GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 28 January 1909, Page 123

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

January 31, Sunday. —Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor. February 1, Monday.—St. Bfigid-, Virgin and Patroness „ of Ireland. „ 2, Tuesday. —Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 8, Wednesday. —St. Denis, Pope and Confessor. „ 4, Thursday. —St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop, and Confessor. „ 5, Friday. —St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. -- „ 6, Saturday. —St. Hyacinth Mariscotti, Virgin. St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor. This saint was a native of France. He founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the ransom of Christians enslaved by the Moors, and to this object he devoted the considerable property which he had" inherited from his father. He died on Christmas Day, 1256, 'in the sixtyseventh year of his age. ' St. Brigid, Virgin and Patroness of Ireland. St. Brigid, known as 'the Mary of Ireland,' lived in the beginning of the sixth century. Having "in her youth received the religious veil from St. Mcl, the nephew of St. Patrick, she founded a convent at Kildare, which attracted to itself numbers of maidens anxious to consecrate themselves to God. From Kildare other houses were founded, all of which recognised St. Brigid as their head. Her remains were laid beside those-of St. Patrick and St. Columba in the Cathedral of Downpatrick, in a magnificent monument, which was destroyed in the reign of Henry VIII.