Bl. Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie
Feastday: October 14
Birth: 1747
Death: 1794
Beatified: Pope John Paul II
Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie was a priest in Angers, France and was martyred during the French Revolution.
Bl. Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie
Feastday: October 14
Birth: 1747
Death: 1794
Beatified: Pope John Paul II
Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie was a priest in Angers, France and was martyred during the French Revolution.
St. Bernard of Arce
Feastday: October 14
Death: 9th century
A recluse of Arpino in the Campania district of Italy. He was born in England or Ireland and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Rome. He then became a hermit, known for his sanctity. Bernard's relics are in Rocca d'Arce.
St. Manakus
Feastday: October 14
Welsh abbot of Holyhead, Wales, also called Manaccus. He was a co worker of St. Cybi. Manakus died in Cornwall, England.
St. Manechildis
Feastday: October 14
Hermitess and patroness of Sainte Menehould, France, also listed as Menehould. She was the youngest of seven sisters revered as saints in the Champagne district. She was born in Perthois, the daughter of Sigmarius, and received the veil from Bishop St. Alpinus. Manechildis lived for a time at Bienville.
St. Menehould
Feastday: October 14
Death: 5th century
Patron saint of the French town in the Argonne that bears her name. She had five sisters who were also venerated. Menehould was active in Chalons-sur-Marne.
St. Rusticus
Feastday: October 14
Death: 574
Bishop of Trier, Germany. He was forced to resign his see owing to the charge of sexual misconduct which was made against him by St. Goar. He retired to a hermitage which was under the direction of St. Goar, where he spent the rest of his life in deep recollection.
Sts. Saturninus & Lupus
Feastday: October 14
Death: unknown
Martyrs who were put to death at Caesarea, in Cappadocia (in modern Turkey).
Bl. Alexandrina Maria da Costa
Feastday: October 13
Birth: 1904
Death: 1955
Beatified: April 25, 2004 by Pope John Paul II
Holy Saturday of 1918, Alexandrina Maria da Costa, a fourteen-year-old native of Balasar, Portugal, was sewing when three men broke into her home, threatening to violate her chastity. Resolute to preserve her purity, she fled by jumping out a window. The thirteen-foot plunge to the ground crippled her for life. At the age of twenty-one, she became totally paralyzed and permanently bedridden. Alexandrina accepted this affliction as God's will for her and an opportunity to offer herself totally as a "victim soul" for the conversion of sinners. For a period of three and a half years, she received the mystical gift of experiencing each Friday the pains of Christ on the cross. For thirteen years, she was imbued with the mystical phenomenon of being nourished solely by the Eucharist. Out of zeal to convert sinners, Alexandrina requested for her tombstone these words: "Sinners, how much I want to tell you...Do not risk losing Jesus for all eternity, for he is so good. Enough with sin. Love Jesus, love him!" On October 13, 1955, before breathing her last, Alexandrina declared, "I am happy, because I am going to heaven."
St. Berthoald
Feastday: October 13
Death: 7th century
The fifth bishop of Cambrai Arras, France. His time as bishop came during a period of severe upheaval in France, and he labored to protect his people.
Berthoald (or Bertoald) (died 604) was the mayor of the palace of Burgundy from some time before 603 (when he is first mentioned as mayor under King Theuderic II) until his death in the next year. According to the Burgundian chronicler Fredegar, he was moderate, sensible, brave, and honest.
In 604, Theuderic, at the suggestion of his grandmother Brunhilda, sent Berthoald to inspect the royal villae along the Seine, in order to have him away from court so that he might be conveniently killed. Brunhilda intended to raise her paramour Protadius to Berthoald's honours. Berthoald and three hundred men were at Arèle when King Clotaire II of Neustria—alerted by some means to his presence— sent an army under his son Merovech and his mayor Landric to assault him. Berthoald fled to Orléans, and Landric followed and besieged him, which violated a peace treaty with Theuderic. The king of Burgundy went out at Christmas to Étampes and met the forces of Merovech and Landric. Defeating them with the aid of Berthoald, he took Paris. Berthoald was killed in battle, having charged the enemy too far, with no regard for his own life, which he knew was in danger at court because of the plottings on behalf of Protadius. Protadius was indeed made mayor of the palace after him.
