Celtic and Old English Saints 14 July =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Idus of Leinster * St. Deusdedit of Canterbury =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
St. Idus of Leinster, Bishop ------------------------------------ 5th century. Saint Idus was a disciple of Saint Patrick, by whom he was baptized. Patrick appointed him bishop of Alt-Fadha in Leinster. He is often invoked in the old Irish prayer in verse which bears the name of Saint Moling (Benedictines, Husenbeth). St. Deusdedit of Canterbury, Bishop (Adeodatus, also known as Frithona) ------------------------------------------------- Died October 28 (or July 14), 664; feast day formerly on January 14. Deusdedit was a South Saxon, who became the first Anglo-Saxon primate when he succeeded Saint Honorius as archbishop of Canterbury in 653. He helped to build the monastery of Medehamstede (Petersborough) in 657, and founded the convent on Thanet Island. He consecrated Damian bishop of Rochester. Nothing further is known of him except that he died during the great pestilence, on the same day as King Erconbert of Kent, and was buried in the monastery church of Saints Peter and Paul (later Saint Augustine's) in Canterbury. His shrine remained there until the destruction of the Reformation (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopaedia, Farmer). Sources: ======== Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine Abbey, Ramsgate. (1947). The Book of Saints. NY: Macmillan. Delaney, J. J. (1983). Pocket Dictionary of Saints, NY: Doubleday Image. Encyclopaedia of Catholic Saints. (1966). Philadelphia: Chilton Books. Farmer, D. H. (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Husenbeth, Rev. F. C., DD, VG (ed.). (1928). Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. London: Virtue & Co. For All the Saints: http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/ss-index.htm These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints *****************************************
