ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 26th of May WELCOME! SAINT ODUVALD, ABBOT AND CONFESSOR Saint Oduvald [ Odunaldus ] was a Scottish nobleman, and governor of the province of Laudon, who, renouncing the world, entered the abbey of Melrose. His joy upon this occasion he expressed by singing those verses of the Psalmist: In the departing of Israel out of Egypt, etc. and, The snare is broken, and we are delivered, etc. During the whole course of his monastic life he was remarkable for his continual advancement in spiritual fervour, and his gift of tears and constant prayer. His sighs after heaven were crowned with a joyful and happy death in 698, ten years after St Cuthbert. See Chronica Sconensia, et Elphiston. Paslatensis Liber, et Sigebert in Chronico. From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 🎨 Joseph Mallord William Turner, Melrose Abbey, 1822 PRAYER: May the intercession of the blessed Oduvald commend us to you, so that through his merits we may o...