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July 29 The Slaves of Satan, Prince of Darkness, again have their way, so that I can not research and publish the Saints of today.

July 29: Our Lady of Deliverance, Madrid, Spain

«Devotion to Mary under the above title is one of the most ancient of all Marian devotions. It was the city of Madrid, in Spain, that became the scene of its popularization. During the Spanish wars which occasioned the people to seek refuge in the New World, a looting soldier carried off a statue from one of the shrines in Madrid. The image was a beautiful little statue that depicted Mary cuddling at her breast the Infant Jesus whom she was lovingly nursing. A poor peasant returning from the fields after making a visit to the shrine, recognized the statue in the possession of the drunken soldier. He bought the statue for a small sum of money, and carried it home to enshrine it in his humble cottage. It chanced that this man's wife was nearing childbirth, so daily the couple knelt before the statue begging the Mother of God to give the expectant mother a safe delivery. As the days passed, it was evident that there were difficulties, and that the wife of the poor peasant was certainly threatened with death. The father prayed most fervently before the image of Mary for his wife's safety. His confidence was rewarded by a happy delivery vouchsafed by the Little Mother, as he lovingly referred to the statue. He named the statue accordingly, the Mother of Safe Delivery, which also became known as Our Lady of Deliverance. The news spread rapidly, and Mary's devotees, finding themselves under similar circumstances as the peasant's wife, frequented the home until it became too small to accommodate all of them. A chapel was built for Our Lady of Deliverance, and later a church named after St Martin. The statue of the Mother of Safe Delivery was removed with great pomp; nobility and peasant alike knelt in prayer in their personal and family needs. Our Lady recognized all as her children, bestowing safe deliveries where requested. This devotion also spread to the New World first in Spanish Florida. In the 1600s the Conquistadors brought the image to the city of St Augustine, under its original name, Nuestra Senora de la Leche y Buen Parto, or Our Lady of the Milk and of Safe Delivery.»

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

At Tarascon in France, St Martha, virgin, the hostess of our Savior, and sister of St Mary Magdalen and of St Lazarus.

At Rome, on the Aurelian road, St Felix II, Pope and martyr. Being expelled from his See by the Arian emperor Constantius for defending the Catholic faith, and being put to the sword privately at Cera, in Tuscany, he died gloriously. His body was taken away from that place by clerics, and buried on the Aurelian road. It was afterwards brought to the Church of the Saints Cosmas and Damian, where, under the Sovereign Pontiff, Gregory XIII, it was found beneath the altar with the relics of the holy martyrs Mark, Marcellian, and Tranquillinus, and with these was put back in the same place on July 31. In the same altar were also found the bodies of the holy martyrs Abundius, priest, and Abundantius, deacon, which were shortly after solemnly transferred to the Church of the Society of Jesus, on the eve of their festival.

Also at Rome, on the road to Porto, the holy martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrix, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. The first two, after being subjected to many different torments, were condemned to suffer capital punishment; Beatrix, their sister, was smothered in prison.

Again, at Rome, the holy martyrs Lucilla and Flora, virgins, Eugenius, Antoninus, Theodore, and eighteen companions, who underwent martyrdom in the reign of the emperor Gallienus.

At Gangra, in Paphlagonia, St Callinicus, martyr, who was scourged with iron rods, and given over to other torments. Being finally cast into a furnace, he gave up his soul to God.

In Norway, St Olaf, king and martyr.

At Troyes, in France, St Lupus, bishop and confessor, who went with blessed Germanus to England to combat the Pelagian heresy, and by assiduous prayer defended the city of Troyes from the furor of Attila, who was devastating all France. At length, having religiously discharged the functions of the priesthood for fifty-two years, he rested in peace.

At St Brieuc, St William, bishop and confessor.

Also, the demise of blessed Prosper, bishop of Orleans.

At Todi, St Faustinus, confessor.

At Mumia, St Seraphina.

Again at Rome, St Serapia, virgin. Under Emperor Hadrian, she was delivered to two lustful young men, and as she could not be corrupted, nor afterwards burned with lighted torches, she was beaten with rods, and finally beheaded by order of the judge Derillus. She was buried by St Sabina in her own tomb, near the field of Vindician. But the commemoration of her martyrdom is celebrated more solemnly on September 3, when their common tomb was finished and adorned, and dedicated as a place of prayer.

ALBAN BUTLER

St William, Bishop of S. Brieuc in Brittany, Confessor https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/293.html.
St Olaus, or Olave, King of Norway, Martyr https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/294.html.
St Olaus, King of Sweden, Martyr https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/295.html.

IRISH & CELTIC SAINTS

St Coelan of Inis-cealtra saint-coelan-of-inis-cealtra-july-29.html.
St Cummine MacAride saint-cummine-son-of-aride-july-29.html.
St Sulian of Cornwall St Sulian.