Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 31

Friends at Court

QLEANINOS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR October 1, Sunday —Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Ros"aiy Sunday „ 3, Monday.— St. Galla, Widow. 6, Tuesday.— St. Bruno, Confessor. 7, Wednesday —St. Mark, Pope and Confessor. 8, Thursday.— St. Bridget, Widow. „ 9, Friday.— Sl. Dionysius and Companions, Martyrs. „ 10, Saturday.— St. "Francis Borgia, Confessor. Rosary Sunday On the first Sunday of October, 1571, was fought the great battle of Lepado, which sa\ed Europe from the Turks, and gave a death blow to the Ottoman power. In memory ot this victoiy, gained at the very moment when the faithlul were" reciting the Rosary lor the success of the Chnstian arms, Gregory XIII. oidcicd the present festival to be ce!ebi t ited St. Bruno, Confessor St Bruno, of Cologne, was the founder of the Caithusian Order. With six companions, Bruno retired into the desert ot Chartreuse, near Grenoble, France, and laid the foundation ot his new order. This was in lOSB Following the Benedictine Rule, the Carthusians were famed for tne severity of their discipline They lead a contemplate c lne, and de\ ote a portion of then time to manual labor Bruno was summoned to Rome by Pope Irban It , who had been his pupil. \lter founding two new c unents m Calabna, he died m IKU Gui^o, the first Pnu oi the I liaitieuse, made a compilation of t he customs and statutes ohserved by (he Carthusians The Catthusian nuns originated about 1230, and, with some modifications, tonow the rules of the Cait.hu si an monks. S1 Maik, Pope and Confessor. St Mark, who was elected Pope in 333, was a Roman by bulh He published a decree eonfeinng upon the Bishop oi Ostia the c\clusi\e i ic.li t to conseciale the Soxeieign Pontin. St Budget ol Sweden, Widow St Budget, the foundiess of an Order of religious, was bom about the yeai 131)2 ot the loyal family of Sweden The state ol nuruagc which she einbiaeed by the .white oi her patents did not <ausc her to lose her iei\oi loi ihe pious exercises she had shown from her tendeiest \eais Alter luwing become a widow (1343) she c onset i ated Ihum'U entneU to woiks ol charity and to evuises ot putv, and tounded the Monastery of WatlstL-na (1311) on "the slioies ol Lake \ ettern The Oidei was copfnmid, undei the title oi 'Order of the Sawoiu,' hj I iban V , in 137(1 The leligious followed i be tule oi St Angus l me and tlie paitieular constitutions which their holy loundiess is said to ha\e received b\ cli\ me ie\elo.li e\ elo.l ion .St Dion\ sins, Mail} i St Diomsius, who was the Hist Bishop of Paris, li\cd in (lie second hall ot the thud centuiy By the I'd set ut ion (A the Christians under Septimus Severus, m winch St lienaeis suntued maiUidom in 202, the (.lunch m Gaul had become teiribly devastated. Hereupon Pope Fabian sent se\ en new missionaries (ecclesiastifal Instoiians generally call Hum bishops) to gather the sc alt cued laithtul and tound new churches .St Diolu^ius was one of these se\en apostolic men, and he lounded upon an island in the Seme a bishopnc God la<l bestowed upon him the gilt of miiaeles, and he con\eiled many idolatois and finally built a church Our Saint suflcired marUidom, it ap]>ears, under the Valerian pcusecution (some claim finder that of f Maximian Hercules) The legend sa\ s that St Dionysius, after having been beheaded, earned" his own head to the place where they then buiied him Later on a chapel was built over his" tomb, and this was enlarged by St Genovefa (469) into <i church