The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July

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_Only Complete and Unabridged Edition with nearly 100 pages of Chronological and General Index, Alphabetical and Centenary Table, etc._

THE LIVES OF THE FATHERS, MARTYRS, AND OTHER PRINCIPAL SAINTS;

COMPILED FROM

ORIGINAL MONUMENTS, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC RECORDS;

ILLUSTRATED WITH THE

REMARKS OF JUDICIOUS MODERN CRITICS AND HISTORIANS.

BY THE REV. ALBAN BUTLER.

_With the approbation of MOST REV. M. A. CORRIGAN, D.D., Archbishop of New York._

VOL. VII.

NEW YORK: P. J. KENEDY, PUBLISHER TO THE HOLY SEE, EXCELSIOR CATHOLIC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 5 BARCLAY STREET. 1908

CONTENTS.

JULY.

1.

St. Rumold, Bishop and Martyr SS. Julius and Aaron, Martyrs St. Theobald, Confessor St. Gal, Bishop Another St. Gal, Bishop St. Calais, Abbot St. Leonorus, Bishop St. Simeon St. Thierri, Abbot St. Cybar, Recluse

2.

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin SS. Processus and Martinian, Martyrs St. Otho, Bishop and Confessor St. Monegondes, Recluse St. Oudoceus, Bishop

3.

St. Phocas, Martyr St. Guthagon, Recluse St. Gunthiern, Abbot St. Bertran, Bishop

4.

St. Ulric, Bishop and Confessor St. Odo, Bishop and Confessor St. Sisoes, Anchoret St. Bertha, Widow, Abbess St. Finbar, Abbot in Ireland St. Bolcan, Abbot in Ireland

5.

St. Peter, Bishop and Confessor St. Modwena, Virgin in Ireland St. Edana, Virgin in Ireland

6.

St. Palladius, Bishop and Confessor, Apostle of the Scots Account of ancient principal Scottish Saints commemorated in an ancient Scottish Calendar published by Mr. Robert Keith St. Julian, Anchoret St. Sexburgh, Abbess St. Goar, Priest, Confessor St. Moninna, Virgin in Ireland

7.

St. Pantænus, Father of the Church St. Willibald, Bishop and Confessor St. Hedda, Bishop and Confessor St. Edelburga, Virgin St. Felix, Bishop and Confessor St. Benedict XI., Pope and Confessor

8.

St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal St. Procopius, Martyr SS. Kilian, Bishop, Colman, Priest, and Totnan, Deacon, Martyrs St. Withburge, Virgin B. Theobald, Abbot St. Grimbald, Abbot

9.

St. Ephrem, Doctor of the Church Appendix on the Writings of St. Ephrem SS. Martyrs of Gorcum St. Everildis, Virgin St. Veronica Giuliani

10.

The Seven Brothers, and St. Felicitas, their mother, Martyrs SS. Rufina and Secunda, Virgins, Martyrs

11.

St. James, Bishop and Confessor His Writings St. Hidulphus, Bishop St. Pius I., Pope and Martyr St. Drostan, Abbot in Scotland

12.

St. John Gualbert, Abbot SS. Nabor and Felix, Martyrs

13.

St. Eugenius, Bishop, &c., Confessors St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr St. Turiaf, Bishop

14.

St. Bonaventure, Cardinal, Bishop, and Doctor of the Church Life of B. Giles of Assisio Lives and Writings of Peter Lombard, surnamed Master of the Sentences, Bishop of Paris, John Duns Scotus, Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and William Ockham St. Camillus de Lellis, Confessor St. Idus, Bishop in Ireland

15.

St. Henry II., Emperor Some account of the Territories conferred by Pepin, and confirmed by Charlemagne, on the Holy See St. Plechelm, Bishop and Confessor St. Swithin, Bishop and Confessor

16.

St. Eustathius, Patriarch of Antioch, Confessor Life and Writings of Eusebius, Bishop of Cæsarea St. Elier, Hermit and Martyr

17.

St. Alexius, Confessor St. Speratus, &c., Martyrs Life and Writings of Tertullian St. Marcellina, Virgin St. Ennodius, Bishop and Confessor St. Leo IV., Pope and Confessor Some Account of the Slander of Pope Joan St. Turninus, Confessor, of Ireland

18.

St. Symphorosa and her seven Sons, Martyrs St. Philastrius, Bishop and Confessor St. Arnoul, Bishop and Confessor St. Arnoul, Martyr St. Frederic, Bishop and Martyr St. Odulph, Confessor St. Bruno, Bishop and Confessor

19.

