The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, MarchButler, Alban
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March
Butler, Alban
Christian patron saints -- Biography; Christian saints -- Biography
great pestilence breaking out in England, St. Cedd died of it, in his
beloved monastery of Lestingay, in the mountainous part of Yorkshire,
since destroyed by the Danes, so that its exact situation is not known.
He was first buried in the open cemetery, but, not long after, a church
of stone being built in the same monastery, under the invocation of the
Blessed Virgin, the mother of our Lord, his body was removed, and laid
at the right hand of the altar. Thirty of the saint's religious brethren
in Essex, upon the news of his death, came to Lestingay, in the
resolution to live and die where their holy father had ended his life.
They were willingly received by their brethren, but were all carried off
by the same pestilence, except a little boy, who was afterwards found
not to have been then baptized, and being in process of time advanced to
the priesthood, lived to gain many souls to God. St. Cedd died on the
26th of October, but is commemorated in the English Martyrology on the
7th of January. See Bede, Hist. l. 3, c. 21, 22, 23. Wharton Hist.
Episc. Lond. &c.
ST. KENTIGERNA, WIDOW.
SHE is commemorated on the 7th of January, in the Aberdeen Breviary,
from which we learn, that she was of royal blood, daughter of Kelly,
prince of Leinster in Ireland, as Colgan proves from ancient monuments.
She was mother of the holy abbot St. Foelan, or Felan. After the death
of her husband, she left Ireland, and consecrated her to God in a
religious state, and lived in great austerity and humility, and died on
the 7th of January, in the year 728. Adam King informs us that a famous
parish church bears her name at Locloumont, in Inchelroch, a small
island into which she retired some time before her death, that she might
with greater liberty give herself up to heavenly meditation. See Brev.
Aberden. et Colgan ad 7 Jan. p. 23.
ST. ALDRIC, BISHOP OF MANS, C.
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