- July 10, 1469: The dedication of a new church built in honor of Our Lady of Boulogne at Boulogne sur Mer
Consecrated on this date, by Bishop Chartier of Paris. At the French Revolution, the Satanist "Government" burned the statue and demolished the church. A new statue was made in 1803 and devotions and pilgrimages resumed. The image represents the Mother with the Child in her arms, standing in a boat, with an angel on either side, as had happened February 20, 636, when the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Boulogne had come in from the sea without human aid. At the Marian Congress in Boulogne in 1938, a custom began to take replicas of this statue "on turn" in France and abroad. The sanctuary church at Boulogne was badly damaged during World War II, and Mary's image very nearly entirely destroyed; but a "Great Return" of one of the copies of the statue which had been sheltered at Lourdes, took place in 1943, and the occasion will long be remembered by lovers of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is an ancient offshoot of this shrine at Boulogne-sur-Seine.
«In about 633, while St Audomare also known as St Omer, was bishop of Thérouanne, an unmanned boat carrying a luminous statue of the Virgin Mary was sighted in the estuary at Boulogne. The statue was carried to the church and soon miracles were reported at the site. Between the 13th and 16th century the statue, known as Notre Dame de la Mer or "Our Lady of the Sea", became a popular object of pilgrimage, bringing prosperity to the town. In around 1100 a new church was built on the site and over the next few centuries underwent numerous changes, such as the addition of a choir in the 14th century. In 1308 it was the location of the wedding of Edward II of England to Isabella of France, an event commemorated by a memorial in the crypt. In 1567, on the creation of the Diocese of Boulogne, the church was elevated to be its cathedral, and flourished until the French Revolution, when the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of 1790 brought it under government control. Worship in the cathedral was prohibited: the Convent of the Annonciades (Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) became the centre of worship in Boulogne, and after a period as a military warehouse, the cathedral was sold to traders from outside the city. The building was then demolished in stages, and, in 1793, the celebrated miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Sea was burned. Only a small portion of the statue's hand survived. Of the original cathedral, only the impressive Romanesque crypt from the medieval building survives. Under the Concordat of 1801, which restored a reformed diocesan structure in France, the diocese of Boulogne ceased to exist. Its former territory was incorporated into the expanded Diocese of Arras. A local priest and self-taught architect, Benoît Haffreingue, vowed to rebuild the destroyed cathedral to restore the honour of Our Lady of the Sea and return the episcopal seat to the city. After a vigorous campaign he was able to gain the support of many, including Victor Hugo and François-René de Chateaubriand, and soon had considerable public opinion behind him. Construction of his design began in 1827 with the building of the rotunda and continued for nearly fifty years. The dome that now dominates the town was finished in 1854 and its western towers were completed in the 1870s. However, despite the support that Haffreingue's campaign gathered, the bishop's seat was not returned to Boulogne and the building thus never regained its status as a cathedral. In 1879 the rebuilt church was declared a minor basilica.»
Collectives of Saints that are Martyrs or Isomartyrs- The Holy Martyrs of Roman Africa now Tunisia Saints Felix, Januarius, Marinus and Nabor, the only known names of a large group, their history is lost, it is not known if they were martyred by Roman Pagans, the Novatian or Donatist heretics, the Arian Vandals or the Muslim Infidels.
- The Holy Martyrs of Antioch Saints Diogenes, Domnina, Esicius or Isicius, Macarius, Maxima, Maximus, Rodigus, Timothy, Veronica and Zachaeus, their history is lost.
- The Holy Martyrs of Damascus — A group of Franciscans and laymen ordered by Druze Muslims to Apostatize, and were murdered on refusal of the filth: Saints Abd Al-Mu'ti Masabki, Carmelo Bolta Bañuls, Engelbert Kolland, Francis Pinazo Peñalver, Francis Masabki, John Jacob Fernández y Fernández, Manuel Ruiz López, Nicanor Ascanio de Soria, Nicholas María Alberca Torres, Peter Soler Méndez, and Rufayil Masabki, July 9-10, 1860 in Damascus, Syria.
- The Holy Martyrs of Ðong Hoi, Quang Bình, Vietnam, Saints Anthony Nguyen Huu Quynh and Peter Nguyen Khac Tu, laymen murdered by the Buddhists in Vietnam. Not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope.
- The Holy Martyrs of Nicopolis in Western Armenia under the Roman Emperor Licinius and the governor Lysias in 329 AD, 45 Saints, we have the names of only a few: Saints Anicetus, Anthony, Daniel, Leontius, Mauritius and Sisinnus.
