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JULY 1. St. RuMBOLD, bishop and martyr, A. D. 776. 

 SS. Julius and Aaron, martyrs. 

 St. Theobald, confessor, 11th cent. 

 St. Gal, bishop, 5th cent. 

 St. Calais, abbot, 542. 

 St. Leonorus. bishop. 

 St. Simeon, Salus 6th cent. 

 St. Thierri, abbot, 533. — Oct. S. John B. 

 St. Cybar, recluse, 581. — Vigil. Visitat. 



Obs. St. Rumold renounced the world in his youth, and em- 

 braced a state of voluntary poverty. After having faithfully served 

 God in his own country, he travelled into Lower Germany, to preach 

 the faith to the idolators, and with the Apostolic blessing he went 

 into Brabant, great part of which about JMechhn he converted. He 

 was ordained a regionary or missionary bishop, without any fixed 

 see. To renew his spirit before God, he frequently retired m 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. 



Purple Virgin's Bower Clematis integrifolia fl. 

 Agrimony Agrimonia Eupatoria fl. 



With July the Agrimony begins to be commonly seen stretching up 

 its long spike of yellow flowers out of the Grass, by the sides of 

 hedges in meadows and in other moist grounds. After the Sum- 

 mer Solstice the sky begins to exhibit the most beautiful phenomena, 

 and at daybreak is often coloured as if strewed with Roses, with 

 which flowers, now in perfection, its roseate tints seem to vie, re- 

 minding us of an idea in Mr. Wordsworth's elegant Sonnet — 



To the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

 Mother! whose virijiii bosom was uncrost 



With the least shade of tlioiiuht to siu allied ; 



Woman ! above all women glorified. 

 Our tainted nature's solitary boast; 

 Purer than foam on central ocean tost! 



brishter tlian eastern skies at daybreak strewn 



Willi fancied Roses, than the unljlemished noon 

 Before her wane begins on Heaven's blue coast? 



Thy image tails to earth. Vet some. 1 ween. 

 Not uuforgiveu the suppliant knee might bend. 

 As to a visible power, in which did blend 

 All that was mixed and reconciled in thee 

 Of mother's love with maiden purity, 



Of high with low, celestial with terrene ! 



There are many sorts of Clematis or Virgin's Bower, and most 

 of them come into flower about Visitation Tide, are in fullest blow 

 at the Assumption, and fade about the 8th of September ; hence 

 their names. 



