Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1909, Page 1723

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November" 7, Sunday.— Twenty-third Sunday after Pente-- " o- ■» COSt. ■' » g» Monday.— Octave of ;.All. Saints. * - 9, Tuesday.— Dedication of the Basilica of St^ in w j j °^ n Lateran , Rome. . . ' " \v S.1 dn f Andrew Avellino, Confessor. 11, Thursday.— St. Martin, Bishop and Confessor. " J?' o r i da ?'~ St Y, Livin us, Bishop and Martyr „ 13, -Saturday .-St.. Nicholas 1., Pope and Confessor.

St. Andrew Avellino, Confessor. tt«--S' And F e ;r wa ? a. native of the kingdom of Naples He gave up the practice of the law in order to devote himself more perfectly to the service of his Divine Vaster* Having entered the Order of-Theatines, healed for many efghVeight P emtefltial life > d^»g 1608, at the a Je 7f Sf. Martin, Bishop aiid Confessor. '" " cJp. i M , artin f Tours > as te-is called from his episcopal^ See, was .born of pagan parent about the year 317 By S6S 6 At'the I.l° V^ £mr n t t e g ra «d-nncle of St Pa? 1 +w+« i- v* ge o/.^gnteen he was baptised, and from SSdniS KISK 1S hfe ' Whlch h l d ahvfl y s been ni &rke d by-m6?3'.. W fr«~ f was singularly successful in causing the ' last traces of paganism to disappear from his diocese * He died in all probability about the year 397 <*'°cese.