FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 16, 6 May 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

GLEANINGS 'FOR NEXT WEEK'S * -x V ' CALENDAR. Mas^jiffcSun.-—Fourth Sunday after Easter. „ 11, Mon.— the. Feria. _ - ; . ;^';'■■'»; 12, Tues.— SS. Nereus and Achilleus, ■if\ ,' Martyrs. ' Y .'•'" - „ 13, Wed.—Of the Feria. .\ .'V X\ „ 14, Thurs.—St. Boniface, Martyr. ;f::,;»'»; 15, Frid.—St. John Baptist de la p| .'.'-)': : Salle, Confessor. ; - ,." 16, Sat.— Sat.—St.' . IJbaldus,. Bishop and Confessor. ..- '% SS. Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs. ;:; These holy martyrs were attached to the' service "of St. Flavia Domitilla, and were :-banished with her to the island of Pontia ; by the Emperor Domitian. They were be- | headed at Terracina in the reign of Trajan. ;'": v St.' John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor. This paint was born in France in 1651. Even before his ordination he took a keen V* interest 'in the education of children, a work for which he was naturally fitted, and to I which he afterwards entirely devoted himself. He was the founder of : the Institute of the .Brothers of the Christian Schools. . , : St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. '•'. St. Übaldus was born near Ancona, in the Papal States. Consecrated Bishop of G.ubio, he adorned that high dignity with all the virtues of a true successor, of the Apos--Itl\£3-,. ..He died in 1160, after an episcopate ;of thirty years.