SAINT MEINRAD, PRIEST AND MARTYR

SAINT MEINRAD, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 21 JANUARY

SAINT MEINRAD, PRIEST AND MARTYR

Saint Meinrad was a saint of Eastern France, who became when in his twenty-fifth year a monk at Reichenau, near Lake Constance.

HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST

After being ordained priest, he was employed for some years in the care of souls and in the instruction of youth.

SOLITUDE

But in middle life he felt called to solitude, and at length found a resting-place in a dense forest in Switzerland, where he built a cell and a chapel, placing therein a statue of the Blessed Virgin presented to him by a Benedictine Abbess.

OUR LADY OF THE HERMITS

This statue came to be called that of "Our Lady of the Hermits," and the chapel itself Einsiedeln (Hermitage).

Saint Meinrad, after several years passed there as a Recluse, was murdered by some ruffians, who thought to discover hidden treasures in the poor hermitage (A.D. 861).

HE IS TRADITIONALLY VENERATED AS A MARTYR

On the spot arose the celebrated Abbey of Einsiedeln, still flourishing in our own day. Saint Meinrad was canonised about A.D. 1000, and is traditionally venerated as a Martyr.

From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate

PRAYER:

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