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ST CHAD, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 2 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH   Saints celebrated on the 2nd of March WELCOME! SAINT CHAD, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  [Also commemorated on October 26.] Saint Chad (Ceada) was brother to St Cedd, bishop of London, and the two holy priests Celin and Cymbel, and had his education in the monastery of Lindisfarne, under St Aidan.  For his greater improvement in sacred letters and divine contemplation he passed into Ireland, and spent a considerable time in the company of St Egbert, till he was called back by his brother St Cedd to assist him in settling the monastery of Lestingay, which he had founded in the mountains of the Deiri, that is, the Woulds of Yorkshire.  ST CEDD LEFT TO HIM THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OF HIS HOUSE St Cedd being made bishop of London, or of the East Saxons, left to him the entire government of this house. Oswi having yielded up Bernicia, or the northern part of his kingdom, to his son Alcfrid, this prince sent St Wilfrid into France, that he migh...