- The Holy Martyrs of Nitria as recounted by St John Chrysostom, four monks and a bishop of Alexandria, Egypt who were martyred by heretics, however, their names have not come down to us.
- The Holy Martyrs of Odense King Saint Knut or Canute, IVth, King of Denmark, his brother St Benedict and 17 Companions, murdered by pagan Danes, July 10, 1086, while attending Holy Mass, out of Odium Dei, hatred of God, as Knut compelled the Danes to abjure the cult of the devils and embrace the Living God, Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Martyrs of Orange, Saints Agnes and Sophia, baptized names Sylvie-Agnès de Romillon and Marie-Gertrude de Ripert de Alauzier, French Ursuline nuns, murdered by the Satanists, Traitors, Apostates, Infidels of France, Maranos and Freemasons, for refusing to join in the worship of Satan, and for refusing to accept the illegal regime or Cleptarchy of the "Government of Revolutionary France" as "Popes of France" etc., Murdered by them, July 10, 1794 at Orange in the Vaucluse, in France.
- The Holy Martyrs of Pisidia or of Isauria Saints Bianorus and Silvanus, under Septimius Severus.
- The Holy Martyrs of Rome, the 7 Sons of St Felicitas, Saints Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis and Martialis, martyrs under Emperor Antoninus, the pagan priests were excited to jealousy seeing that the matron Felicitas no longer worshipped their demons, and instigated the Emperor against her and her sons, they were enjoined to worship the "ancient gods," but boldly replied, "These are neither gods nor omnipotent, but they are vain, wretched and lifeless idols; whoever wanted to sacrifice to them would be in perpetual danger. Those who worship demons will perish with them in eternal fire. All the gods of the heathen are demons. If you only knew what punishments are prepared for those who worship idols! But God is still waiting to show his anger against you and your idols. All who do not confess that Christ is true God will be thrown into eternal fire." The Seven Brothers were variously martyred on July 10, 165 in the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius. St Felicitas was murdered later, on November 23. (Account as collated by Fr George Ott, rector of Abendsberg, 1863). See also the account of St Albanus Butler: https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/101.html.
- The Holy Martyrs of Rome Saints Rufina and Secunda, July 10, 260. The information on the martyrdom of Rufina and Secondo are in agreement. Condemned, under Valerianus and Gallienus, by the prefect Junius Donatus, they were martyred in Rome at the tenth mile of the Via Cornelia. Tradition has it that they were sisters who, engaged to two young Christians who became apostates, devoted themselves to consecrated virginity. Having failed with every effort to induce them to apostasy and marriage, the two young men denounced them. Almost certainly, already in the fourth century, a basilica was erected on their tomb, perhaps by Pope Julius I, whose location is now impossible to indicate in a sure way. Rufina and Secondo, with their example, remind us that in a multireligious society like the one we are moving towards, the reasons for faith are superior to those of the heart.
- The Holy Martyrs of Tomis in Scythia Minor now Constanta in Romania St Marcianus and 44 companions. We have the names of only 6 of them, besides that of Marcianus: Saints Aemilianus, Aurelianus, Diomedes, Domus, John, and Sisimmus or Sesinus.
