Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 7 February 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

QLEANINQS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

* / - February 10,, Su.nd.ay.— QuMtiuagesinra * Sunday. 1 „ 11, Monday.— St. Antherus, Pope and Martyr. „ 12, Tuesday^— St: _Telesphorus; "" Pope and' Martyr. - ' „ 13, Wednesday.— Ash Wednesday. „ 14, Thursday. — St. Agatho, Pope and Confessor. „ 15, Friday.— The' -Crown of Thorns. „ ](>, Saturday.— St. Gregory X., Pope and Convfessor. St. Telesphorus f/ ,Pope and Martyr. St.. Tclesphorus was Pope from 127 to 138. He was a Greek by birth,, an anchorite of Mount Carmel, became the successor of Sixtus '1., and died a martyr in Rome under Hadrian. He instituted the practice of saying three Masses on Christmas- Day, ~ \ ~ St. Agatho, Pope and" Confessor. St. Agatho, was born at Palermo, Sicily. His legates I presided at t!he sixth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople), which condemned Monothelism^n the year 680, and which had assembled at- the request of Constantine IV. (Pogonatusj, to whom the Pope had written a remarkable letter to refute the new heresy. St. Gregory X. , St. Gregory X. was Pope from 1272-1276. No sooner had he ascended the Apostolic Chair than he' summoned the Fourteenth Ecumenical Council, which met at Lyons'^ in 1274. The declared objects of the Council were : succor to the Holy Land, the reconciliation of the Greek Church, and reformation of morals. The council opened with great solemnity, the Pope himself officiating. For the succor of the Holy Land, a .tenth, of all eccle^ siastical revenues was voted for six years. In the fourth session, the re-union of the Greek Church with the Latin was solemnised ; and the Council, besides, passed 32 canons regulating the discipline of the Church, and providing for the reformation of morals. -Also -a new constitution providing for the speedy and concordant, election of a Roman Pontiff received the approbation of tho Council.