GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 4 February 1909, Page 163

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

February 7, Sunday. — Septuagesima Sunday. „ 8, Monday. — St. John of Matha, Confessor. „ 9, Tuesday.— The Prayer of Our, Lord in the Garden. „ 10, Wednesday. — St. Scholastica, Virgin, „ 11, Thursday.— Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes. „ 12, Friday.— St. Telesphorus, Pope and Martyr. " „ 13, Saturday.— St. Gregory 11., Pope and Confessor. St. John of Matha, Confessor. St. John was born in Provence towards the middle of the twelfth century. Even in boyhood he was remarkable for the perfect manner in which he practised fraternal charity, his chief pleasure being to assist the sick in a neighboring hospital. In conjunction with St. Felix of Valois, he founded the Order of Trinitarians for the ransoming of Christians enslaved by the Moors. lie died in Rome, A.D. 1213. St. Scholastica, Virgin. St. Scholastica was a sister of St. Benedict, and, like him, she embraced the religious life at an early age. She was for several years Superioress of a community of nuns at a convent near to Monte Cassino, where her saintly brother was Abbot. St. Scholastica died about tbe year 543.