GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 1 October 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 4, Sunday.— Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Feast of the Holy Rosary. n 5. Monday.— St. Galla, Widow. „ 6, Tuesday.— St. Bruno, Confessor. ,» 7, Wednesday.— St. Mark, Pope and Confessor. „ 8, Thursday. — St. Bridget, Widow. „ 9, Friday. — St. Denis and Companions, Martyrs. „ 10, Saturday.— St. Francis Borgia, Confessor. St. Bruno, Confessor. St. Bruno, founder of the austere Carthusian Order, was born at Cologne about 1030. He was one of the most learned men of his age, and wrote several valuable commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures. He died in 1101, in a monastery which he had established in the mountains of Calabria, in Southern Italy. St. Mark, Pope and Confessor. St. -Mark's youth was passed in Rome, in the closing years of the Pagan persecutions. In 336 he was elected Pope, but held this office only a few months. St. Bridget, Widow. St. Bridget belonged to the royal family of Sweden. From childhood she was remarkable for charity, love of retirement, and a distaste for worldly enjoyments. On the death of her husband she divided her property amongst her children and withdrew into a convent which she herself had founded. She died in Rome in 1373. at the age of 71, on her return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.