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ST ULRICH, BISHOP OF AUGSBURG - 4 JULY

  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...