ST MAWES, CONFESSOR - 18 NOVEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 18th of November 

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SAINT MAWES, CONFESSOR 

"Maw" in the Cornish language signifies a boy. He was a native of Ireland, and came young into Cornwall that he might live to God alone in the closest solitude, in the practice of the most austere penance and the exercises of divine prayer. 

A CHURCH AND A HOLY WELL BEAR HIS NAME

His hermitage was on the sea-coast, near the spacious harbour of Falmouth. The place is still called St Mawes, in Latin S. Mauditi Castrum, where a church, and in the church-yard a chair of solid stone and a miraculous or holy well still bear his name. See Leland,  where he writes that this saint had been a bishop in Britain.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

[St Mawes is also known as Maudez, Maudé, Maudet, Maudetus, and Mandé.]

PRAYER:

O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of Mawes, your confessor, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in his merits, we may be inspired by his example. 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.