Friends at Court GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 5 August 1909, Page 1203

Friends at Court GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

August 8, Sunday. — Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. Commemoration of the Holy Roman Pontiffs. „ 9, Monday. — St. Emygdius, Bishop and Martyr. „ 10, Tuesday. — St. Lawrence, Martyr. „ 11, Wednesday.— St. Sixtus 11., Pope and Martyr. „ 12, Thursday.— St. Clare, Virgin. „ 13, Friday. — St. Philomena, Virgin and Martyr. „ 14, Saturday. — St. Hormisdas, Pope and Confessor. Past Day., St. Sixtus 11., Pope and Martyr. St. Sixtus, a Greek by birth, ruled the Church for about a year. He was beheaded three days before St. Lawrence, in 258. St. Clare, Virgin. St. Clare of Assisi, who renounced wealth and rank to embrace the religious state, was remarkable for her lore of poverty and her devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She became, under the direction of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of a very strict religious Order, the members ii which practised the most rigorous austerities. She died in her 60th year, A.D. 1253.