GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 27 February 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

March 1, Sunday.— Quinquagesima Sunday. „ 2, Monday.— : St. Simplicius, Pope and Confessor. „ 3, Tuesday.— The Seven Holy Founders. „ 4, Wednesday.— Ash Wednesday. „ 5, Thursday.— St. Casimir, Confessor. „ 6, Friday.— St. B'ridolin, Abbot. „ 7, Saturday.— St. Thomas of Aquin, Confessor and Doctor. The Seven Holy Founders. These were seven noblemen of Florence, who in tihe thirteenth century renounced the pleasures and honors which lay within their reach, and embraced th& religious life. They founded an Order of monks, popularly known as Servites, or Servants of Mary, having as principal patron the Blessed Virgin, under the title of ' Mother of Sorrows.' Ash Wednesday. The first Wednesday in Lent is called Ash Wednesday from the Catholic ceremony of blessing ashes, and placing them on the foreheads of the clergy and laity as a sign of penance. St. Casimir, Confessor. Poland honors, as its patron, St. Casimir, second son of the King of that country. He learned from pious preceptors, to practise austerities, which contrasted/ remarkably with the luxury arid splendor, of his father's court. He »died in 1482, at the age of twenty-four, and is proposed tto the young as the model of every virtue.