SEPTEMBER

1.
On the first Sunday of the month, in St. Peter's church, at Louvani, a feast is kept in honor of the Blessed Virgin, called the Collection of all the Feasts of Our  Lady.—(Molanns, ad. Usuard, Martyrolog.)

2.
Our Lady of Helbron, or of Nettles, in Francoaia, in Germany. This image began to work miracles in the year 1441.—(Triple Couronne, n. 73.)

3.
Dedication of the Abbey of Corneville, in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in the year 1147, by Hugo, Archbishop of Rouen.—(Gallia Christiana) t. iv.)

4.
In the year 1419, Our Lady of Haut, in Hainanit, restored to life a young woman named Jane Maillard, who was drawing water from a very deep well, when the store work at the top giving way, she fell to the bottom. She was taken out quite dead; but her mother having offered her by vow to Our Lady of Haut, she immediately showed signs of life.—(Justus Lipsius, Our Lady of Hal, c. 10.)

5.
Our Lady of Bois, near Arras. A knight, who attempted to turn this chapel into a stable, in the the year 1478, was killed on the spot by his horse—(Triple Cournne, n. 62.)

6.
Our Lady of the Fountain, half a league from Valenciennes. Tradition relates that the Blessed Virgin appeared, in this place to a hermit, when the plague ravaged the town, and commanded him to tell the inhabitants to fast on the following day, and pass the night in prayer. Having done this, they saw her descend from heaven, and gird the town all around with a cord. This is cord is still preserved at Valenciennes. — (Narrative of the Affair.)

7.
Vigil of the Nativity of 0ur Lady, instituted by Gregory II., about the year 722.— Balinghaia on the Calendar. )

8.
The Nativity of Our Lady, which happened, according to Baronius, in the year of the creation of the world 4007, on a Saturday, at daybreak, fifteen years before the birth of our Saviour. This feast was instituted on the 8th of September, in the Greek Church and in the Latin, in the year 436, according to the same Baronius; and in France, by St. Maurillus, Bishop of Angers.
Dedication of the church of Our Lady of Liesse, in the diocese of Laon, ten leagues from Rheims. Dedication of Our  Lady of Montserrat, in Catalonia.

9.
Our Lady of Pay, in Velay. St. George, who was its first bishop, had marked out the site of this church, which was not built till about the year 221. The Blessed Virgin herself, gave the charge of it to St. Evodius, or Vosi, the seventh bishop of the same place, whom she ordered to transfer his Episcopal see to Pay. St. Evodius obeyed the Blessed, Virgin; but when he wished to consecrate his new chruch, it was made known to him that the dedication of it had been performed by angels; the doors opened of themselves, the bells rung of themselves, the candles were found lighted, and the holy Chrism, which the angels had used, appeared quite fresh upon the altar and the walls.—(Odo Gisseus, de Virg, Aniciens., lib. ii., c. 7, 8, and 9.)

10.
Our Lady of Trut, near Cologne. This church was built under Otho I by St. Heribert, Archbishop of Cologne, on the very spot where idols bad been formerly worshipped.

11.
Our Lady of Hildesheim, in the duchy of Brunswick, in Germany. An image is there venerated, which Louis the Meek always wore about him. One day, when he had forgotten it in a wood, it became so heavy that it was impossible to remove it, which made the king resolve to build a church there.—(Triple Couronne, n. 75.)

12.
Our Lady of Healing, in Lower Normandy. Miraculous cures are wrought, in great numbers, in this church.—(Archives of the Church.)

13.
Our Lady of Guadaloupe, in Spain. This image, which Pope Gregory sent to St. Leander, Bishop of Seville, was concealed, on the invasion of the Moors, with the body of St. Fulgentius, in the cave of Guadaloupe, where it remained nearly six hundred years, till Our Lady revealed it to a shepherd. —(Mariana, History of Spain.)

