ST FEDLIMID, BISHOP - 9 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 9th 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 FEDLIMID, BISHOP 

St Fedlimid (Felimy, Feidlimid), Bishop of Kilmore, lived in the sixth century. He is presumed to have been brother to St Dermod, Abbot of Iniscloghran. 

HE WAS THE BROTHER OF ST DERMOD

He died on August 9, and seems the same whom the registry of Clogher styles bishop of Cluain or Clunes, near Lough-Erne, and says he was buried there near St Tigernagh, first bishop of that see.

These two brothers were contemporaries of St Kiaran of Clonmacnoise, who died in 549, and of St Senan, who died in 544.

BISHOP OF KILMORE

St Fedlimid was bishop of Kilmore, which name signifies great church or cell, though the bishopric was only fixed at Kilmore in the great church of St Fedlimid there, (which was before only parochial, but is now the cathedral,) by the confirmation of Pope Nicholas V in 1454, and is often styled Brefiniensis or Triburnensis, because it was before settled at Brefiny or Brefne, and afterwards at Triburna, now an obscure village. 

St Fedlimid’s festival is kept with great solemnity throughout this diocese with an octave and indulgence. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)