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ST AUGULUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 7 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 7th of February

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SAINT AUGULUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR

(Saint Augulus, Bishop in England, and Martyr.) His name occurs with title of bishop in all the manuscript copies of the ancient Western Martyrology, which bears the name of St Jerome. 

HIS MARTYRDOM

That of the abbey of Esternach, which is very old, and several others, style him martyr. He probably received that crown soon after St Alban. 

ALL MARTYROLOGIES PLACE HIM IN BRITAIN

All martyrologies place him in Britain, and at Augusta, which name was given to London, as Marcellinus mentions; never to York, for which Henschenius would have it to be taken in this place, because it was at that time the capital of Britain. In the ancient copy of Bede’s martyrology, which was used at St Agnan’s at Orleans, he is called St Augustus; in some others St Augurius. The French call him St Aule. Chatelain thinks him to be the same saint who is famous in some parts of Normandy under the name of St Ouil.

From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed Bishop and Martyr Augulus commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. 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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