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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 10th of July   WELCOME! SAINT ULRICH OF CLUNY, RELIGIOUS Born in Regensburg in 1015,  Saint Ulrich is also spelled Udalricus, Vuldaricus, Wldaricus, Waldarichus and Ulricus . His father's name was Bernolf (Bernulf). Ulrich was pious, collected and eager to learn. He was given to the court of Emperor Henry III, known as the Black, where he had to serve his second wife Agnes, but already in the middle of the 11th century Ulrich is mentioned as a deacon in Freising under the (auxiliary) bishop Nilo. During a famine, he once pledged all his goods here so that he could buy bread for those in need.  After he had then made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he bathed in the Jordan River and was almost murdered on the occasion, he and his friend  Gerard   renounced the world, distributed their wealth among the poor, and after a short stay in Rome joined Cluny at the time when Abbot Hugo (from 1049 to 1121...

  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...