Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?10_August_=E2=80=93_St_Blane=2C_Bishop_and_Confessor?= To : All From : rich Date : Mon Aug 09 2021 10:19:36 From: rich 10 August =E2=80=93 St Blane, Bishop and Confessor (Died 590) born on the Isle of Bute, date unknown. Late medieval Scottish texts relate that his mother was Irish and that St Cathan was his brother. It was Cathan who saw to Blane's educati= on in Ireland under Saints Comgall and Kenneth. Blane became a monk, went to Scotland and was eventually bishop among the Picts. Several miracles are related to him, among them the restoration of a dead boy to life. The Aberdeen Breviary gives these and other details of the saint's life. There can be no doubt that devotion to St Blane was, from early times, popular in Scotland. There was a church of St Blane in Dumfries and another at Kilblane. In Greenock, the place name Kilblain is thought to refer to a cell or chapel of St Blane. There is a well in the strath, or valley, called Blane's Well and a= lso a place in the neighbourhood called Garcattoun, which might be named after his brother, St Cathan. His name is recorded on the Scottish landscape at Strathblane in the central lowlands from Loch Lomond to Dunblane. The highest authorities say the saint died 590. The ruins of his church at Kingarth, Bute, where his remains were buried, are still standing and form an object of great interest to antiquarians, St Blane's Chapel is picturesquely situated about 800 metres from Dunagoil Bay. The bell of his monastery is believed to be preserved at Dunblane. Dunblane Cathedral was founded on the site first used by St Blane. https://anastpaul.com/2019/08/10/ Saint Quote: Be assured that he who shall always walk faithfully in God's presence, always ready to give Him an account of all his actions, shall never be separated from Him by consenting to sin. --St. Thomas Aquinas Saint Quote: And we ourselves experience this, that when we enter ornate and clean Basilicas, adorned with crosses, sacred images, altars, and burning lamps, we most easily conceive devotion.=C2 But, on the other hand, when we enter the temples of the heretics, where there is nothing except a chair for preaching and a wooden table for making a meal, we feel ourselves to be entering a profane hall and not the house of God. --St. Robert Bellarmine <><><><> The extraordinary paths in which the Holy Ghost is pleased sometimes to conduct certain privileged souls are rather to be admired than imitated. If it cost them so much to seek humiliations, how diligently ought we to make a good use of those at least which providence sends us! It is only by humbling ourselves on all occasions that we can walk in the path of true humility, and root out of our hearts all secret pride. The poison of this vice infects all states and conditions: it often lurks undiscovered in the foldings of the heart even after a man has got the mastery over all his other passions. Pride always remains even for the most perfect principally to fight against; and unless we watch continually against it, nothing will remain sound or untainted in our lives; this vice will creep even into our best actions, infect the whole circle of our lives, and become a mainspring of all the motions of our heart; and what is the height of our misfortune, the deeper its wounds are, the more is the soul stupified by its venom, and the less capable is she of feeling her most grievous disease and spiritual death. St. John Climacus writes, [Gr. 22, p. 548.] that when a young novice was rebuked for his pride, he said: =E2=80=9CPardon me, fath= er, I am not proud.=E2=80=9D To whom the experienced director replied: =E2=80= =9CAnd how could you give me a surer proof of your pride than by not seeing it yourself?=E2=80=9D --Excerpt from sermon (secret pride) --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .