OCTOBER

1.
Foundation of the Abbey de la Conronnie, or the order of St. Agustin, in the diocese of Angouleme, under the title of Our Lady, by Lambert, who was its first abbot, in the year 1122.—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.)

2.
Our Lady of the Assumption, at Naples, built by the canonesses regular of St. Augustine, out of gratitude for the favour which the Mother of God did them, by warning them to leave a house which fell down as soon as they were gone out of it.— (Triple Couronne, n. 42.) 

3.
Our Lady of La Place, at Rome. This image having fallen into a well at the house of Cardinal Copocias, in the year 1250, the water swelled up miraculously, and cast out the image, which the cardinal placed in his chapel. But Pope Innocent IV. obliged him to build another on the very spot where the miracle had occurred. This chapel having been given to the Servites, they have erected a fine church, in which the well is enclosed.—(Triple Couronne, n. 100.)

4.
Our Lady of Vanssivieres, on the mountains of Auvergue, near Mont d'Or, where there is an image which has remained miraculously from the ruins of Vaussivieres, which was destroyed by the English about the year 1374. This image having been transferred to the Church of Besse, was Found again in its former place.—(Duchene, c. 9.)

5.
Our Lady of Buch, in the Pine Mountains, in Guienne. The sea cast this image upon the sands, while St. Thomas, of the order of St. Francis, was praying in behalf of two vessels which he saw in danger of perishing. He respectfully received this image and deposited it in this place, in a small chapel which he built there.—(Florimond Raymon, Histoiro des Heresies, liv. i.)
Saint Mary's of Jersey, consecrated in the year 1320, in the English Channel.—(Chartrier de Coutances, called Le Livre Noir.)

6.
Our Lady de la Plebe, in the marshes of Venice, built in the year 1480.)

7.
Festival of the Rosary, instituted by Pope Gregory XIIL in the year 1573, in consequence of the celebrated victory of Lepanto, gained by the Christians over the Turks.—(Joseph Stephan., Tract, de Indulg, Rosarii.)

8.
Our Lady of Gifts, at Avignon. The tradition which attributes the foundation of this church to St. Martha, reports that it was consecrated by our Lord himself. Afterwards, having been demolished by the Saracens, it was repaired by the Emperor Charlemagne.—(Triple Couronne, ii. 40.)

9.
In the year 723, the night after the Saracep prince had unjustly ordered the hand of St. John Damascenus to be cut off, Our Lady reunited it miraculously to his wrist, after this faithful servant had prayed to her for it with the design, of continuing to write in defense of holy images.—(John, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Life of St. John Damascenus, in Surius.)

10.
Our Lady of the Cloister, at Besancon. The image of Our Lady, placed in the Cloister of La Madeleine, was preserved from a fire, in the year 1642, though the niche whcre it stood was reduced to ashes.—(Triple Couronne, n. 58.)

11.
Our Lady the White, in the church of the monastery of the Feuillants, at Ouville, in the district of Caux. This image, is much venerated in the country.—(Archives of the Monastery.)

12.
Our Lady of Faith, in the country of Liege. This image was found by a carpenter named Gilles de Wanlin, in the year 1609, who, as he was cutting down an oak, with the intention of making a boat, found in it, enclosed in an iron grating, an image of Our Lady, made of white clay, a foot high, which was placed in another oak, and after wards in a church which was built on the very place of the oak which had borne this fair fruit.— (Triple Couronne, n. 60.)

13.
Dedication of Clairvaux, in the diocese of Langres, in honor of the Blessed Virgin. St. Bernard was the first abbot of this celebrated monastery, where he died in the year 1153, aged sixty three years. Alphonsns I., King of Portugal, in the year 1142, bound himself and his successors to pay every year, as the vassal of Our Lady of Clairvaux, fifty gold maravedis.—(Cistercian Chronicle.)

14.
Our Lady of La Rochette, near Geneva. A shepherd coming up to a hush, where he heard a plaintive voice, found there an image of the Blessed Virgin, which led to a church being built there.—(Astolph, Historia-universalis B. Mariae Virginis.)

