Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 36, 3 September 1903, Page 31

Friends at Court

QLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 6, Sunday.— Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. St. Rumold, Martyr. 7, Monday.— St. Eugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. 8, Tuesday— Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 9, Wednesday.— St. Kiaran, Abbot. 10, Thursday.— St. Hilary, Pope and Confessor. 11, Friday.— St. Nicholas, of Tolentino. Confessor. 12, Saturday.— St. Rose, of Lima, Virgin. St. Eugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. St. Eugenius 111. was Pope from 1145 to 1153. Owing to the disturbed state of Rome, Eugenius 111. was consecrated in the monastery of Farfa, and took up his temporary abode at Viterbo. He excommunicated the patrician Jordanes, and finally succeeded in re-establishing Ins authority in Rome. This Pope commissioned St. Bernard to preach the Second Crusade. It was to Pope Eugenius 111. that St. Bernard addressed his « De Consideratione,' in which he stated without disguise what were the duties of chief pastor, and urged the necessities of reform Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8. This festival was appointed by Pope Innocent XL, that the faithful may be called upon in a particular manner to recommend to God, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, the necessities of His Church, and to return to Him thanks tor His gracious protection and numberless mercies. What gave; occasion to the institution of this feast was a solemn thanksgiving for the relief of Vienna when it was beseiged by Turks in 1683. St. Hilary, Pope and Confessor. St. Hilary, the successor of St. Leo, was born at Sardinia, and was Pope from 461 to 467. He was the defender of Bishop Flavian against the Eutychians in the Second Council of Ephesus in 449. St. Rose of Lima, Virgin. St. Rose, who was a religious of the Third Order of St. Dominic, was born at Lima, Peru, South America. She is the patron saint of her native city, and was the first saint of South America.