Spiritual Bouquet: If you forgive men their offenses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you your offenses. St. Matthew
6:14 Bishop of Orleans This Saint was born at Orleans of a very
illustrious family. At his birth his parents dedicated him to
God, for his mother had been advised in a vision that he would
some day be Bishop of the city of Orleans. They took great care
to form both his mind and his heart. His improvement in virtue
kept pace with his progress in learning; he meditated
assiduously on the sacred writings, especially on Saint Paul’s
manner of speaking on the world and its enjoyments, calling them
mere empty shadows which deceive us and vanish away. These
reflections at length sank so deeply into his mind that he
resolved to leave the world. To put this design in execution,
about the year 714 he retired to the abbey of Jumiege in
Normandy, where he spent six or seven years in the practice of
penitential austerities and obedience. When his uncle, the
bishop of Orleans, died, the senate and peo