SAINT FEAST DAY 8 OCTOBER: ST KEYNA , VIRGIN

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER 

Saints celebrated on the 8th of October

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SAINT KEYNA, VIRGIN

Braghan, prince of part of Wales, who has left his name to Brecknockshire, was happy in an offspring of saints. 

A RECLUSE IN A WOOD 

The most famous were St Canoc, who founded many monasteries in Ireland; and Saint Keyna, surnamed by the Welsh, The Virgin, who lived a recluse in a wood in Somersetshire, at a distance from her own country, near the town of Cainsham, which seems so called from her, and stands on the Avon not far from Bristol. 

SERPENTS TURNED INTO STONES

Spiral stones in the figure of serpents have been found in that country, which some of the people pretend to have been serpents turned into stones by her prayers. They seem either petrifactions or sports of nature in uncommon crystallizations in a mineral soil. 

MONUMENTS REMINDING OF ST KEYNA

St Keyna is said to have died in her own country in the fifth or sixth century. Many places in Wales are filled with monuments of the great veneration which was formerly paid to this saint.

From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Keyna may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.