ST KESSOG, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 10 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH 

Saints celebrated on the 10th of March

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 KESSOG, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR 

(Saint Mackessoge, or Kessoge, Confessor - Bishop in the provinces of Levin and Boin in Scotland.) By his instructions and counsels the pious King Congal II governed with extraordinary prudence, zeal, and sanctity. 

HE WAS ILLUSTRIOUS FOR MIRACLES

This saint was illustrious for miracles, and died in 560. A celebrated church in that country still bears the title of Saint Kessoge-Kirk. The Scots for their cry in battle for some time used his name, but afterwards changed it for that of St Andrew. 

SOURCES

They sometimes painted St Kessoge in a soldier’s habit, holding a bow bent with an arrow in it. See the Aberdeen Breviary, the chronicle of Paisley, (a great monastery of regular canons in the shire of Renfrew,) Florarium, and Buchanan.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Kessog, your blessed bishop, 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.