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ST MOLOC, BISHOP - 25 JUNE

 

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 SAINT MOLOC, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR

St Moloc was a Scotsman, and a zealous assistant of St Boniface of Ross in his apostolic labours, in the seventh century. The relics of St Moloc were kept with great veneration at Murlach. 

ST MOLOC'S INTERCESSION

When Sweno, the Danish king, sent out of England a barbarous army under the conduct of Olaf and Enet, king Malcolm II after having been at first discomfited by them, overcame them in a second battle near Murlach, which victory he ascribed to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and St Moloc, which with his whole army he had earnestly implored. 

THE ABBEY

In thanksgiving he founded at Murlach, in 1010, an abbey under their joint invocation, together with a stately cathedral church which he adorned with an episcopal see, though this was afterwards translated to Aberdeen. 

A SECOND AND THIRD MONASTERY

The Danes in two other engagements were entirely routed by this religious prince, who perpetuated the memory of the former of these victories by building a second monastery under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the town of Brechin, near which the battle was fought, and by raising an obelisk on the spot, still standing in a village called Cuin, from the name of a Danish general who was there slain. 

For a memorial of his last victory he erected on the place where it was gained a third abbey called Deir, in the county of Buchan, which soon after adopted the Cistercian rule, and flourished till the change of religion in 1550. 

FAMOUS ALL OVER SCOTLAND

The name of St Moloc was famous over all Scotland, especially in the counties of Argyle and Ross. A considerable portion of his relics was honoured in a famous church which still bears his name at Lismore in Argyleshire. 

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

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