FRIENDS AT COURT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 32, 26 August 1925, Page 3

FRIENDS AT COURT

i A GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S '• 'V, CALENDAR. Aug. 30, ,Sun.—Thirteenth Sunday after 0- ..■■■ Pentecost. f =. v 31, Mon. —St. Raymond Nonnatus, ■ Confessor A - . Sept. 1, Tues. —St. Giles, Abbot. ~ 2, Wed.— Stephen, King and Con- . ■ ■ . fessor. ;>|A. „ 3, Thurs.Of the Feria, J,, 4, Frid.—Of the Feria,. fill!» 5, Sat.St. Laurence Justinian, BiA A .-j. " . shop and Confessor. M'V- : A K ■ArV|A|‘J?t. Laurence Justinian, Bishop and ConlA.1 A. • fessor. . .. . St. Laurence Justinian was first Patriarch Is-tv of Venice, in which city he was born in 1381. jvAHe was General of the Canons-Regular of St. George; Bishop,of Venice (1433), Patriarch (1451). He built at Venice 10 churches and several monasteries. He died in the year 1456. His beatification was ratified by o.Clement VII in 1524, and he was canonised in 1690 by Alexander VIII. •\ St. f Stephen, King and Confessor. A St. Stephen, first King of Hungary, was A A born in the year 979. His first act, on ascending the throne in 997, was to unite himf'! self to Latin Christendom. By his marriage with Gisela, the sister of Emperor Henry 11, he became closely connected with Catholic Germany, whose civilisation lie sought, by A every means, to introduce among his subV; jects. Assisted by German and Bohemian -■ | priests, Stephen succeeded in extending the < Qhristian religion over the whole Kingdom; throughout the land churches and monas;v//teries rose. His religious zeal gained him V;A the title of “Apostolic King” from Pope rj( Sylvester 11, with the right of having the V' cross borne before him. He died in the year 1038. ||; GRAINS OF GOLD pi A PASSPORT. rA; ; My mother taught my childish lips to say • Whose child I was and where my dwelling e V place, ‘ To tell, she said, to the first friendly face, If ever I should chance to go astray. '4sj ■. And once when I had wandered far away, • /.Aj, And could no more my truant steps retrace, 1 ' '* Back to my longing , mother’s warm. embrace .A; One led me by that clue at close of day, “We must lie children once again,” saith ,>/A. He -A ;'“Whose Word is- life’s high law; so when I i&jw ■ ....... . . : A / Out of the narrow way and stand in need, SLest I be lost forever, I will plead: . I “My mother’s name is Mary,' and my home gCfrL where she lives' in, Heaven, and looks for \ me.” v j-; .. —John Fitzpatrick, 0.M.1.