South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-29
OCTOBER MEANS
EIGHTH MONTH
BY the SaxonS It Was Known
as the "Wine MONTH";
Saints Day For the Week.

The following are the saints DAYS
for the coming week: Sunday, Sept
IS, Eustochium. virgin, 41s; Lioba,
abbess. 779; Wenceslaus, duke Of Bo-
hernia, martyr, s3S. Sept %. Mich
ael and all the holy angels. Sept.
30. Jerome Of Aquileia, doctor of the
church. 400: Gregory. apostle of Ar
mcnia, b. gining OF the fourth cen
tury. Oct 7. festival Of the rosary;
Oct .. feast II the holy angel guard
JAMS oct. 8. Diouysius the AreopaS
ito. bishop of Athens, martyr. FIRST
century. Gerard abbot 953. oct q,
Francis of Assist. founder II the frtar
minors 1926.
October IS So called from being the
eighth month lu the year according
ro the old Alban or Latin calendar.
INC was slyed by the SaNous WyDmou-
9Th German Vein mCnaO. Of the
wine month II allusion to this cpl
tlet an old writer remarks: And
albeit they had not anciently wines
made IN Germany. yet in this season
mad they then brought from divers
countries adjoining"
Oct. % the sun enters the sign
said TO typify the increasing power
Of cold over nature In the same man
ner as the equal influence of cold and
heat are represented by Libra, or
the balance, the sign of the preceding
month Of September.
The rosary as is we'll known, is. in
the Roman Catholic church, a series
of prayers, consisting Of 10 Pater-
Nosters (Our Father and $50 Ave
Marias (Hail Mary,) which, for the
convenience OF worshipers, are count
ed on a string of beads. Each Of
such strings Of beads consists of Is
decades. each of which decades con-
tains one Pater Noster. marked by a
large bead, and ten Ave Marias,
marked by ten smaller beads.
The festival Of the rosary was in
stituted TO implore the divine favor of
the church and all the faithful and
10 return thanks for the benefits con-
ferred on them.
More especially was this done be-
cause of the great victory of Lepanto
over the Turks in 1871. This success
believed to have been obtained
through the Intervention OF the Virgin
Mary, who is so especially invoked
in the devotion of the rosary, was
ordered by Pope Plus V TO be an
nuaIly commemorated under the title
OF ST Mary de Victoria.
This epithet was, however. changed
by his successor. Gregory Kill. into
the title of the Festival of the Ros-
ary." The victory of Prince Eugene
over the Turks at Belgrade in 1915
was ordered by Clement XII. to be
included in the benefits which this
office specially commentaries.
Francis, "the gentle and the holy, ;"
was born in 1882 in the romantic
Italian village of Assist in Umbria.
His sympathy with nature was very
keen. He spoke OF birds and beasts
with all the tenderness due to chill
dren and the only malediction after
his wild youth ever heard to proceed
from his lips, was against fierce
hog which had killed a lamb. He had
an especial fondness for lambs and
larks as emblems of the Redeemer
and the Cherubim.
In one of his hymns he speaks of
his brother the sun, his sister the
moon, his brother the wind, his sis
ter the water When dying he said,
Welcome, sister death" While in
prayer II is said he often fioated in
the air Leo, his secretary and con-
lessor. testified that he had raised
above the ground so high that he
could only touch his feet, which he
(Leo) held and watered with his
tears; and that sometimes he saw
Francis raised much higher.