ST CONON, BISHOP OF THE ISLE OF MAN - 26 JANUARY

 

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SAINT CONON, BISHOP OF THE ISLE OF MAN 

If we can give credit to some lives of Saint Fiaker, and the old Breviary of Limoges, that saint was son of Eugenius, king of Scotland, and by his father committed in his childhood, with his two brothers, to the care of St Conon, from which saintly education he received that ardent love and perfect spirit of piety, by which he was distinguished during the whole course of his life. 

A SAINT FROM HIS INFANCY

Conon, by the purity and fervour in which he served God, was a saint from his infancy. The Isle of Man, which was a famous ancient seat of the Druids, is said to have received the seeds of the Christian faith, by the zeal of St Patrick. 

THE BISHOPRIC

St Conon, passing thither from Scotland, completed that great work, and is said to have been made bishop of Man, or of Sodor, supposed by these authors to have been anciently a town in this island. This bishopric was soon after united with that of the Hebrides or the Western Islands, which see was fixed in the Isle of Hi, Iona or Y-colmkille. 

HIS DEATH

St Conon died in the Isle of Man, about the year 648. His name continued to the change of religion, in great veneration throughout the Hebrides, or islands on the West of Scotland. 

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

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