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ST KESSOG, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 10 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH   Saints celebrated on the 10th of March WELCOME! SAINT KESSOG, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  (Saint Mackessoge , or Kessoge , Confessor - Bishop in the provinces of Levin and Boin in Scotland.) By his instructions and counsels the pious King Congal II governed with extraordinary prudence, zeal, and sanctity.  HE WAS ILLUSTRIOUS FOR MIRACLES This saint was illustrious for miracles, and died in 560. A celebrated church in that country still bears the title of Saint Kessoge-Kirk . The Scots for their cry in battle for some time used his name, but afterwards changed it for that of St Andrew.  SOURCES They sometimes painted St Kessoge in a soldier’s habit, holding a bow bent with an arrow in it. See the Aberdeen Breviary , the Chronicle of Paisley , (a great monastery of regular canons in the shire of Renfrew,) Florarium , and Buchanan . Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable ...