ST MUMMOLIN, BISHOP OF NOYON, CONFESSOR - 16 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER

Saints celebrated on the 16th of October

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 MUMMOLIN, BISHOP OF NOYON, CONFESSOR 

Saint Mummolin (Mommolin) was a native of the territory of Constance, and became a monk at Luxeuil. He was sent with Ebartran and Bertin to St Omer, and was appointed superior rather than abbot, whilst they lived about eight years in their first habitation called the Old Monastery or St Mummolin’s. 

He removed with them to the New Monastery of St Peter’s or Sithiu, now St Bertin’s. 

Upon the death of St Eligius, in 659 or 665, he was consecrated bishop of Noyon and Tournay, and constituted Ebertran abbot of the monastery of St Quintin’s which he erected in that town not far from the ruins of Vermandis. 

This abbey is long since secularised, and is a famous collegiate church. Folcard tells us in his life of St Omer, that St Mummolin governed that extensive see twenty-six years. 

His name occurs in the subscriptions to the Testament of St Amand, and to several charters of that age. 

His body was interred in the church of the apostles, and is now richly enshrined in the cathedral of Noyon, but part of his skull at St Bertin’s. He is honoured in all these dioceses on the 16th of October. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Noyon Cathedral)