July

1.
Dedication of the church of Jumieges, in Normandy, in the year 1067, by Maurice, Archbishop of Rouen, at the instance of King William.— (Thomas Walsingham.)

2.
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin. This feast was instituted by Urban IV., in the year 1385, and confirmed by Boniface IX., in the year 1389.—(Antoine, iv. part, tit. xv., chap. 24.)

3.
Our Lady of la Carolle, at Paris. It is said that this image, which was placed at the corner of the Rou aux Ours, was stabbed with a knife, in the year 1418, and that it bled profusely. In memory of this, fireworks are set off every year, in which a waxen figure is burnt, which represents the sacrilegious wretch who gave the blow.—(Du Breuil, lib. ii.)

4.
Our Lady of Miracles, at Avignon, John XXII., on the occasion of two criminals being condemned to the fire ; one who invoked the Blessed Virgin was spared by the flames, while other was entirely consumed.- (Richard of Cluny, Life of John XXII)

5.
Dedication of Our Lady of Cambray, in the year 1472, by Peter de Ranchicourt, Bishop of Arras. This church was built in honor of Our Lady, in the year 524; reduced to ruins by the Normans in the year 882; rebuilt by Dossillon, twenty-first Bishop of Arras, in the year 890; and, finally, after having been burnt in the years 1064. and 1148, it was put in its present condition, in the year 1251.—(Chronicon Hannon., t. iii., lib. ii., chap. 23.)

6.
Our Lady of Iron, near Blois, in Dunois. It was in this chapel that, about the year 1631, a, child, who had been smothered by struggling in its cradle, came to life the moment that its parents had devoted it to Our Lady of Iron.—(Archives of the Chapel.)

7.
Dedication of Our Lady of Arras, in the year 1484, by Peter de Ranchicourt, bishop of that city. This church was built by St. Vaast, Bishop of Arras, in the year 542, according to Baronius, by the Liberal donations of the first kings of France. The Normans destroyed it in the year 583, and, after being rebuilt, it was burnt by lightning in the year 1030, and built again in the year 1040.— (Locrius, lib. ii.)
It is related that, in the year 1410, Our Lady of Haut, in Hainault, restored life to a child of Brussels who had been drowned in a well. This child, having been taken out of the well dead, was devoted to Our Lady, and he immediately came to life.—(Justus Lipsius, History of Our Lady of Hal, ch. 16.)

8.
Our Lady of Peace, at the Capuchin Convent in the Rue St. Honore, at Paris.

9.
Dedication of Our Lady of Coutances, by Geoffry de Mowbray, in 1056.

10.
Dedication of Our Lady of Boulogne, near Paris, in the year 1469, by Chartier, Bishop of Paris. The confraternity of Our Lady of Boulogne is so illustrious, that six of Our kings have chosen to belong to it.—(Du Breuil, Antiq., lib. iv.)

11.
Our Lady of Clery, four leagues from Orleans. This church was rebuilt by King Louis XI., who was buried there in the year 1483.- -(Locrius, M. Aug. lib. iv. c. 68.)

12.
Dedication of Our Lady of all Graces, at the convent of the Minims of Nigeon, near Paris, in the year 1578. This house was given in the year 1476, by Ann of Brittany, wife of Louis XII., to St. Francis of Paula, who had instituted his order in the year 1436.—(Du Breuil, Antiquite's de Paris.)

13.
A century before the birth of our Saviour, the image of Our Lady of Chartres was carved in a forest, in the midst of the plains of La Beauce, by order of Priscus, king of the people of Chartres, and was set up afterwards with this inscription, "Virgini pariturae)"—that is, To a Virgin who is to bring forth—in the same place where it is seen at the present day, which was then a cave, where the Druids offered their sacrifices. St. Potentianus, second Bishop of Sens, whom the Apostle St. Peter had sent into France, stopped at Chartres, where he blessed this image, and dedicated the cavern as a church, in the year of Jesus Christ 46.—(Sebastian Rouillard, Parthen; c. iv. n. 1.)

14. Our Lady of the Bush, in Portugal. This image was seen in the middle of a burning bush, by a shepard; Vasquez Pcrdigon, Bishop of Evora, caused to be built in. this place, in the year 1403, a church and monastery, which was given to the monks of St. Jerome.—Vasconcellius Descriptio regni Lusitaniae, c. vii. § 5.)

