Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 39, 5 October 1922, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. October 8, Sunday.—Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, „ 9, Monday.SS. Denis and Companions, Martyrs. „ .10, Tuesday. Francis Borgia, Confessor. „ 11, Wednesday.—Of the Feria. , ~ 12, Thursday.— the Feria. „ 13, Friday.—St. Edward, King and Confessor. - „ 14, Saturday. — St. Callistus, Pope and Martyr. ' W St. Denis and Companions, Martyrs. St. Denis, the first Bishop of, Paris, and one of the most illustrious writers of the early Church, is believed to have been identical with Denis the Areopagite, converted by St. Paul. He was martyred, with several companions, on the hill of Montmartre, in Paris, <abqut the year 119. St, Edward the Confessor. St. Edward after spending his youth in exile, was 1 crowned King of England in 1042. Though by his piety and simplicity he seemed better suited for a cloister than a court, yet the kingdom. of England was never more blessed than during his reign. He had no other desire than to see his people happy, and they, for their part, loved him as a just and generous ruler, while they revered him as a saint. St. Edward died in 1066. St. Callistus, Pope and Martyr. The Pontificate of St. Callistus, which began in 217, terminated in 222 by the martyrdom of this holy Pontiff. A detailed account of his sufferings has not come down to us, but it is probable that he lost his life in a popular uprising during the reign of Alexander Severus.