14.
Dedication of Our Lady of Frontevrault, in. Poitou, by Pope Calixtus II., in the year 1129.— (Gallia Christiana.)

15.
Octave of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, instituted on occasion of some disputes, which arose on the election, of a successor to Celestin IV., by the intrigues of the Emperor Frederick II, which caused the cardinals to have recourse to Our Lady, obliging themselves, by vow, to add an octave to her Nativity, when she should have given them a pope, Innocent IV, having been elected, he instituted this octave in the year 1243, the first of his pontificate.—(Amoldus Wionius, tib. v., Ligni vitae, c. 22.)

16.
Our Lady of Good Tidings, at Orleans, built by King Robert, in the year 996, on the very spot where he learnt the good news that his father, Hugo, had escaped death.— Locrius, Maria Augustae, lib. iv., c. 62.)

17.
Inauguration of the image of Our Lady of Puy, in Velay. King St. Louis gave this image to the church of Puy, in the year 1254, on his return from beyond the seas.

18.
Our Lady of Smelcem, in Flanders. The chronicle relates that some shepherds observed that their sheep bent their knees before this image. This occasioned Baldwin, surnamed Fair Beard, to choose this place to build a church in thanksgiving for having been cured by our Saviour of a malady which he had had for seventeen years.—(Triple Couronne, n. 63.)

19.
Our Lady of Healing, near Mount Leon, in Gascony.—(Geoffroy, Histoire de la Vierge de Guerison.)

20.
Our Lady of the Silver Foot, at Toul, in Lorraine, where an image is seen, which according to an ancient tradition, informed a woman, in the year 1284, of an act of treachery which was planning against the city, and as a sign of it, the image put out its foot, which was found changed into silver.—(Triple Couronne. n. 57.)

21.
Our Lady of Pucha, in the kingdom of Valentia. This image was found in the year 1223, by means of seven stars which were seen shining on this spot, which made people dig into the earth, where they fonud an image of the Blessed Virgin.— (Bernard Gomes, Historia Hispan., lib. x.)

22.
The giving of the name of Mary to Our Lady, by St. Anne, her mother.— Petrus a Castro, Hist Virg. c. 2.)

23.
Our  Lady of Valvencre, in Spain. This image was found in an oak, on the very spot where is now seen the magnificent church which Alphonsus IV., King of Castile, rebuilt. — (Antonius Yepez, Chronicle.)

24.
Our Lady of Roquemadour, or Rock of Amateur in the diocese of Cahors, in Quercy. This place of pilgrimage is so named because St. Amateur, vulgarly called St. Amant, lived for some time upon this rock, which began to be famous about the year 1140.— Hugo Farcitus, de Miracul. B. Virg. Rupiramat.)

25.
Our Lady of Passer, at Rodez. This image having been often removed from the place where it was, to another place, was always found again at its old post, which made it necessary to build a church there.—(Triple Couronne, n. 53.)

26.
Our Lady of Victory, at Tournay. The inhabitants carried the keys of the city into the church of Our Lady, in the year 1340, because they knew that the Queen of heaven alone was able to deliver them from the English, who had besieged them for forty days; they had no sooner testified this confidence in the Blessed Virgin, than the siege was raised, when the inhabitants had hardly provisions left for three days.—(Archives of Tournay.)

27.
Our  Lady of Good-meeting, half a league from Agde. This image, made of baked clay, was discovered miraculously, in the year 1523.—(Triple Couronne, n. 34.)

28.
Our Lady of Cambron, of the order of Citeaux, in Hainault, near Mons. It is said that this image, being struck by a wicked man, in the year 1322, bled copiously.— Histoire Camberon., Duaci. ann. 1602.)

29.
Our Lady of Tongres, in the diocese of Cambray. This image, in the year 1081, was taken into a garden, where the Bishop of Cambray erected a church.—(Triple Couronne, n. 1602.)

30.
Our  Lady of Beaumont, in Lorraine between Domremy and Vauconleurs. Joan of Arc very often retired into this church, to commend the affairs of France to the Queen of heaven and earth, who ordered her to take up arms to deliver that kingdom.—(Triple Couronne, traite 3, ch. 7.)