15.
In the year 1099, the Turks were defeated by Godfrey of Bouillon, who on this day took Jerusalem, of which he was made king; and formerly the feast of this event was celebrated annually with a double office and octave.—(Molanus, at this day.)

16.
The feast of the Scapular; tradition says that Our Lady gave it, herself, about the year 1251, to the Blessed Simon Stock, an Englishman ; this devotion has since spread all over the world. The popes John XXII., Gregory XIII., Sixtus V. Gregory XIV., and Clement VIII., grunted indulgences to those belonging to this confraternity.- (Cartagena, de Ortu ordinis Carmelitarum.)

17.
In the year 1565, Pius V. approved of the reform of the barefooted Carmelites, instituted, by St. Teresa, at Avila, in Spain.

18.
Our Lady of Victory, at Toledo, so called from a signal victory which was gained over the Moors, by Alphonsus IX., King of Castile, in the year 1202, after having a flag carried, on which was the picture of Our Lady.—(Report of King Alphonsus to Innocent III.)

19.
Our Lady of Moyen Pont, near Peronne. The image was found by a shepherd, near the ponds, where the meadows of Amele are at present; a church was built there, which was repaired in 1612.—(Triple Couronne, n. 53.)

20.
Our Lady of Grace, at Picpus, Faubour Saint- Antoine, of Paris. This image, which was in a ship of wood with two angels at end, was made, in. 1629, from a splinter taken, from the famous image of Our Lady of Boulogne-sur-Mer.—(Triple Couronne, n. 47.)

21.
Our Lady of Verdun, in Lorraine, celebrated for numerous miracles. St. Polichraine, fifth Bishop of Verdun, dedicated this church on his return from the council of Chalcedon.— (Archives of the Church of Verdun.)

22.
Our Lady do la Garde, near Marseilles. The Queen of haven is much honored in this church, where every Saturday the blessed Sacrament is exposed from midnight till noon. There are seen more than thirty large silver lamps, with a quantity of branches of coral, of extraordinary size.— (Chronicon Massilliense.)

23.
Institution of the order of Premontre, by St Norbert, in the year 1120, after a revelation from Our Lady.—(Bibliotheca Praemonstr., lib. i., c. 2.)

24.
Foundation of Our Lady of Cambron, near Mons, in Hainault, by Anselm de Trasigny, lord of Peronne.—(MS. of the year 1148; Hanno's Chronicle.)

25.
Our Lady of Bonchet, two leagues and a half from Blanc and a half league from Berry, a pilgrimage which attracts a great concourse of pilgrims. The image, of the Blessed Virgin is made of the wood of an aged oak, where the first image was found.—(Ex monumentis hujus loci.)

26.
Our Lady of Faith, at Canchy, near Abbeville. This image, having been removed from the oak where it is, into a chapel which was built for it, fifty yards off. was miraculously found again in its former place.—(Archives of Canchy.)

27.
In the year 1480, the Knights of Rhodes gained a signal victory over the Turks, by the help of the Blessed Virgin, who appeared on the walls of that city, holding a lance in her hand: the enemy, panic-struck, fled in disorder, and lost the greater part of their army.—(Bosius. History of the Knights of Rhodes.)

28.
Our Lady of Foye, at Gravelines. This image is very celebrated in the country.- (History of Our Lady of Foye, at Gravelines.)

29.
In the year 1546, it was decreed at the council of Trent that, respecting the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, the constitution. of Sixtus IV. should be strictly observed, under the penalties therein imposed.—(Balingham on the Calendar.)

30.
Our Lady de Gray, near Besancon, in Franche Cormte. This image made of the oak of Montaigu, was much honored in the country.—(Triple Couronne, n. 58.) 

31.
Our Lady of the Murdered, at Ceica; near Lorban, a Cistercian monastery in Portugal. It is said that this image was brought from heaven to the Abbot John, uncle of King Alphonsus, and that it restored to life several persons who had been murdered; that in memory of this miracle they had from that time a red mark on their throats, like that which is seen at present, on the throat of the image.— (Cistercian Chronicle, lib, vi., c. 27 and 28.)