GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR
September 2, Sunday.— Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. 3, Monday .—St. Elizabeth, Queen. 4, Tuesday.— St. Rose of Viterbo, Virgin. 5, Wednesday .—St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor. G, Thursday.— St. Rumold, Martyr. 7, Friday.— St. Eugene 111., Pope and Confessor. ' 8, Saturday.— Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. __ St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor. St. Lawrence Justinian, who was the first Patriarch of Venice, was b.oin in that city about the year 1380. He was General of the Canons Regular of the Congregation of St. George, was appointed Bishop of Venice in 1433, ami Patriarch in 1451. He built at Venice ten churches and several momasteries. St. Rumold, Bishop and Martyr. St. Rumold, Bishop of Dublin, returning from a visit to the tomb of the Apostles, interrupted his journey at Malines, in Belgium. During his stay he preached with much fruit in that city and its neighborhood, and was qvontually assassinated b\y a man whose notorious crimes he had not hesitated, in the interests of morality, to severely stigmatise. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Maiy. The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8. This festival was appointed hy Pope Innocent XI., that the fait'hfrul n>lay 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 for His gracious piotcction and numberless mercies. What ga\e occasion io "the institution of this feast was a solemn thanksgiving for live relief of Vienna when it was besieged by TuiLs in IGB3.
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New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 3
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269GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 3
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