Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, 19 July 1906, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINQS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

•July 22, Sunday.— Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. St. „_ _ Mary Magdalen, Penitent. v " o,' Mond ay-— St. Apollina-is, Bishop and Martyr. " nt Tuesday.— St. Vincent dc Paul, Confesaor. ' L ir Wednesday.— St. James, Apostle. „ -fr, Thursday.— St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed 9^ „ . Virgin Mary. " Vo * ndav .-— St. Veronica Juliana-, Virgin. .. «, Saturday.— St. Victor 1., Pope and Martyr. St. Innocent 1., Pope and Confessor. SS. Nazariua and Celsus, Martyrs. St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent. Of the few who stood by the Cross o f our Blessed Redeemer one was Mary Magdalen, a woman who, prei\(lous to her conversion, had lived a worldly, if not a sinful life. An old tradition stales that after the Ascension she went to France, where she spent many years of solitude and austerity. She is held up to us by the Church as the model of a pc feet penitent. St. Apolhnaris, Bishop and Martyr. St. Apollinaris, first Bishop of Ravenna, and according to tradition, a disciple of. St. Peter, suffered martrydom during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, in the first century. St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. St. Vincent de Paul was born in 1576. -The indications of abiiity which he exhibited led to his being sent to school at Taulouse. lie was admitted to priest's orders in IGOO. He laid the foundation of what eventually grew into a great and influential Congregation of ' Priests of the Missions.' Vincent's preaching was of the most simple Kind, singularly effective- and 1 progressive. He founded the Order of the 'Daughters ott Chanty ' at Paris in 1«34. The Older is popularly known by the title O f ' The Sisters of Charity ' or -rey Nuns' audits members ha\ c won for their Order as well as themselves the admiration, esteem, and-well-deserved praise of all nations for their gentle ministration fc to the sick and afllictrd during times of war and p-aee. St. \ mccnt died at the advanced arc o f 85 at ClemJff Til SSS S l 1737? r "' 'Md WM ff ™ lßed by St. James, Apostle. St. James was a brother of St. John the Evangelist, and a near relative of the Blessed Virgin. After Pentecost he preached to the Jews, who, having left Judca had found homes in the neighboring countries According to a very ancient tradition he is said to have voyaged to Spain, which honors him as its principal patron Coming to Jerusalem in 43, St. James waa apprehended' and beheaded by order of King Aerip-a who St°os' i the I "hSTan <!s! s. I>O!>l " arUy " K)I " ! lhe J ™V perseSt. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Masy. St. Anne is proposed to the faiihful as a perfect model of a wife and mother, and as special patron oi those ?pd°™T/L nt * red in , tO the niarried state - or entrusted with the care of children. St. Veronica Juliana, Virgin. St. Veronica was a native of Mercatelli, a town i n Italy. Hawng become a nun, she led during fifty years a hie of extraordinary mortification and perfect obedience. She died in 1727. SS. Victor L, Innocent 1., Nazarius and Celsus. »» £1 1 5 es ? sa !£ ts S . t - Victor . an African, was martyred in 202, during, the reign of Septimus Severus. St. Inno- . cent governed the Church from 4U2 to 417 ; SS. Nazarius ,ans, a ns i SUS sealed lhcir failh wilh their bl °od' at Milan under Nero*. _ ■