ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 11th of March
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SAINT CONSTANTINE, MARTYR
Saint Constantine [St Constantine II] is said to have been a British king, who, after the death of his queen, resigned the crown to his son, and became a monk in the monastery of St David.
HE JOINED ST COLUMBA
It is added that he afterwards went into North Britain, and joined St Columba in preaching the gospel amongst the Picts, who then inhabited a great part of what is now called Scotland.
HE FOUNDED A MONASTERY AT GOVANE
He founded a monastery at Govane, near the river, Cluyd, converted all the land of Cantire to the faith of Christ, and died a martyr by the hands of infidels, towards the end of the sixth century.
HE DIED A MARTYR
He was buried in his monastery of Govane, and divers churches were erected in Scotland under his invocation. But it seems most probable that the Scottish martyr is not the same person with the British king. Colgan supposes him to have been an Irish monk who had lived in the community of St Carthag, at Rathane.
NOTE:
Note: See the Lives of Scottish Saints, compiled by a Jesuit, who was nephew of Bishop Lesley, kept in the Scottish College at Paris. Several Scottish historians give the title of saint to Constantine III. king of the Scots, who, forsaking his crown and the world, entered himself amongst the Culdees, or religious men of St Andrew’s, in 946.
Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Constantine 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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