GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1909, Page 1083

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

July 18, Sunday. — Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. „ 19, Monday. — St. Symmachus, Pope and Confessor. „ 20, Tuesday. — St. Jerome Emilian, Confessor. „ 21, Wednesday.;— St. Alexius, Confessor. „ 22, Thursday. — St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent. „ 23, Friday. — St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr. „ 24, Saturday. — St. Vincent de Paul, Confessor. St. Camillus of Lellis, Confessor. St. Camillus was a native of the kingdom of Naples. Having embraced the military profession, he soon found himself reduced by his gambling propensities to the direst distress. Poverty became for him, through the providence of God, the occasion of his conversion. Thenceforward lie devoted himself to the care of the sick and the dying, and for this purpose established a religious Order, the members of which are known as ' Ministers of the Sick.' St. Camillus died in Rome in 1614, at the age of 65. St. Symmachus, Pope and Confessor. St. Symmachus, a native of Sardinia, succeeded Pope Anastasius in 498. His pontificate, which lasted 15 years, was much disturbed by the agitations of the Eutychian heretics.