Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 14, Issue 24, 14 June 1906, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

Jime V« SMS M n «H 7l ~S<h PP T a? chal I-. P °PO and Confessor, " ,«' Mond ay-—St. Isidore Agricola, Cofifessor, " In' lU(;Sda^l U(;Sda^~ St ' Juliana Falconieri, Virgin. " ??-' Wednesday.-St. Silverius, Pope and fctyr, " Si* yy ii H rsiday--°cta\e of Corpus Christi. „ 22, Friday.—Feast of the Sacred Heart. „ 23, Saturday—Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians. St. Paschal 1., Pope and Confessor. St. Paschal became Pope in 817, and during a pontificate of nearly eight years he manifested great energy in buil-diflg churches, hospices, and convents," and in restoring and beautifying • the sacred edifices which already existed. He was also solicitous in providing for the wants of the Greek Christians whom the persecutions of the Iconoclasts had driven from the East. St. Isidore, Confessor. St. Isidore was a farm lahcrer Jiear Madrid, ignorant of worldly knowledge, .but learned ift the science oE the saints. He sanctified his lai^o-r by continual prayer, but nover allowed his devotions to impede Ihe fulfilment of the duties which he owed to his master, lie died in 1170, at the age of 60. St. Juliana Falconieri, Virgin. St. Juliana was aftati\6 of Florence. Having, while still a child, lost her father, sfee foufcd a second' father in her uncle, St. Alexis Falconieri, one of the founders of tho Servite Order. She is celebrated for ijer 'devotion to tile Adorable Sacrament of the Aitar, ar*d to the Mother of God, Like so many other saints, she was singularly success/ul in, reconcil.ns enemies a«di recl'aiiHuing sinners. She died at an advanced age in 1340. St. Silverius, Poj-c ftfd Martyr. St, SilverHs, by his refusal to favor the EutyehiaiS heretics, excited the enmity of the Empress. Theodora, who procured his banishment to Patris, in Asia, Minor*. He owed his release to the efforts of the Bi&hwp <«>f thtf place, who remonstrated with the Emperor JuS>twiian» over the indignity offered to the Vicar of Christ. There" are,' he urged, ' many kings in the world, but only t>ts& Pope over the Church of the whole woild.' Having agal» fallen into the nands of his enemies, St. Silveriua died from haid usage, or,- according to some, was put to a \iolent death, A.D. 538. Feast of the Sacred Heart. After many devout 'souls had venerated the Sacred Heart of Jusus, with sincere devoticn, in the solitude of quietJ life, cur Divine Saviour willed that His heart's infinite love should be recognised by all men, and be enkindled in cold hearts by a new fire of lo\e. Foot this end He made use of a fceLle, 'obscure instrument, thatl all the world might kno,w, lhat the devotion oi His loving heart, pie iously almost entirely unknown, was His own work. This instrument, disregarded by the world, was oie who shone before God in all the radiance of the most sublime virtues, the nun, Margaret Alacoque, of the Order of the Visitation of Mary, at Paray,, in Burgundy.