SAINTS: RE: St. Aidan

        
    
From: "Brenda Fernandes" <brenda.fernandes@mentorix.com>
Reply-To: <brenda.fernandes@mentorix.com>
To: <alfredtavares@hotmail.com>
Subject: St. Aidan
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:07:40 +0530

Hello Alfred,

Greetings from Mumbai.

When you make the time..
From your reference material, would you give me some story on St. Aidan; his
feast day etc.

Thanks so much and have a blessed day !!
Brenda

My dear Brenda: I have found three Saints Aidan for you, paddies all of them. If neither of them is the Aidan you are rooting for please let me know and I will delve further.

I am copying your request to all my lists with a purpose: If any of you have a querry about any saint or
angel please apply and I will do my best, which, considering the holy volume at my beck and call, is pretty considerable, you know?

Also available for the asking: information on patron saints, whose intercession to seek for what, et al sanctibus....

Yours holilly,
Alfred de Tavares,
Stockholm, 2005-02-15


St. Aidan, monastic founder, bishop, and miracle worker known for his kindness to animals. Died 626. Known as Edan, Modoc, and Maedoc in some records, Aidan was born in Connaught, Ireland. Tradition states that his birth was heralded by signs and omens, and he showed evidence of piety as a small child. Educated at Leinster, Aidan went to St. David?s monastery in Wales. He remained there for several years, studying Scriptures, and his presence saved St. David from disaster. Saxon war parties attacked the monastery during Aidan's stay, and he supposedly repelled them miraculously. In time, Aidan returned to Ireland, founding a monastery in Ferns, in Wexford. He became the bishop of the region as well. His miracles brought many to the Church. Aidan is represented in religious art with a stag. He is reported to have made a beautiful stag invisible to save it from hounds. Feastday: January 31.
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St. Aidan of Ferns, bishop and missionary, born in Inisbrefny, in County Cavan, circa 550; died 632. He is often confused with the Aidan above, since they share the feastday, January 31; however they are quite different Aidans. As a small boy he was held as a hostage by AedhAinmire, High King of Ireland, probably to insure the loyalty of his family. Released, Aidan studied at Kilmuine, in Wales, the sdame famed institute of Christian learning conducted by St. David. In 580, he returned to Ireland, going to the coast of Wexford. He served the area and was honored by Bran Dubh at the synod held to celebrate victory over King Aedh. Ferns, the area in which Aidan conducted his priestly ministry, was elevated at this time to the status of a diocese. Aidan was appointed the first bishop of Ferns and became Ard-Escops or Chief bishop of the region. In time he was called Mogue, "the beloved Aidan." The episcopal seat is no longer in Ferns but in Enniscarthy, where a cathedral was dedicated to Aidan.
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St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, monk, bishop. Born in Ireland, he may have studied under St. Senan before becoming a monk at Iona. At the request of King Oswald of Northumbria, Aidan went to Lindisfarne as bishop and was known throughout the kingdom for his knowledge of the Bible, his learning, his eloquent preaching, his holiness, his distaste for pomp, his kindness to the poor, and the miracles attributed to him. He founded a monastery at Lindisfarne that became known as the English Iona and was a center of learning and missionary activity for all of northern England. He died in 651 at the royal castle at Bamburgh. Feastday: August 31

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