Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 8, Sunday.— Sixteenth Sunday after Ptfhte- , cost: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 9, Monday.— St. Kyran, Abbot. „ 10, Tuesday.— St. Hilary, Pope and Confessor. „ 11, Wednesday-.— St. Nicholas of' Tole'ntino, Confessor. „ 12, Thursday. — St. Rose of Lima, Virgin. „ 13, Friday.— St. Sergius 1., Pope and Confessor. 6,, 14, Saturday. — Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. . The Feast of the Nativity of 1 the, Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8. This festival was appointed by Pope Innocent XI., that the faithful may be called upon in a par-ticular 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 protection and numberless mercies. What gave occasion to the institution ■of this feast was a solemn thanksgiving for the relief of Vienna when it was besieged by Turks in 1683. St. Kyran, Abbot. St. Kyran, an Irishman, founded and gave a rule of life to many communities of monks in his native country. He established, among others, the famous Abbey of Clonmacnoise, on. the Shannon. After his death, in 549, he was honored as principal patron of Connaught.