CLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 243

CLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

February 21, Sunday. —Quinquagesima Sunday. „ 22, Monday.—The Chair of St. Peter at Antioch. „ 23, Tuesday.—St. Peter Damian, Bishop, Confes- ' sor, and Doctor. s „ 24, Wednesday. —Ash Wednesday. „ 25, Thursday.—St. Felix 111., Pope and Confessor. „ . 26, Friday. —The Crown of Thorns. „ 27, Saturday.—St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Peter Damian, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Peter was born at Ravenna, "in the north of Italy, about 988. After a youth of hardship, he entered a Benedictine monastery at the foot of the Apennines, where for many years he led a life of austerity, prayer, and study. - His great piety and learning having brought him under the notice of his ecclesiastical superiors, he was employed by more than one Pope in important affairs, and displayed great zeal and prudence. In 1057 he was created Cardinal and Bishop of Ostia, but, five years later, he succeeded m obtaining permission to resign his bishopric and return to his monastery. His death occurred in 1072. St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria; was the champion of the Church against the heretic Nestorius, who, in denying to the Blessed Virgin the title of Mother of God, subverted the doctrine of the Incarnation. As legate and representative of Popo Celestine, he opened the General Council of Ephesus in 431, in which the Nestorian heresy was condemned. He was called to his. reward thirteen, years later in A.D. 444. '