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Lutgardis was born in what is now Belgium in the year of Our Lord 1182. She was a beautiful girl, mostly interested in fine clothing and worldly amusements, but when her potential dowry was lost, she was sent to a Benedictine convent. She seemed to have no vocation until she received a vision of Our Lord, while she was still a teenager. She immediately took Christ as her spouse, becoming a Benedictine nun. Lutgardis went on to experience many other visions of Our Lord, Our Lady, and the saints, accompanied by ecstasies, levitations, and miraculous bleeding from her forehead. Eventually she sought an even stricter rule than that of the Benedictines. Refusing the desire of her fellow sisters to make her their abbess, Lutgardis joined a Cistercian convent near Brussels on the advice of her friend St. Christina the Astonishing. For the last eleven years of her life, Lutgardis suffered from blindness, which she gratefully accepted as a gift from God that increased her detachment from the world. She received one of the first recorded revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Our Lord also revealed to her the exact day of her death, in the year of Our Lord 1246. Lutgardis is a patroness of the blind and otherwise handicapped, and of women in childbirth.
AT Besancon, in France, the holy martyrs Ferreol, priest, and Ferrution, deacon, who were sent by the blessed bishop Irenaeus to preach the word of God, and after being exposed to various torments under the judge Claudius, were put to the sword.
At Tarsus, in Cilicia, in the reign of the emperor Diocletian, the holy martyrs Quiricus, and Julitta, his mother. Quiricus, a child of three years, seeing his mother cruelly scourged in the presence of the governor Alexander, and crying bitterly, was killed by being dashed against the steps of the tribunal. Julitta, after being subjected to severe stripes and grievous torments, closed the career of her martyrdom by decapitation.
At Mayence, the passion of the Saints Aurens, and Justina, his sister, and other martyrs, who, being at Mass in the church, were massacred by the Huns then devastating Germany.
At Amathonte, in Cyprus, St. Tychon, a bishop in the time of Theodosius the Younger.
At Lyons, the demise of blessed Aurelian, bishop of Aries.
At Nantes, in Brittany, St. Similian, bishop and confessor.
At Meissen, in Germany, St. Benno, bishop.
In the village of La Louvesc, formerly of the diocese of Vienne in Dauphiny, the decease of St. John Francis Regis, confessor, of the Society of Jesus, distinguished by his zeal for the salvation of souls, and by his patience. He was placed on the list of Saints by Clement XII.
In Brabant, St. Lutgard, virgin.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.