St. Vincent of Paul, Confessor Some Account of Jansenism St. Arsenius, Anchoret of Sceté St. Symmachus, Pope and Confessor St. Macrina, Virgin

20.

St. Joseph Barsabas, Confessor St. Margaret, Virgin and Martyr SS. Justa and Rufina, Martyrs St. Ceslas, Confessor St. Aurelius, Bishop and Confessor St. Ulmar, Abbot St. Jerom Æmiliani, Confessor

21.

St. Praxedes, Virgin St. Zoticus, Bishop and Martyr St. Barhadbesciabas, Martyr St. Victor, Martyr Life and Writings of Cassian Lives and Writings of Hugh and Richard, Canon Regulars of St. Victor St. Arbogastus, Bishop and Confessor

22.

St. Mary Magdalen St. Vandrille, Abbot St. Joseph of Palestine St. Meneve, Abbot St. Dabius, Confessor, of Ireland

23.

St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr St. Liborius, Bishop and Confessor

24.

St. Lupus, Bishop and Confessor St. Francis Solano, Confessor SS. Romanus and David, Martyrs Some Account of the Russians, their Saints, &c. St. Christina, Virgin and Martyr SS. Wulfhad and Ruffin, Martyrs St. Lewine, Virgin and Martyr St. Declan, Bishop in Ireland St. Kinga, Virgin

25.

St. James the Great, Apostle St. Christopher, Martyr SS. Thea and Valentine, Virgins, and St. Paul, Martyrs St. Cucufas, Martyr St. Nissen, Abbot in Ireland

26.

St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin St. Germanus, Bishop and Confessor

27.

St. Pantaleon, Martyr SS. Maximian, Malchus, Martinian, Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine, Martyrs St. Congall, Abbot in Ireland St. Lucian, Confessor in Ireland

28.

SS. Nazarius and Celsus, Martyrs St. Victor, Pope and Martyr St. Innocent I., Pope and Confessor St. Sampson, Bishop and Confessor

29.

St. Martha, Virgin SS. Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice, Martyrs St. Felix, Pope and Martyr St. William, Bishop and Confessor St. Olaus, King and Martyr Another St. Olaus, King and Martyr

30.

SS. Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs St. Julitta, Martyr

31.

St. Ignatius of Loyola, Confessor St. John Columbini, Confessor St. Helen, Martyr

JULY 1.

SAINT RUMOLD, B. M.

PATRON OF MECHLIN.[1]

From the Bollandists. Ward, Act. &c. S. Rumoldi, Lov. 1662, 4to. Sellerii Act. S. Rumoldi, An. 1718, &c.

A. D. 775.

St. Rumold renounced the world in his youth and embraced a state of voluntary poverty, being convinced that whatever exceeds the calls of nature is a useless load and a perfect burden to him that bears it. He was the most declared enemy to voluptuousness; and by frugality, moderation, and a heart pure and disengaged from all seducing vanities, and desires of what is superfluous, he tasted the most solid pleasure which virtue gives in freeing a man from the tyranny of his passions, when he feels them subjected to him, and finds himself above them. Victorious over himself, by humility, meekness, and mortification, he reaped in his soul, without any obstacles from self-love or inordinate attachments, the sweet and happy fruits of assiduous prayer and contemplation, whereby he sanctified his studies, in which he made great progress, and at the same time advanced daily in Christian perfection. He had faithfully served God many years in his own country, when an ardent zeal for the divine honor and the salvation of souls induced him to travel into Lower Germany to preach the faith to the idolaters. He made a journey first to Rome to receive his mission from the chief pastor, and with the apostolic blessing went into Brabant, great part of which country about Mechlin he converted to the faith. He was ordained a regionary or missionary bishop without any fixed see. He frequently interrupted his exterior functions to renew his spirit before God in holy solitude. In his retirement he was slain on the 24th of June in 775, by two sons of Belial, one of whom he had reproved for adultery. His body was thrown into a river, but being miraculously discovered, it was honorably interred by his virtuous friend and protector, count Ado. A great and sumptuous church was built at Mechlin to receive his precious relics, which is still possessed of that treasure, and bears the name of this saint. The city of Mechlin keeps his feast a solemn holiday, and honors him as its patron and apostle. Janning the Bollandist gives a long history of his miracles. His great church at Mechlin was raised to the metropolitical dignity by Paul IV. Ware says that the feast of St. Rumold was celebrated as a double festival with an office of nine lessons throughout the province of Dublin before the reformation. It was extended to the whole kingdom of Ireland in the year 1741.