ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 10th of August
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
ST BLANE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR
Blane (or Blaan) was Bishop and Confessor in Scotland, born on the island of Bute, date unknown; he died 590. His feast is kept on August 10.
HE WAS A NEPHEW OF ST CATHAN
He was a nephew of St Cathan, and was educated in Ireland under SS. Comgall and Kenneth; he became a monk, went to Scotland, and eventually was bishop among the Picts.
HE WAS BISHOP AMONG THE PICTS
Several miracles are related of him, among them the restoration of a dead boy to life. The Aberdeen Breviary gives these and other details of the saint’s life, which are rejected however, by the Bollandists.
HIS MONASTERY BECAME THE SITE OF TJE CATHEDRAL OF DUNBLANE
There can be no doubt that devotion to St Blane was, from early times, popular in Scotland. His monastery became the site of the Cathedral of Dunblane.
THE YEAR OF HIS DEATH
There was a church of St Blane in Dumfries and another at Kilblane. The year of the saint’s death is variously given as 446, 590, and 1000; 446 (Butler, Lives of the Saints) is evidently incorrect; the date 1000, found in Adam King, "Calendar of Scottish Saints" (Paris, 1588), in Dempster, "Menologium Scotorum" (Bonn, 1622), and in the "Acta SS.", seems to have crept in by confusing St Kenneth, whose disciple Blane was, with a Kenneth who was King of Scotland about A.D. 1000. The highest authorities say the saint died 590.
THE CHURCH AT KINGARTH, BUTE
The ruins of his church at Kingarth, Bute, where his remains were buried, are still standing and form an object of great interest to antiquarians; the bell of his monastery is preserved at Dunblane.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 📷 The ruins of his church at Kingarth, Bute, where his remains were buried, are still standing)
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