• July 8th - St. Grimbald

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    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    July 8th - St. Grimbald

    Born at Th=C3=A9rouanne (Pas-de-Calais), France, c.825; died 903. Grimbald became a Benedictine monk about 840, was ordained priest in 870, and
    was abbot of Saint-Bertin. He entertained King Alfred on his way to
    Rome in 885. As a well-known scholar, he went to Rheims in 886.

    Upon the advice of Archbishop Eldred of Canterbury and through Fulk of
    Rheims, Alfred invited Grimbald to England in 887. Grimbald accepted
    the offer. He lived in Winchester in a small =E2=80=9Cmonastery=E2=80=9D an=
    d served as
    a court-scholar, assisting Alfred with his translations of Latin works
    into Old English, including Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care (Liber
    regulae pastoralis). Eventually, Grimbald was appointed the first
    professor of divinity at Oxford (some say that he actually founded the university).

    Upon the death of Eldred in 889, Alfred tried to persuade Grimbald to
    become archbishop of Canterbury, but he refused and became instead
    dean of the secular canons of New Minster at Winchester, the
    town-church where prominent citizens had burial rights. Alfred's so=
    n,
    King Edward, reburied his father and mother (Queen Alswithe) in this
    new church, which probably absorbed the small community that Grimbald
    had previously governed. (Later, King Henry I removed New Minster to
    Hyde, now called Saint Grimbald's monastery.)

    Grimbald restored learning in England. He may have brought to England
    the 9th-century manuscript of Prudentius, now at Corpus Christi
    College in Cambridge, as well as the famous Utrecht Psalter.

    During his last illness, the extremely feeble Saint Grimbald rose out
    of bed and prostrated himself on the ground to receive the holy
    viaticum. Thereafter, he asked to be left alone with God for three
    days. On the fourth day the community was called into his chamber, and
    amidst their prayers the saint calmly breathed forth his happy soul in
    his 83rd year.

    His body was reposed in New Minster and honored amongst its most
    precious relics together with those of Saint Judocus. It was taken up
    by Saint Alphege, and exposed in a silver shrine. Other translations
    occurred in 938, c.1050, and 1110, when the whole establishment was
    moved to Hyde. Grimbald's vita was written by Goscelin, monk of
    Saint-Bertin's. While his cultus centered on Winchester, it was
    extended by Malmesbury to other Benedictine abbeys and to York and
    Hereford (Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Farmer, Husenbeth).


    Saint Quote
    I am gently going to my grave. It is the will of God, and I thank Him
    very much for letting me die of the same disease and in the same way
    as my lepers. I am very satisfied and very happy.
    --Blessed Father Damien de Veuster

    Bible Quote
    But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God,
    rather than men. The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you
    put to death, hanging him upon a tree. Him hath God exalted with his
    right hand, to be Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel,
    and remission of sins.=C2 (Acts 5:29-31)


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    Be simple as doves.=C2 [Matt. 10:16 ]=C2 July: Simplicity

    31. God is a Being most simple in His essence, admitting no
    composition whatever. If, then, we desire to render ourselves as much
    like Him as possible, we should endeavor to be by virtue what He is by
    nature; that is, we ought to have a simple heart, a simple soul, a
    simple intention, a simple mode of action. We ought to speak simply,
    and to act frankly, without deceit or artifice, always letting our
    exterior reflect our interior, and never regarding anything in all our
    actions except God, Whom alone we endeavor and desire to please.
    --St. Vincent de Paul

    Such, in fact, was the simplicity of this Saint, for his exterior was
    always in entire conformity to his interior. Whoever heard his words
    could immediately know what was in his heart, which he always kept
    upon his lips. And however numerous and varied might be his
    occupations, they all had the same end, which was to please God alone.
    It might be truly said that he possessed this virtue to such a degree
    that the faculties of his soul were wholly steeped in it, and whatever
    he said or did proceeded from this source.

    ("A Year with the Saints".)

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