SAINT MOCHELLUS - 26 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 26th of March

SAINT MOCHELLUS

⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints

Saint Mochellus (Mochellocus) was an Irish saint of whom nothing certain is known. He is also spelled Mottelogus, Motallegus, Metalochus, and Mohalon. Our Saint could perhaps be the same person as St Mochellocus.

According to the Bollandists*, his place of residence was on the Ken Mare Bay, while older sources say he lived and worked in "Mormonia", i.e. anywhere in the south-west of the country. 

He may also have been known as Kellenus and have spent a large part of his life as a hermit. Kill-Mallok (Killocia) could have been the place where he was buried. According to others he was the founder of the spiritual settlement in County Limerick (Kelly, p. 87). It is improbable that he lived in the forest of Lethan, not far from Lismore, as some writers presume.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 466)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Mochellus 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)