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Louis his nephew, son of Charles II, King of Naples, and his good life and his deeds drawn from the hand of God, sealed with the same seal, glorified by the same canonization, and the feast celebrated in the same month, in the same week, as are his two first predecessors, who meet in the same octave An eight-day period of celebration in the Church calendar. in the month of August.
The 2nd day of August was ill-omened to the Athenians.
Of which the 2nd day was in truth ill-omened among the Athenians, who passed the sponge over it and removed it from their Olympiads The four-year periods used by ancient Greeks to track time., because on such a day, the Gods Neptune and Minerva had debated the Lordship of Athens; desiring to entirely uproot such an unpleasant history from their Fasti or Annals Historical records or calendars..
But quite to the contrary, I wish to instill in the memory of all peoples this month of August: because our two Saints Louis, who trample underfoot all these false deities of the ancients, are found canonized in it: And that in the same month our most Christian King Louis XIII set out for Guyenne to remove all the dispute that rebellion and heresy—two false deities—had brought forth in his country of Béarn: and departing from the city of Bordeaux on St. Michael’s Day, he went to hear Mass in the Church which bears that August name, to gather intelligence before departing, and to consult the Oracle of his good Angel St. Michael, Patron of France.
And on the following 2nd of October (a solemn day for me) having crossed the Garonne, eldest daughter of that great Ocean, the same good Angel guided him toward my Mountain: a happy day and month, from which one must henceforth date the Holy principle and happy beginning of the extermination of heresy, by a King of twenty years, for whom God has caused to be undertaken and finished such heroic and bold deeds, that before being executed, doubting the outcome, his most faithful [advisors] dared not counsel him, nor his most zealous servants hope, nor—