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November 10th - St. Aedh MacBricc, Miracle worker
d. 589
=EF=BB=BFTHE birth of this St Aedh, a son of Brecc of the Hy Neill, was mar= ked
by marvels and the prediction of a stranger that he would be great in
the eyes of God and man . . .He received no schooling in his youth,
being intended for the lay state, but worked on his father's land,
..where one day St Brendan of Birr and St Canice helped him to find the
pigs that had strayed. After the death of Brecc, Aedh's brothers
withheld his patrimony from him, and he tried to coerce them into
yielding his share by carrying off a girl from their household. Coming
to Rathlihen in Offaly he was persuaded by St Illathan, bishop in that
place, to renounce his claim and to send the girl back again. This
Aedh accordingly did, and remained with the bishop till, in
consequence of a sign of God's favour given while his disciple was
ploughing, Illathan sent him to establish a monastery in his own
district. His chief settlement is said to have been at Cill-air in
Westmeath, but he was active over a wide area.
Many miracles are recorded of St Aedh, some of them extravagant
enough: healing, transportation through the air (with or without his
car), turning water into wine, and resuscitating three people who had
had their throats cut by robbers are among them. It is said that St
Brigid herself (alternatively, " a certain man ") came to him to be
cured of a chronic headache, which he took upon himself. There is a
story told of St Ado of Cluny which is paralleled by the following
told of St Aedh: that he one day saw a girl washing her head after
Saturday Vespers (i.e. when, ecclesiastically, Sunday had begun), and
that at his word all her hair fell out until she had repented of doing
servile work on the Lord's day. When he came to die, St Aedh said to
one of his monks, " Prepare to take the road to Heaven with me ". The
man was not willing to die, but a country fellow standing by
exclaimed, " Would to God you would ask me to come with you ". " Very
well," said St Aedh, " go and wash yourself and get ready." So the
peasant did, and lay down on the saint's bed, and together they died.
At the same moment, St Columba in far Iona knew of Aedh's departure to
Heaven, and told the news to his brethren.
=EF=BB=BFThere are three Latin lives of this saint, but no text is known to have been preserved in Irish. The Latin recensions have all been
printed in full by Fr P. Grosjean in the Acta =EF=BB=BFSanctorum, November, vol. iv, the second being here edited for the first time, though C.
Plummer had quoted fragments of it when he published the third life in
his VSH., vol, i, pp. 34=C2=B745=C2=B7 In any case the second differs littl=
e
from the first, which is preserved to us in the Codex Salmanticensis
and had been previously printed in 1888. Fr Grosjean has greatly added
to the value of his article by copious annotations. See also Plummer's
preface to VSH., vol. i, pp. xxvi-xxviii, and G. Stokes in Journal of
R. Soc. of Antiq., Ireland, vol. xxvi (1896), pp. 325-335. St Aedh
seems to have been popularly invoked to cure headaches; cf, J. F.
Kenney, Sources, vol. i, p. 393.
Saint Quote:
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and
does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the
Lord.
--Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Bible Quote
And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple; and he
healed them. 15 And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the
wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple,
and saying: Hosanna to the son of David; were moved with indignation.
(Matthew 21:14-15)
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Bring Us Home
=C2 Bring us home, Father, after the contest of this life. Bring back the=
lost
sheep and summon those who have struggled even haltingly along the way
Open before us the great vista of the Heavenly City
so that at the end of our journey we may look up and
see its light reflected in the sky ahead.
from Quiet Moments with Benedict Groeschel:
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