St. Martha, Virgin

New Zealand Tablet, 26 July 1906, Page 3

St. Martha, Virgin

St. Martha was the sister of Lazarus whom Christ raised from the dead. The family resided at Bethany, near Jerusalem, where they received frerfuent visits from our Blessed Lord. According to a French traditiom, Lazarus became first Bishop of Marseilles while the tombs of Martha and her sister Mary are still venerated in Provence. St. Ignatius of Loyola, Confessor. St. Ignatius was bom at the casfle of Loyola in the north of Spain. He was fi-st a soldier, but feeling himself called" to a more perfect life, he becan at the age of 33, to study Latin, with the object of becoming a priest. He completed his studies at the University of Paris, where he gained the affection of several young students who were afterwards the first members of the religious Order which he founded and which is Known as the Society of Jesus St' UTiS II? &£*!, ■?££»• and hM «■« »"■>- "»» St. Peter's Chains. f Il liS i e^ b ? om niemorates the miraculous deliverance rLt k J fro r m T the Pris °n into which he had been ?f»L 7 f"?^ Of - Ki r ? Herod A* ri PP*- The circumstances ot this miracle are narrated by St Luke in the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles '