ST BRYNOTH I., BISHOP OF SCARA, CONFESSOR - 9 MAY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY

Saints celebrated on the 9th of May

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 BRYNOTH I., BISHOP OF SCARA, CONFESSOR 

St Sigfrid, apostle of Sweden, consecrated St Unno, an Englishman, first bishop of Scara, in the province of West-Gothland, in Sweden. 

THE TWENTY-SECOND BISHOP

Brynoth, son of Algoth Fulcong, was from him the twenty-second bishop of this church, which he governed thirty-eight years with admirable zeal and sanctity, and dying on February 6, 1317, was honoured in Sweden amongst the saints. 

FURTHER READING

See the catalogue of the bishops of Scara, in Swedish verses, divided into stanzas, written under their pictures in the palace of stone, built by Brynoth III bishop of that see in the decline of the fifteenth century, preserved by Benzelius, junior, in Monum. Ecclesiæ Suevogothicæ; see also on this saint, Messenius, in Chronologia Scondiæ, ad annos 1278, 1287, 1289, 1317, and Analectorum, t. 2, p. 131, 139, 141; and his Historia Sanctorum et Præsulum Scondiæ, aucta a Joan. Perinksgioldo, in Messenius’s Scondia Illustrata. Stockholmiæ, 1700. See also John Vastovius, published by Benzelius, p. 78.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)