GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1909, Page 1

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

July 11, Sunday. — Sixth "Sunday after Pentecost. St. Pius 1., Pope "and Martyr. „ 12, Monday. — St. John Gualbert, Abbot. „ 13, Tuesday. — St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. „ 14, Wednesday. — St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. „ 15, Thursday. — St. Henry, Emperor and Confessor. „ 16, Friday. — Commemoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. „ 17, Saturday. — St. Leo IV., Pope and Confessor. St. Pius 1., Pope and Martyr. Aquileia, in Northern Italy, was the birthplace of St. Pius, who occupied the Chair of Peter from 142 to 157. According to some writers, he was beheaded; according to others, "his death was- the result of hardships endured for the Faith. St. John Gualbert, Abbot. St. John was born at Florence of noble parents in 999. Like many of the class to which he belonged, he grew up imbued with a pride which would neither brook opposition nor allow any injury to pass unavenged. Having, however, on one occasion, in obedience to the promptings of Divine Grace, forgiven a defenceless enemy, this exercise of Christian charity proved the beginning of his complete conversion. He entered a Benedictine monastery, and afterwards founded the famous abbey and Order of Vallombrosa. He died in 1073. St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. St. Anacletus, the second successor of St. Peter, was martyred under Trajan about the beginning of the second century.