St Cecilia Celebrated on November 22nd Roman martyr, patron saint of music.Jan 24, 2023
According to legend, Cecilia was a Roman Christian from a patrician family who lived in the 2nd or 3rd century. She had decided to remain single and devote her life to God, but was forced into an arranged marriage. While the wedding guests danced at her wedding, she sat apart singing only the psalms. Read more
St Hilda of Whitby, St Hugh of Lincoln, the Martyrs of Paraguay Celebrated on November 17thJan 04, 2023
As a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon abbess, Hilda was one of the most influential Church
leaders of her day. At a time when the monasteries and their estates, rather than
parishes and dioceses, formed the basic ecclesial structures in Britain, Hilda exercised
largely the same administrative powers a… Read more
St Margaret of Scotland and St Edmund of Abingdon Celebrated on November 16thJan 04, 2023
Queen and patron of Scotland. Born in 1046, Margaret was educated mainly in Hungary,
where her family were exiled during the rule of the Viking kings in England. As one of the
last members of the Anglo Saxon royal family, she was in danger after the Norman
Conquest and took refuge at the court of… Read more
St Fintan Celebrated on November 15thDec 19, 2022
Hermit. Born in Leinster, in the 9th century, Fintan was captured and made a slave by Vikings who took him to the Orkneys. He escaped and was protected by a Scottish bishop whose name has been lost. Read more
St Laurence O'Toole Celebrated on November 14thDec 19, 2022
Archbishop of Dublin. Laurence (Lorcan O Tuathail) was born about 1128 in Co Kildare, of a marriage between the chieftain families O'Toole and O'Byrne. He spent most of his childhood as a hostage of Dermot McMurrogh, King of Leinster. Laurence became a monk at Glendalough and was elected abbot at the… Read more