Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 14 April 1921, Page 3

Friends at Court

CLEANINGS FOR : NEXT .WEEK’S CALENDAR. April 17, : Sunday.—Third Sunday after Easter. ~ 18, Monday. the Octave. | ~ 19, Tuesday.—Of the Octave. . •,, 20, Wednesday. Octave of St. Joseph. „ ~ 21, Thursday. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor, * \ and Doctor. ~ 22, Friday.—Sß. Soter and Cajus, Popes and • •v, ; ...... Martyrs. ■ .• /j ~, 23, Saturday.—-St. George, Martyr. SS. Soter and Caius, Popes and Martyrs. • We know very little of these two Pontiffs except €he manner of their'deaths. St. Soter won the crown of martyrdom in 177; St. Caius, after many sufferings for the Faith, died in- 296, in the reign of Diocletian, whose kinsman he was. St. George, Martyr. « St. George has been recognised as patron of England since the time of the Crusades. Unfortunately,, no authentic details of his life have come down to us. He is believed to have been a soldier, and to have suffered martyrdom about 303. In emblem of the victory he thus gained over the Evil One, he is often represented in pictures as a knight tilting against a dragon. ' . St. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St, Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born rat Aosta, Italy, in 1033. William 11., during a dangerous illness, resolved to restore the estates which he had taken from < the different churches; and urged by his nobles he nominated the learned Anselm, Abbot ■of Bee in Normandy, to the See of Canterbury. Only ■on the King’s promise to resign the temporalities belonging to the See of Canterbury, to follow his counsels in things spiritual, and to acknowledge Urban 11. •as rightful Pope, did Anselm at last consent to receive /consecration in 1093. But when restored to health, ■the 'King, by his renewed rapacity and despotism, soon ■gave much trouble to the new Primate. The refusal to acknowledge Urban 11, and permit Anselm to receive the pallium from the Pontiff, led to a complete rupture. In his struggle with the King, Anselm was forsaken by the bishops, whilst the nobles of the realm •earnestly supported him. Shortly after William acknowledged .Urban K and was reconciled with Anselm. But fresh, aggression compelled Anselm to have recourse to th<T Holy See. , He set out for Rome in 1097 and was received by Urban with signal marks of respect, but His resignation the Pope refused to accept. While in Italy Anselm took part in the Councils of Lateran and Bari. ; Anselm remained in voluntary exile, living chiefly at Lyons, till the year 1100 when upon - the sudden ■ death of William ' and the accession Pf Henry I.' he returned to England. Difficulties again were placed in the way of Anselm, by the new King. Anselm went into, exile a second time. Action was taken by. Pope. Paschal 11. . against Henry and the yenal prelates who had received investure from the King. At last the good services of Henry’s sister Adela, led to a compromise. . Anselm returned to England in 1106, and henceforth lived in peace till his death in 1109. Anselm is regarded as the earliest of the scholastic theologians, and is sometimes called the “Father of Scholasticism \ REFLECTIONS. r ' \ ma y be clasped so close we cannot see its face. —irench. -'..rt-.. __ • . When Jesus Christ thought of the misfortunes which so closely menaced Jerusalem and the Jewish people, He could not restrain his tears.Bossuet. ■ i/v- Beware of 1 envy and .you will have avoided a . great pitfall which engulfs too many good people. For •-a; secret envy in its -thousand disguises is too- apt to be the vice of the good. ; !