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   July 31st - St. Sidwell, Virgin, Martyr   
    (Also known as Sativola, Sidefulla)   
      
   Date unknown; feast day kept on July 31 in Roscarrock and August 2 in   
   Exeter. Saint Sidwell, probably of British rather than Anglo- Saxon lineage,   
   has been revered at Exeter from time immemorial. By AD 1000, pilgrims   
   gathered at her shrine. William Worcestre and Leland mention her. The late   
   medieval catalogue of English saints, called the "Catalogus sanctorum   
   pausantium in Anglia," has this entry:   
      
   "Born at Exeter, she was killed by her stepmother inciting the reapers to   
   behead her. She was buried outside the city, where by her merits God heals   
   the sick."   
      
   This story of the jealous stepmother is also included in the legend of Saint   
   Juthwara (f.d. July 1), who is supposed to be Sidwell's sister. There is   
   reason to believe that this legend is entirely mythical; although Sidwell is   
   a real saint.   
      
   Sidwell's Church is just outside the east gate of Exeter. Near it there used   
   to be a holy well, where presumably the cures took place. There is a   
   dedication to her in Laneast, Cornwall, with her sister Saint Wulvella,   
   where there was also a holy well (Benedictines, Farmer).   
      
   In art, Saint Sidwell is a maiden carrying a scythe by a well. She might   
   also be shown carrying her head (Roeder). The emblem of a "scythe" and a   
   "well," as well as the story, may derive from her name (Farmer). Sidwell is   
   venerated in Exeter, England (Roeder).   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural   
   science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of   
   before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong   
   habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have   
   not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of   
   self-destruction.   
   --Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne   
      
   Bible Quote   
   But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were   
   written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain   
   the books that should be written.  (John 21:25)   
      
      
   Psa 95:1  O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to   
   the rock of our salvation.   
   Psa 95:2  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a   
   joyful noise unto him with psalms.   
   Psa 95:3  For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.   
   Psa 95:4  In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the   
   hills is his also.   
   Psa 95:5  The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.   
   Psa 95:6  O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD   
   our maker.   
   Psa 95:7  For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the   
   sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,   
   Psa 95:8  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of   
   temptation in the wilderness:   
   Psa 95:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.   
   Psa 95:10  Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It   
   is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:   
   Psa 95:11  Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my   
   rest.   
      
      
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   O Sacred Banquet   
   (O Sacrum Convivium)   
      
   O sacred banquet, in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is   
   renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is   
   given to us.   
      
   V. Thou didst give them bread from heaven:   
   R. Containing in itself all sweetness.   
      
   Let us pray.   
   O God, who under a wonderful Sacrament hast left us a memorial of Thy   
   Passion; grant us, we beseech Thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of   
   Thy Body and Blood, that we may ever feel within ourselves the fruit of Thy   
   Redemption: Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. - Amen.   
      
   In Paschaltide the following prayer is said:   
      
   Pour upon us, O Lord, the Spirit of Thy love, to make us of one heart, whom,   
   by Thy tender mercy, Thou hast filled with the paschal sacrament. Through   
   Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the   
   unity of the same Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. - Amen.   
      
   - Roman Breviary   
      
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