15.
Dedication of Our Lady of Teronenne, in the year 1131, by Milo, its thirteenth bishop.—(Jacob Meyerus, lib. ii., Annal. Flandriae.)

16.
Dedication of Our Lady of Milan, by Pope Martin V., in the year 1417. This church was built in 1388 by John Galleas, Duke of Milan.— (Philip Bergomonsis, lib. iv Supl. ann. 1388.)

17.
Dedication of the Crypt of Our Lady of Chartres, by St. Pontianus, in the year 46. Dedication of the Church of Citeaux, in the diocese, of Chalons under the title of Our Lady.—(Sebastian R.ouillard, c. 4, n. 4.)

18.
Dedication of Our Lady of Rheims, built by St. Nicasius, archbishop of that city, in the year 405. This church having fallen to ruins, was rebuilt by Ebo and Hincmar. It was finished in the year 845.—(Flodoardus, lib. i., c. 6.)

19.
Dedication of the Abbey of Royaimont, under the title of the Holy Cross and Our Lady, by John, Archbishop of Mytileme, in the year 1235. This monastery had been founded by St Louis in the year 1227—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.)

20.
Dedication of the church of Pontigny, four leagues from Anxerre, under the title of Our Lady. This abbey was founded in 1114 by Thibaud, Count of Champagne.— Angl. Manriq.)

21.
Our Lady of Talan, near Dijon.—(Ex moanmentis Divion.)

22.
Our Lady of the Under-ground, half a league from Grand Cairo. It is held by tradition that the Blessed Virgin lived for some years in this subterranean chapel.— Triple Couronne, n. 0.)

23.
Our Lady of Consolation, near Honfleur. This chapel is much frequented; two children have been raised to life there, in memory of which their figures are there in silver.—(Archives of the place.)

24.
Our Lady of the Hermits, in Switzerland, where there was formerly a small hermitage in the midst of woods occupied by St. Meinrad till the Emperor Otho built, a church there, in compliance with an order which he received from heaven. This church contains a small chapel of Our Lady, which was consecrated, it is said, in the year 1418, by Our Lord, accompanied by angels and saints, who performed the functions of ordinary ministers of the church, in presence of the Blessed Virgin.— (Triple Conronne, n, 84.)

25.
Dedication of Our Lady of Toledo, in Spain, about the year 1075, by Bernard, archbishop of that city. This cathedral has a revenue of more than 300,000 livres.— John Marian, lib. ix., c. 18.)

26.
Dedication of Our Lady of Victory, near Senlis, in the year 1225, by Guarin, Bishop of Senlis, and Chancellor of France. This abbey was built by Philip Augustus, in thanksgiving for the victory which he gained over the Emperor Otho IV., at Bouvines, in the year 214.—(Carta Tabularis de Victoria.)

27.
Our Lady of the Basilla, in Lombardy, beyond the Po, where, there is a church built by the express order of Our Lady.—(Albert Leander, Descriptio Italiae.)

28.
Our Lady of Vivonne, in Savoy, where a miraclous image is venerated, which was found by a: ploughman. This statue, having been removed three times into the village church, was always found again in its former place, which necessitated the building of a church, which was given, to the Carmelites.—(Astolphus, in Histor. univers. imag. B. Virg.)

29.
Our Lady of Orope, near Bielle, in Savoy; this image, of cedar wood, six feet high, is in a chapel, which St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, erected, about the year 380; he often retired thither during the troubles caused by the Arians.—(Triple Conuronne, n. 112.)

30.
Our Lady of Mondevi, at Vic, in Piedmont, where there is a picture which a tile maker had painted on a brick pillar, which he had erected for that purpose. This pillar has been enclosed in a church, where the miracles which are wrought attract a great concourse of people.—(History of Mondevi, c. 2.)

31.
In the year 1116, an altar boy having fallen into the well of St. Fort, which is in the church of Chartres, was saved by Our Lady. All the time that he was in the well, he heard the angels answering the public prayers which were chanted in the church; whence the custom arose at Chartres that the, choir never answer aloud to the Dominus Vobiscum, chanted at high mass and canonical hours.—(Sebastian Rouillard, Parthen., c. 6, n. 14.)