GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 29, Sunday.— First Sunday in Advent. -. >» 30, Monday.— St. Andrew, Apostle. December 1, Tuesday.— St. Didacus, Confessor. 2, Wednesday.— St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. 3. Thursday.— St. Francis Xavier, Confessor. 4, Friday.— St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Confessor" and Doctor. 5, Saturday.— St. Martin, Pope and Martyr.. St. Didacus, Confessor. St. pidacus, a native of Andalusia, entered as a lav brother the Order of Friars Minor. He was remarkable for a tender love of our Blessed Lord, a love which he fostered by continual meditation on the Passion, and which was specially manifested by his intense devotion when receiving the Blessed Eucharist. St. Didacus died in 1463. - St. Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. St. Bibiana was the daughter of a Roman noble named Flavian who h.mself gave his life for the Faith. The confiscation of her property, with its consequent privations, having failed to shake her constancy in the profession of Christianity, she was subjected to cruel tortures, and finally scourged to death,