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RAINGARDA, WIDOW - 26 JUNE

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 26th of June THE VENERABLE RAINGARDA, WIDOW Raingarda was by birth one of the principal ladies of Auvergne and Burgundy: but the maxims of our holy faith had, from her infancy, given her a relish and esteem only for other riches and other nobility than those of the earth.  SHE TOOK NO DELIGHT IN POMP She took no delight in the pomp which surrounded her; but sighed after the liberty of the saints, as a captive sighs for his enlargement, or a banished man for his own country. When any lover of the heavenly Jerusalem came to visit her, it was her great comfort to converse with such a one on the happiness of the life to come. She often prostrated herself on the ground before the servants of God, and bathing their feet with her tears, earnestly begged their prayers, and lamented with bitter sighs, that she was not able to do all the good she desired.  HER MARRIAGE She was married to Maurice, a nobleman of suitable birth and for...