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GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEKS CALENDAR : July 13,. Sunday. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost. „ 14, Monday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. „ 15, Tuesday.—St. Henry, Emperor and Confessor „ 16, Wednesday.—Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount -. Carmel. „ 17, Thursday.—St. Leo IV., Pope and Confessor. -„ 18, Friday.St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. „ 19, Saturday.—St. Symmachus, Pope and Confessor. St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Bonaventure was born in the neighborhood of Florence. Having entered the Franciscan Order, and completed his studies, he became professor in the great University of Paris. He was afterwards elected General of his Order, and received from Pope St. Gregory X. the appointment of Cardinal Bishop of Albano. On account of his great learning, St. Bonaventure is numbered amongst the Doctors of the Church. He died in 1274, at the age of 52. In his panegyric, preached by the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, afterwards Pope Innocent V., it is stated of him that ' no man ever beheld him who did not conceive a great esteem and affection for him; and even strangers, by hearing him speak, were inspired with a desire to follow his counsel and advice, for he was gentle, affable, humble, prudent, chaste, and adorned with all virtues.' St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. St. Camillus was a native of the kingdom of Naples.' Having embraced the military profession, he soon found himself reduced by his gambling propensities to the direst distress. Poverty became for him, through the Providence of God, the occasion of his conversion. Thenceforward he devoted himself to the care of the sick and the dying, and for this purpose established a religious Order, the members of which are know as 'Ministers of the Sick.' St. Camillus died in Rome in 1614, at the age of 65. St. Symmachus, Pope and Confessor. St. Symmachus, a native of Sardinia, succeeded Pope Anastasius in 498. His pontificate, which lasted 15 years, was much disturbed by the agitations of the Eutychian heretics.
GRAINS OF GOLD AN EVENING PRAYER. Night is come, O Lord, and I Wearied to my cot do hie; Gracious watch, O Father, keep O'er my pillow whilst I sleep! - • What I did amiss to-day Lay not to my charge, I pray; Jesus' blood and heavenly grace All transgressions can efface. Let my dear ones, Father blest, In Thy hand forever rest; Bless all men, both.great and small; Keep, preserve Thy creatures all. Let Thy moon shed kindly light O'er the quiet earth to-night. — Ave Maria. True wealth consists in health, vigor, and courage, domestic quiet, concord, public liberty, plenty of all that is necessary and contempt of all that is superfluous.Fenelon. Do not believe that happiness makes us selfish; it is a treason to the sweetest gift of life; it is when it has deserted us that it becomes hard to keep all the better things within us from dying in the blight.
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