JUNE 8
Within the Octave of
Corpus Christi
MARY, MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES
[Some places]
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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