Celtic Saints for January 6

[Celtic Daily]

St. Schottin (Schotin, Scarthin), Hermit of Kilkenny
-------------------------------------------
6th century. While still a youth, Schotin left Ireland to become a
disciple of Saint David in Wales. For many years after his return to
Ireland he led the life of an anchorite at Mt. Mairge, Leix. He is said
to have established a school for boys at Kilkenny.

Troparion of St Schotin tone 4
0 disciple of Dewi Sant./ Flower of the wilderness and teacher of the
young./ Holy Schotin, in life thou didst serve Christ./ Wherefore , O
Saint intercede that by following thee in all piety and Godly quiet,/ we
may attain eternal life.


St. Diman Dubh of Connor, Bishop
--------------------------------------------------
(also known as Dimas, Dima)
Died 658. Diman Dubh (Diman the Black) was a monk under Saint Columba,
and afterwards abbot and bishop of Connor. He is one of the prelates to
whom the Roman Church, after the death of Pope Honorius in 640,
addressed the epistle on the paschal controversy and on Pelagianism.


St. Edeyrn (Edern), Hermit
-------------------------------------
6th century. He is the patron saint of a church in Brittany. Tradition
describes him as a Briton, associating him with King Arthur, and making
him end his days as a hermit in Armorica (Benedictines). Saint Edeyrn is
depicted in art as a hermit riding on a stag. He is venerated in
Brittany.


St. Eigrad
--------------
6th century. Saint Eigrad, a brother of Saint Samson, was trained by
Saint Illtyd, and founded a church in Anglesey.


St. Hywyn (Owen, Ewen) of Aberdaron
-------------------------------------------------------
Died after 516. Saint Hywyn was probably a companion of Saint Cadfan on
his return journey from Brittany in 516 to Cornwall and Wales. He is
said to have been the founder of Aberdaron in Carnarvonshire. Several
churches in western England known as Saint Owen's or Saint Ewen's
possibly have Hywyn for their titular saint.



St. Melanius of Rennes, Bishop
----------------------------------------------
Died c. 530. With Saint Remi, Melanius shares the title of Apostle of
France. Melanius, a Breton by birth, was bishop of Rennes during the
critical time when the Franks were overrunning Gaul. He is said to have
almost completely succeeded in abolishing idolatry from his diocese and
was highly revered by King Clovis (Benedictines, Encyclopaedia). In art,
Saint Melanius is depicted with a ship carrying his corpse sailing
upstream. Sometimes the bishop stands on a devil or he is shown driving
out the devil.


St. Merinus the Hermit
---------------------------
6th century. A disciple of Dunawd of Bangor (Ireland), Merinus is the
titular saint of churches in Wales and Brittany.


St. Peter of Canterbury, Abbot
-------------------------------------------
Died c. 606-608; feast at Saint Augustine's in Canterbury is kept on
December 30. Saint Peter was a monk at Saint Andrew's Monastery in Rome
until, in 596, he was sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great to England
with the first group of missionaries under Saint Augustine of
Canterbury. In 602, Peter became the first abbot of SS. Peter and Paul
(afterwards Saint Augustine's) at Canterbury.

Saint Peter was probably the monk delegated by Augustine to take news to
the pope of the first Anglo-Saxon conversions. He then brought back
Saint Gregory's replies to Augustine's questions. Later Peter was
dispatched on a mission to Gaul, but was drowned in the English Channel
at Ambleteuse (Amfleet) near Boulogne. According to the Venerable Bede,
the local inhabitants buried him in an "unworthy place" but, as the
result of a prodigy of mysterious light appearing over his grave at
night, translated his relics to a church in Boulogne with suitable
honour.


Sent out at approximately midnight G.M.T.

RSS Feeds available at
http://groups.google.co.nz/group/celtic-daily/feeds?hl=en