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ST MOLOC, BISHOP - 25 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 25th of June WELCOME!   SAINT MOLOC, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR St Moloc was a Scotsman, and a zealous assistant of St Boniface of Ross in his apostolic labours, in the seventh century. The relics of St Moloc were kept with great veneration at Murlach.  ST MOLOC'S INTERCESSION When Sweno, the Danish king, sent out of England a barbarous army under the conduct of Olaf and Enet, king Malcolm II after having been at first discomfited by them, overcame them in a second battle near Murlach, which victory he ascribed to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and St Moloc, which with his whole army he had earnestly implored.  THE ABBEY In thanksgiving he founded at Murlach, in 1010, an abbey under their joint invocation, together with a stately cathedral church which he adorned with an episcopal see, though this was afterwards translated to Aberdeen.  A SECOND AND THIRD MONASTERY The Danes in two other engagements were...