GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 5 November 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 8, Sunday. — Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost. Octave of, All Saints. „ 9, Monday. — Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. „ io, Tuesday. — St. Andrew Avellino, Confessor. „ *ii, Wednesday. — St. Martin, Bishop "and Confessor. „ 12, Thursday. — St. Livinus, Bishop and Martyr. „ . 13, Friday. — St. Nicholas 1., Pope and Confessor. „ • 14, Saturday. — St. Lawrence, Bishop and Confessor. Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. This- church is commonly known as the Basilica of St. John Lateran. It is the Cathedral of Rome, and was the first of the great basilicas consecrated to Divine worship after the accession of Constantine had given peace to the Chucch. St. Andrew Avellino, Confessor. St. Andrew was a native of the "kingdom of Naples. He gave up the practice of the law in order to devote himself more perfectly to the service of his Divine Master. Having entered" the Order of Theatines, he , led for many years a most penitential life, dying in 1608, at«rthe age of eighty-eight.