Interim Saints - March 6th
SEZIN, Archbishop in Brittany (6th century)
Of this abbot nothing certain is known.
FRIDOLIN, Archbishop of Sickingen (end of 7th century)
Fridolin the Traveller was a native of Ireland . . . S. Fridolin is
regarded as the tutelar patron of the Canton of Glarus, which bears on
its coat of arms a figure of the saint.
KYNEBURGA, abbess, KYNESWITHA and TIBBA, virgins (end of 7th century)
An obstinate tradition found in the ancient English Chronicles asserts
that two daughters of the savage old heathen Penda, king of Mercia,
Kyneburga and Kyneswitha, both gave up the thought of marriage to
consecrae themselves to God . . . After their death, they were buried
at Peterborough. When the Danes wasted England, their bodies were
carried to thorney, but were brought back again in the days of king
Henry I. Camden, in his account of Rutland, informs us that S. Tibba
was held in particular veneration at Ryall on the Wash.
BALTHER AND BILFRED (about A.D. 756)
S. Balther is supposed to be identical with S. Baldred, commemorated
the same day in the Scottish Martyrologies . . . S. Bilfred was a
goldsmith, who is said to have chased a book of the Gospels [B-G means,
of course, the Lindisfarne Gospels] with gems in gold, which was long
preserved at Durham, and is now in the Cottonian library in the British
Museum.
CHRODEGANG, Bishop of Metz (A.D. 766)
This saint was a native of Hasbain, that portion of Brabant which
surrounds Louvain . . .
[He] died on March 6th, 766. He was buried at Gorze. His relics
disappeared at the Revolution.
COLETTE, virgin (A.D. 1447)
Colette Boillet, a carpenter's daughter, was born at Corbie, in
Picardy, on Jan 13th, 1380. Her parents gave her at the font the name
of Nicoletta, and this has been contracted into Colette . . . When the
Emperor Joseph II suppressed many religious houses in his dominions, in
1785, the Poor Clares of Ghent took up the body of S. Colette, and
traversing France, laid it beneath the mountain shadows at Poligny.
The holy relics were secreted at the time of the French Revolution, and
on the return of tranquillity, they were placed in the parish church;
but the Poor Clares having re-established themselves at Poligny, the
bones of the saint were restored to them.
Oriens.
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