ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 7th of January
ST KENTIGERNA, WIDOW
Saint Kentigerna is commemorated on January 7, in the Aberdeen Breviary, from which we learn, that she was of royal blood, daughter of Kelly, prince of Leinster in Ireland, as Colgan proves from ancient monuments.
She was mother of the holy abbot St Foelan or Felan.
SHE LIVED IN GREAT AUSTERITY AND HUMILITY
After the death of her husband, she left Ireland, and consecrated herself to God in a religious state, and lived in great austerity and humility, and died on January 7, 728. Adam King informs us, that a famous parish church bears her name at Locloumont, in Inchelroch, a small island into which she retired some time before her death, that she might with greater liberty give herself up to heavenly meditation.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 The site of the former St Kentigerna Church)
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