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   July 1st - Saint Gal, Bishop of Clermont   
    (died 553)   
      
   Saint Gal was born at Clermont in Auvergne, about the year 489. His father   
   was   
   of the first families of that province, and his mother a descendant of the   
   celebrated Roman martyr Vettius Apagatus, who suffered at Lyons for the   
   faith of   
   Christ. They both took special care of the education of their son, and when   
   he   
   reached a suitable age proposed to have him marry the daughter of a senator.   
   The   
   Saint, who had taken a resolution to consecrate himself to God, left his   
   father's house and went to the monastery of Cournon near the city of   
   Clermont.   
   He earnestly prayed to be admitted there among the monks, and having soon   
   afterwards obtained the consent of his parents, with joy he renounced all   
   worldly vanities to embrace religious poverty.   
      
   His virtues distinguished him and recommended him to Quintianus, bishop of   
   Clermont, who taught him theology and was his spiritual director; he then   
   promoted him to Holy Orders. When the bishop died in 527, Saint Gal was   
   appointed to succeed him. In this new character his humility, charity, zeal,   
   and   
   above all his patience in bearing injuries, were conspicuous. Once when   
   struck   
   on the head by a brutal man, Saint Gal did not reveal the slightest emotion   
   of   
   anger or resentment, and by this meekness disarmed his attacker's rage.   
      
   Saint Gal participated in the important Council of Clermont in 535; six   
   years   
   later he took part in the Fourth Council of Orleans. He died in the year 553   
   after an illness which, by the sufferings it occasioned him, manifested once   
   more his remarkable patience. After singing the Psalm Miserere, and another   
   in   
   thanksgiving, he gave up his holy soul to God. Many miracles occurred at his   
   tomb; he is invoked especially against fevers.   
      
   Sources: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler's   
   Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger   
   Brothers:   
   New York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul   
   Guérin   
   (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and   
   prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy   
   Mother, the hierarchical Church.   
   -Saint Ignatius of Loyola   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and   
   forsaketh   
   them shall have mercy.  (Proverbs 28:13)   
      
      
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   In honor of the Most Precious Blood for the month of July, the Seven   
   Offerings   
   of the Most Precious Blood:   
      
   I. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus,   
   Thy   
   well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for my dear Mother, the holy Church,   
   that she may enlarge her borders and be magnified among all the nations of   
   the   
   earth; for the safety and well-being of her visible head, the sovereign   
   Roman   
   Pontiff; for the cardinals, bishops, and pastors of souls, and for all the   
   ministers of Thy sanctuary.   
      
   Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as It was in   
   the   
   beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.  Amen.   
      
   Blessing and thanksgiving be evermore to Jesus, Who with His Blood hath   
   saved   
   us!   
      
   II. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus,   
   Thy   
   well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for peace and union among all   
   Catholic   
   kings and princes, for the humiliation of the enemies of our holy Faith, and   
   for   
   the welfare of all Christian people.   
      
   Glory be...  Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   III. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of   
   Jesus,   
   Thy well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for the repentance of   
   unbelievers,   
   for the uprooting of heresy, and for the conversion of sinners.   
      
   Glory be...  Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   IV. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus,   
   Thy   
   well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for all my kindred, friends, and   
   enemies; for the poor, the sick, and wretched, and for all for whom Thou, my   
   God, knowest that I ought to pray, or wouldst have me pray.   
      
   Glory be...  Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   V. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus,   
   Thy   
   well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for all who, this day, are passing   
   to   
   the other life; that Thou wouldst save them from the pains of hell, and   
   admit   
   them quickly to the possession of Thy glory.   
      
   Glory be...  Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   VI. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus,   
   Thy   
   well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for all those who love this great   
   treasure, for those who join with me in adoring it and honoring it, and who   
   strive to spread devotion to it.   
      
   Glory be...  Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   VII. Eternal Father!  I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of   
   Jesus,   
   Thy well-beloved Son, my Savior and my God, for all my wants, spiritual and   
   temporal, in aid of the holy souls in purgatory, and chiefly for those who   
   most   
   loved this precious Blood, the price of our redemption, and who were most   
   devout   
   to the sorrows and pains of most holy Mary, our dear Mother.   
      
   Glory be...   Blessing and thanksgiving...   
      
   (Conclude with)  Glory be to the Blood of Jesus; now and forever, and   
   throughout   
   all ages!  Amen.   
      
   Imprimatur: +John Farley, Archbishop of New York, Sept 19, 1908.   
      
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