Calendar Class of July 15, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

While I personally don't find fishing very alluring, Cordelia, our Jewel of the Sea, is a most enthusiastic fishergirl. Grandma is taking her to pick up her very own fishing rod today.

Here's some info about the Welsh Cordelia: The Welsh equivalent of the name Cordelia is Creiddylad. While Cordelia itself has links to Latin and potentially French, it's believed to be associated with the Welsh name Creiddylad. Creiddylad is a figure from Welsh mythology, the daughter of King Lludd. The name is sometimes also translated to "jewel of the sea"

Shakespeare's Cordelia is based on a character from British/Welsh legends, and that character is traditionally identified with Creiddylad. 

Liturgical: Tuesday of the 15th Week of Ordinary Time

Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Psalm 69

Sanctoral: Bonaventure (1221 – July 15, 1274)

Bonaventure so united holiness and theological knowledge that he rose to the heights of mysticism while remaining a very active preacher and teacher, one beloved by all who met him. To know him was to love him; to read him is still for us today to meet a true Franciscan and a gentleman. (Pope Benedict XVI was s big fan, and another great gentleman)

Human: Birthday of Rembrandt (artist) – 1606, Clement Moore (writer) – 1779, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (missionary) – 1850

Natural: St. Swithin’s Day

St. Swithin was a beloved ninth-century bishop of Winchester, England, who requested that he be buried in the churchyard—some say to be close to the common people, whom he loved; some say so that he could enjoy God’s gift of rain for all eternity. When he died in 862, his request was honored. About 100 years later, however, it was deemed unseemly that so holy a man should rest in a common grave. On July 15, the saint’s feast day, the people attempted to enshrine his remains in his church. Legend has it, however, that St. Swithin caused torrential rains to fall for 40 days, until the intended transfer was abandoned. This is the source of a very old Scottish weather proverb regarding rain on July 15: “St. Swithin’s Day if thou dost rain, / For forty days it will remain.

Italian : Siepe (hedge)

Quote: "As 'pride is the beginning of all sin,' so humility is the foundation of all virtue." -- St. Bonaventure