JUNE 8
Within the Octave
MARY, MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES
[Some places]
O Lord Jesus
Christ, our Mediator with the Father, Who hast deigned to appoint the Blessed
Virgin, Thy Mother, to be our Mother also and our Mediatrix with Thee,
graciously grant that whosoever goes to Thee in quest of blessings may be
gladdened by obtaining them all through her, Thou Who livest and reignest with
the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. R. Amen.
SAINTS MEDARD & GILDARD
(Bishops, 560 A.D.)
[Historical]
These
two saints of France were, as we are told in the Roman Martyrology,
twin brothers. They were born on the same day, consecrated bishops on
the same day, and on the same day they died. Saint Medard was Bishop of
Noyon. Saint Gildard was Bishop of Rouen. Their memories are most loving
ones in northern France. Saint Medard began the custom of crowning each
year as the Rose Queen the most virtuous and holy young Catholic girl
of his diocese. If it rains on the feast of Saint Medard, the loving
Catholic peasants of northern France take it as a sign that it will rain
for forty days more.
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