Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 26, 5 July 1923, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR. July 8, Sunday.—Seventh Sunday after, Pentecost. „ .9, Monday.-—Of the Feria. „ 10, Tuesday.— Brothers, Martyrs. -„ 11, Wednesday. —Blessed Oliver Plunket, Bishop and |pPl|iß >/• "• Martyr, lb. ~ 12, Thursday.St. John Gualbert, Abbot. Qk ~ 13, Friday. — St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr* „ 14, Saturday.—St. Bonaventure, Bishop. ; - - ¥ The Seven Brothers, Martyrs. The seven saints whose glorious death is commemorated to-day were sons of . St. Felicitas, and suffered at Rome : about the middle of the second century. They were exhorted to constancy in suffering by their heroic mother, who herself soon after received the crown of martyrdom. - St. John Gualbert, Abbot, St. John was born at Florence of noble parents in 999. Like many of the class to which he belonged, he grew up imbued with a pride which Mould neither brook opposition nor allow any injury to pass unavenged. Having, however, on one occasion, in obedience to the promptings of Divine Grace, forgiven a defenceless enemy, this exercise of Christian charity proved the beginning of his complete conversion. He entered a Benedictine monastery, and afterwards founded the famous abbey and Order of Vallombrosa. He died in 1073. St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. St, Anacletus, the second successor of St. Peter, was martyred under Trajan about the beginning of the second century.