Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 9 May 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

May 12, Sunday.— Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension. „ 13, Monday.— St. Stanislaus, Bishop arid Martyr. „ 14, Tuesday.— St. Ca'thage, Bishop and Confessor. „ 15, Wednesday.— St. Dympna, Virgin and Martyr. „ 16, Thursday.— Octave of the Ascension. „ 17, Friday.— St. John Nepomucene, Martyr. „ 18, Saturday.— Vigil of Pentecost.— Day of Fasting. St. Carthage, Bishop and Confessor. St. Carthage was the first Bishop of Lismore, in the South of Ireland. He founded there a monastery and a school, which became so famous that v scholars fioctoed to it from, all parts of Ireland and Great Britain. St. Dympna, Virgin and Martyr. St. Dympna was the daughter of an Irish chieftain. Having vowed her virginity to God, she fled to Belgium to 'esieaipe the snares to which- she saw herself exposed at home. She was followed, however, and put to death tyyi those to wham her virtue had rendered her hateful. St. John Nepomucene., Martyr. St. John Nepomucene, patront of Bohemia, was born at Nepomuk between IMD'-o.Q. Having become a priest, he refused three bishoprics and accepted only a canonicate of Prague. Refusing, to reveal to KingWenceslaus the secret of confession of Queen Joane, his wife, whose fidelity the King suspected, he was thrown into prison, then, drowned in the MoWau, March 20, 1393. He was canonised by Pope Benedict XIII. in 1729.