ST EINGAN, CONFESSOR - 21 APRIL

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL

Saints celebrated on the 21st of April

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.

SAINT EINGAN, CONFESSOR

Eneon Bhrenin, called by the Latin writers of the Scottish history, Anianus, was a king of the Scots, in a considerable part of North Britain, and son of Owen Danwyn, the son of Eneon Yrth, son of Cunedha, Wlegin, king of Cambria, a very powerful prince in the southern parts of Scotland, in which Cumberland and the neighbouring parts of England were then comprised. 

HIS FAMILY

Eingan was cousin-german to the great Maelgwn Gwyneth, king of Britain in North Wales, whose father was Caswallon lawhir, the brother of Owen Danwyn; and his mother Medif, daughter of Voilda ap Talu Traws, of Nanconwey, near Bangor. 

HE WENT TO GWYNETH

Eingan, or Eigan, leaving his royalty in the North, went into Gwyneth, the old name of North Wales, probably from the great prince of that name. 

THE CHURCH

There he retired to Lhyn, or Lheyn, now a deanery in the diocese and archdeaconry of Bangor. In that part he built a church, and spent the remainder of his days in the fear and service of God. He seems to have died about the year 590. St Eingan is titular saint of this church, called to this day Llanengan.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Llanengan church)