ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 16th of October
SAINT KIARA, VIRGIN
Saint Kiara was of a noble Irish family from Muskerry, and lived for some time with her maidens at Techtelle, in the county of Westmeath. This place had been given to her by St Fintan Munn. St Kiara later founded a monastery a few miles southwest of Cork, which was named Kilkere after her. There she is buried and also venerated.
St Kiara is also known as Kyaer, Kyear, Cera, Cier, Ciar, Cyra). The Bollandists* mention her in the Life of St Munnn or Fintan, a disciple of St Columba (Columcille). In Dr Kelly's Mart. Taml.* she is called Cere filia Duibhrea, and St Fintan is referred to as Finntan Mac Tulchan i. Munna.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 648)
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Kiara 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.
➡️ Irish Confessors and Martyrs
🇮🇪 PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART FOR IRELAND 🇮🇪
O most Sacred and most Loving Heart of Jesus! to which the Irish nation is most solemnly dedicated, preserve our nation in faith, in purity, and in charity. Through all its trials, its sorrows, its persecutions in the past, it remained faithful to the teaching of its great Apostle, St Patrick. May the former glory of its apostolic faith again appear.
May it become again the seat of learning and religion. May the rising generation see its rights restored. May the zeal of its holy priesthood increase. May the purity of its daughters preserve its stainless character. May the honour of its sons remain unsullied. May the evil of intemperance cease. May the spirit of infidelity and rationalism never reach its shores. May its attachment to the See of Peter, and its obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, never suffer diminution. May sanctity be its atmosphere and may it daily render greater glory and honour to thee, Most Sacred Heart, to which every Irish heart is, and will ever be, most devotedly attached. Amen.
(From St Anthony’s Treasury, 1916)
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