St. Carpus
Feastday: October 13
Death: 1st century
Confessor mentioned by St. Paul in one of his letters. St. Paul stated that he had left his cloak with Carpus. Greek tradition makes him a bishop.
Carpus of Beroea of the Seventy Disciples is commemorated by the Church on May 26 with Alphaeus, and on January 4 with the Seventy.
In his second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:13), Paul requests, "The phelonion that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books." Carpus was bishop of Beroea (or Verria) in Macedonia.
St. Chelidonia
Feastday: October 13
Patron: of Subiaco, Italy
Death: 1152
Benedictine hermitess. She was born in Ciculum in the Abruzzi region of Italy, and became a recluse in the mountains near Subiaco, in a cave now called Marra Ferogna. Chelidonia received her habit from Cardinal Cuno of Frascati. Her remains are in the church of St. Scholastica in Subiaco, and she is patron of that city.
For the islands with this name in antiquity, see Chelidonia (islands).
Chelidonia was a Benedictine hermitess. She was born in Ciculum, Italy, and became a recluse in the mountains near Subiaco, choosing a home, as a hermitess, in a cave now called Marra Ferogna. Chelidonia later received her habit from Cardinal Cuno of Frascati.[1]
St. Comgan
Feastday: October 13
Death: 8th century
Abbot and founder. He was the son of a prince of Leinster, Ireland, and the brother of St. Kentigern. Wounded by neighboring chieftains in a battle, Comgan fled with his sister and her children to Scotland. He settled in Lochaise, near Skye. There he built a monastery. He was buried on Iona.
Clan MacEacharn (Scottish Gaelic: Sìol Eachairn) were a group of families who occupied lands in the Kintyre, Islay, and Morvern regions of Scotland as well as island areas such as Mull and Tiree. They are traditionally known as one of the oldest Western Highland family names. The history of the Kintyre branch and its sub branches are well known, however the histories of the Islay and Morvern branches and the island branches is obscure.
Origins of Clan MacEacharn
The MacEacharns are known as Sìol Eachairn.[1] "The Seed of the Horse Lord". They are a clan with other clans branching from them.[2] The clan has no septs, only branch families known under different clan names.[2] The traditional seat of the MacEacharns was Killelan Estate in Southern Kintyre. Killelan translates as "the church of St Fillan". Saint Fillan's mother was Saint Kentigerna.[3] Saint Kentigerna was a Leinster princess. Her father was King Cellach Cualann. Along with her brother Saint Comgan[4] and her son Fillan she traveled to Scotland in the late 7th century AD.
The early 20th century scholar Rev. A.M. Sinclair noted that the genealogy of the MacEacherns was given in the Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis as "Andrew, son of Colin, son of Macrath, son of Gilchrist, son of Macrath, son of Marceartach, son of Cormac, son of Seth, son of Ferchar, son of Finlay, son of Nichol, son of Maine, son of Murdoch, son of Ectigern, who was called In Gamor". Sinclair speculated that the "In Gamor" may stand for an gainnear, meaning "the archer"; though also noted that it could also stand for an ceannair, meaning "the driver". Sinclair stated that Macrath, son of Ectigern had three sons—Gilchrist, Dugall, and Ranald. Gilchrist succeeded his father in Kintyre and was succeeded by his own son, Macrath, who was in turn succeeded by his son, Colin. Colin was in turn succeeded by his son, Andrew, who was chief of the clan in 1385. Sinclair also stated that Colin of Kilellan, a descendant of Andrew, was chief in the year 1493.[5]
Sinclair disagreed with the claimed ancestry of the Clan Dugall Craignish and stated further that in the House of Argyll and the Collateral Branches of the Clan Campbell.[6] , we are told that the MacCouls of Craignish are descended from Dugall Campbell, third son of Sir Archibald Gillespic Campbell. This statement is groundless, and contrary to known historic facts. MacCoul is a shortened form of Mac Dhughaill or MacDougall. MacCoul of Craignish means simply MacDougall of Craignish. There were two clan Dougalls in Scotland, the Clan MacDougalls of Lorn, who were descended from Dugall, son of Somerled of the Isles, and the Clan Dugall Craignish, who were descended from Dugall, son of Macrath, son of Ectigern. MacCoul is simply a contracted form of MacDougall. Both names are the same in Gaelic, Mac Dhughaill.[5]
The clan is not registered with the Court of the Lord Lyon and as such is not officially recognised as a clan.