ST IÄ OF CORNWALL - 3 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 3rd of February

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST IÄ OF CORNWALL, MISSIONARY

Saint Iä (Hia, Ia, Hya) was daughter to an Irish nobleman, and a disciple of St Barricus; Iä and Erwine, and many others, came out of Ireland into Cornwall, and landed at Pendinas, a stony rock and peninsula.

At her request Dinan, a lord of the country, built there a church, since called St Iës, eighteen miles from Saint Piran’s in the Sands, on the Severn.

THE CHURCHES AND PARISHES

St Carantoke’s is two miles above St Piran’s. St Iës stands two miles from Lannant; St Erth is a parish church two miles above Lannant. St Cua and St Tedy’s parishes are situated in the same part. St Lide’s Island, where her tomb was formerly visited by the whole country, still retains her name. (See the Life of St Iä quoted by Leland, Coll. t. 3. p. 11.)

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Detail of the parish church in St Ives, Cornwall)