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   Turn out all thoughts of doubt and fear   
      
      Turn out all thoughts of doubt and fear and resentment. Never   
   tolerate them if you can help it. Bar the windows and doors of your   
   mind against them, as you would bar your home against a thief who   
   would steal in to take away your treasures. What greater treasures can   
   you have than faith and courage and love? All these are stolen from   
   you by doubt and fear and resentment. Face each day with peace and   
   hope. They are results of true faith in God. Faith gives you a feeling   
   of protection and safety that you can get in no other way.   
      I pray that I may feel protected and safe, but not only when I am   
   in the harbor. I pray that I may have protection and safety even in   
   the midst of the storms of life.   
   --From 24 Hours a Day   
      
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   May 17th – St. Madron of Cornwall, Hermit (AC)   
    (Also known as Maden, Madern)   
      
   Died near Land's End, Cornwall, c. 545. Saint Madron, a hermit in   
   Brittany of Cornish descent, is the patron of many churches, including   
   the site of his hermitage at Saint Madern's Well in Cornwall and two   
   parishes in Saint-Malo. Many miracles are ascribed to Saint Madron,   
   including one experienced, investigated, and attested to by the   
   Protestant bishop of Exeter, Dr. Joseph Hall, a strong opponent of   
   Catholicism who wrote “Dissuasive from Popery” to W. D. In “On the   
   Invisible World” he wrote of the miraculous cure at Saint Madern's   
   Well:   
      
   "The commerce that we have with the good spirits is not now discerned   
   by the eye, but is, like themselves, spiritual. Yet not so, but that   
   even in bodily occasions we have many times insensible helps from   
   them; in such manner as that by the effects we can boldly say: Here   
   hath been an angel, though we see him not. Of this kind was that (no   
   less than miraculous) cure which at Saint Madern's in Cornwall was   
   wrought upon a poor cripple, John Trelille, whereof (besides the   
   attestation of many hundreds of neighbors) I took a strict and   
   personal examination in that last visitation which I either did or   
   ever shall hold. This man, that for 16 years together was fain to walk   
   upon his hands, by reason of the close contraction of the sinews of   
   his legs (upon three admonitions in a dream to wash in that well), was   
   suddenly so restored to his limbs, that I saw him able to walk and get   
   his own maintenance. I found here was neither art nor collusion: the   
   thing done, the author invisible."   
      
   Another writer of the same period gives a fuller account of the same   
   miraculous cure:   
      
   "I will relate one miracle more done in our own country, to the great   
   wonder of the neighboring inhabitants, but a few years ago, viz.,   
   about the year 1640. The process of the business was told the king   
   when at Oxford, which he caused to be further examined. It was this: a   
   certain boy of 12 years old, called John Trelille, in the county of   
   Cornwall, not far from the Land's End, as they were playing at   
   football, snatching up the ball ran away with it; whereupon a girl in   
   anger struck him with a thick stick on the backbone, and so bruised or   
   broke it, that for 16 years after he was forced to go creeping on the   
   ground. "In this condition he arrived to the twenty-eighth year of his   
   age, when he dreamed that if he did but bathe in Saint Madern's well,   
   or in the stream running from it, he should recover his former   
   strength and health. This is a place in Cornwall from the remains of   
   ancient devotion still frequented by Protestants on the Thursdays in   
   May, and especially on the feast of Corpus Christi; near to which well   
   is a chapel dedicated to Saint Madern, where is yet an altar, and   
   right against it a grassy hillock (made every year anew by the country   
   people) which they call Saint Madern's bed. The chapel-roof is quite   
   decayed; but a kind of thorn of itself shooting forth of the old   
   walls, so extends its boughs that it covers the whole chapel, and   
   supplies as it were a roof.   
      
   "On a Thursday in May, assisted by one Periman his neighbor,   
   entertaining great hopes from his dream, thither he crept, and lying   
   before the altar, and praying very fervently that he might regain his   
   health and the strength of his limbs, he washed his whole body in the   
   stream that flowed from the well, and ran through the chapel: after   
   which, having slept about an hour and a half on Saint Madern's bed,   
   through the extremity of pain he felt in his nerves and arteries, he   
   began to cry out, and his companion helping and lifting him up, he   
   perceived his hams and joints somewhat extended, and himself become   
   stronger, insomuch, that partly with his feet, partly with his hands,   
   he went much more erect than before.   
      
   "Before the following Thursday he got two crutches, resting on which   
   he could make shift to walk, which before he could not do. And coming   
   to the chapel as before, after having bathed himself he slept on the   
   same bed, and awaking found himself much stronger and more upright;   
   and so leaving one crutch in the chapel, he went home with the other.   
      
   "The third Thursday he returned to the chapel. and bathed as before,   
   slept, and when he awoke rose up quite cured; yea, grew so strong,   
   that he wrought day-labor among other hired servants; and four years   
   after listed himself a soldier in the kings army, where he behaved   
   himself with great stoutness, both of mind and body at length, in   
   1644, he was slain at Lime in Dorsetshire."   
      
   The author emphasizes notice that Thursday and Friday were the days   
   chosen out of devotion to the blessed Eucharist and the Passion of   
   Christ.   
      
   This well-attested miracle aroused interest in Saint Madron, but still   
   little is known about the saint except for the dedications in Cornwall   
   and Brittany. He has been identified as Saint Medran, the disciple of   
   Saint Kieran, the Welsh Saint Padarn, or a local man that accompanied   
   Saint Tudwal to Brittany (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson,   
   Husenbeth).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   A man ought never to think he has done any good, or rest contented   
   with any degree of perfection he may have attained, because Christ has   
   given us the type of our perfection in putting before us the   
   perfection of the Eternal Father: "Be ye perfect, even as your   
   Heavenly Father is perfect.   
   -- St. Philip   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you,   
   that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit   
   should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name,   
   he may give it you.  (John 15:16)   
      
      
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