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ST AEDH MAC BRICC - 10 NOVEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER 

Saints celebrated on the 10th of November

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SAINT AEDH MAC BRICC, BISHOP OF KILDARE 

Much information we have about this 6th century saint is contained in the Codex Salmanticensis. 

It presents Aedh as a peacemaker between Munster and the Ui Neill, and between Mide and Tethbae, befitting his cross-border descent through his mother, Eithne, from the neighbouring Munster people of Muscraige Tire (north-west Co. Tipperary).

AN EARLY LATIN LIFE

An early Latin Life of Aedh, dating from the period 750 - 850, survives also. Its central concerns are with local violence and with the poverty and insecurity of women, especially nuns. Aedh seems to have had a profound interest in the well-being of religious women. 

He frequently visited settlements of holy virgins who received him with the respect due to a man of his position. He died in 589. 

ST AID "MECHPRECH"

Medieval incantations against headache enumerate bodily organs to be protected. One 8th-century Latin hymn from Lake Constance using this device is addressed to St Aid "mechprech", who has been identified as Aedh Mac Bricc, Bishop of Kildare, 6th century. 

An episode in the Life in which he heals Brigid of headache is echoed in the ninth-century Irish life of Brigid. A stone close to the existing church is still associated with the curing of headaches. 

Information from Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ed_mac_Bricc - external link 

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Aedh 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.




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