SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY   Saints celebrated on the 14th of July WELCOME! SAINT ULRICH OF ZELL, ABBOT (Wulderic; called also Ulric of Cluny , and of Ratisbon). He was born at Ratisbon, at the beginning of 1029; died at Zell, probably on July 10, 1093. Feast, July 14.  TWO LIVES OF HIM ARE EXTANT Two lives of him are extant: the first, written anonymously c. 1109 by a monk of Zell at the request of Adalbert, a recluse near Ratisbon; the other, also anonymous, written between 1109 and 1130. Particulars of his life are also contained in his writings. His parents, pious and rich, were Bernhold and Bucca, niece of Bishop Gebhard II. Ulrich probably received his education at St Emmeram, but in 1044 he was called to the court of his godfather, Henry IV, and acted as page to the Empress Agnes.  HE GAVE HIS POSSESSIONS TO THE POOR Ordained deacon by his uncle Nidger, Bishop of Freising, he was made archdeacon of the cathedral.  On his return from a journey to Rome...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 4th of July WELCOME! ST ULRICH, BISHOP OF AUGSBURG, CONFESSOR St Ulric [Ulrich, Udalric, Uldaric] was son of Count Hucbald, and of Thietberga, daughter of Burchard, one of the first dukes of Higher Germany. He was born in 893, and was educated from seven years of age in the abbey of St Gal. Guiborate, a holy virgin, who lived a recluse near that monastery, foretold him that he should one day be a bishop, and should meet with severe trials, but exhorted him to courage and constancy under them.  REGULARITY AND TEMPERANCE So delicate and tender was the complexion of the young nobleman that all who knew him judged he could not live long. But regularity and temperance preserved a life, and strengthened a constitution which excessive tenderness of parents, care of physicians, and all other arts would probably have the sooner worn out and destroyed: which Cardinal Lugo shows to have often happened by several instances in auster...