Collectives of Saints that are not Martyrs or Isomartyrs- Saints Landfried also called Lanzo, and Gailswinda or Geilswinda. Their other 2 siblings are also saints. The feasts of Waldram is on February 9, Landfried and Gailswinda is on July 10, and Eliland, is on August 14. These four siblings, children of the Swabian Duke Landfried, grandsons of Duke Theobald and Piltrudis, thus relatives of Charles Martel, became the founders of seven monasteries with their sister Gailswinda. After having suffered the vicissitudes of life, they decided to consecrate themselves and their goods for the church. Already in the year 740 in the wilderness at the Kochelsee, in a place that a human foot had seldom stepped and only wild animals inhabited, not far from the banks of the Loisach, the foundation of Landfried stood under shady trees, consecrated to St Benedict of Nursia which he called the Pure Benedictinum or Benedikta Pura in the then German tongue. Further up on the lake, his sister Gailswinda had converted her estate at Kochelsee into an apartment for women who preferred the consecrated life. Opposite, at the other end of the lake, Waldram built the Schlehdorf Monastery for men of the same conviction. The third brother Eliland used his property on Staffelsee for the same purpose. The properties that the four brothers and sisters consecrated to St Benedict consisted of six thousand seven hundred manses, which were inhabited by many families, even noble ones, and a wealth of furniture of inestimable value. But so that these Benedictine foundations would not lack for anything, the founders also handed over their estates near Reichenhall and their vineyards near Bozen in South Tyrol to these foundations. The three brothers then encouraged pious clergy to patronize these foundations. They brought together relics for the altars and the books necessary for worship, and applied for approval from the duke and bishops of Augsburg and Freising, in whose dioceses the monasteries were located. St Boniface was very happy to accept this invitation. First he traveled to the Franconian Hausmaier and obtained special privileges for these monasteries from him. Then he went to the area of the Alpine mountains, at the foot of which the abovementioned monasteries lay. On October 22, 742 he consecrated the church of Pura or Benediktbeuren in honor of St Benedict and St James the Apostle. Landfried became abbot of Pura and all of the monasteries founded by him and his siblings. They were supposed to be subject to the abbot of Pura forever. Lantfried was a well educated man, distinguished by noble decency and purity of morals. For five and twenty years he ran the monasteries that had been entrusted to his fatherly government. He did not wear the monk's robe himself, but kept his princely costume. He was followed by his brothers in the same office. Sons and daughters came from the noblest families and even from princely houses and asked for admission. The wife of the last Frankish king Childebert, who was removed from the throne and placed in a monastery, Queen St Gisila, went to Kochelsee and sought and found consolation in the founder of this monastery, St Gailswinda. The number of pious virgins and men who asked for admission to the monastery was soon so great that they could no longer be admitted. Now Landfried founded two more monasteries near Peissenberg, namely Polling and Wessobrunn for monks and the Sandau monastery for women. Thanks to the generosity of the subsequent Duke Thassilo II and the pious disposition of Count Engild and the young warrior Gramann, the already important holdings of these monasteries were greatly increased. (Seiters pp. 292 - 294)
Individual saints- St Aedh, of Cuil-Maine, now Clonmany, County of Donegal, Ireland. The only information is that he was a deacon.
- St Amalburga or Amelberga, her Dies Natalis at Ghent. A relative of St Pepin of Landen, duke of Brabant. Married young to Count Witger. Mother of Saints Gudula of Brussels, Emebert, and Reineldis, all of whom she taught herself, including religion. When the youngest was grown, both Amalburga and her husband retired to Benedictine houses, the Count to Lobbes, Amalburga to Maubeuge Abbey where she embraced a life of asceticism and prayer. Received the veil from St Willibrord of Echternach. She once crossed a lake by riding on the back of a giant sturgeon, which led to her representation on or with a fish.
- St Apollonius of Sardis, martyred by crucifixion at Iconium in Lycaonia, under the Prefect Perenius, for refusing to worship the Roman Emperor.
- St Arnold of Camerino, Mercedarian preacher and wonderworker.
- St Cuain or Cuan, of Airbhre, in Hy Kinsellagh, now called Ballybrennan, at Kilcowanmore, barony of Bantry, and county of Wexford, Ireland.
- St Etto, an Irish missionary in northern France and Flanders. Abbot of Saint Peter's monastery at Fescau, also called Dompierre, now in Belgium. Bishop of Fescau.
- St Nicholas Spira, Premonstratensian monk, abbot, died July 10, 1568.
- St Pacificus, a dissolute musician, converted by St Francis of Assisi.
- St Pascharius, bishop of Nantes and one of the founders of the monastery of Aindre.
- St Peter Vincioli, an architect, priest, monk, and abbot. Founded the monastery of Saint Peter in Perugia, Italy and oversaw both its construction and the construction or re-building of other structures in his diocese.
- St Senan, an Irishman, his history is lost.
DOUBTFUL- Anthony Pechersky, it seems that he died in the Schism of Michael Caerularius, and so, had abandoned the Christian religion, under the ban as declared by Unam Sanctam and Cantate Domino of the Council of Florence.
OREMUSMost Holy Mary, Mother of God, and our Mother, and all you Saints, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Popes, Archbishops, Bishops, Hermits, Monks, Martyrs, Virgins, Champions and Heroes of Jesus Christ, whose feasts is today, named and unnamed, we pray to you for your intercession and guidance, lead us away from error and evil and into the Grace and Love of God, that with your assistance, we may join you in Eternity with the Living God, we make this prayer through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who Lives and Reigns, in the Unity of the Godhead, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, forever and ever, Amen.Lúcío Mascarenhas.
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