ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 21st of July WELCOME! SAINT ARBOGASTUS, BISHOP OF STRASBOURG, CONFESSOR The Irish challenge this saint as a native of their island. The Scots also lay claim to him, and are supported by Richer’s Chronicle of Sens, written in the thirteenth century, and by the life of St Florentius, his successor, though his acts say he was of a noble family in Aquitaine. HE LED AN ANCHORETICAL LIFE Travelling into Alsace he led an anchoretical life in the Sacred Forest (for this is the interpretation of the Teutonic name Heiligesforst), about the year 630. He was often called to the court of King Dagobert II, and by his interest promoted to the episcopal see of Strasbourg. NUMEROUS MIRACLES His acts relate, that not long after his exaltation he raised to life Dagobert’s son, killed by a fall from a horse; these acts call this prince Sigebert; his name is not recorded by the historians. Many other miracles are ascribed to this...