Subj : September 27th - St. Marcellus of Saint-Gall
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From : rich
Date : Tue Sep 26 2017 10:09:03

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

September 27th - St. Marcellus of Saint-Gall
(also known as Moengal)

Died c. 869-887. Although Saint Marcellus was born either in Scotland
or Ireland, he was a monk of Saint-Gall in Switzerland. It seems that
he and his uncle, the learned Bishop Marcus, were among a group of
pilgrims who stopped at Saint-Gall on their return to the islands.
Instead of continuing on, they placed themselves under the direction
of Abbot Grimwoald. Marcellus sent his horses and pack mules home, but
kept the gold, vestments, and books for the abbey. The 8th-century
"Book of Gospels" (manuscript 51), now housed in the Saint-Gall
Cathedral Library, may have been one of the books the bishop donated
to the monastery.

The young, brilliant Saint Marcellus was given charge of the cloister
schools. He is known for having tutored Blessed Notker Balbulus (f.d.
April 6), who originated liturgical sequences, as well as other
celebrated figures. During this period, Saint-Gall's scribes supplied
all of Germany with manuscript books of Gregorian chant, often
illuminated.

The Irish with some merit claim him as the instigator of the cultural
eminence of Saint Gall. The 11th-century German historian Ekkehard
wrote: "It is delightful to recall how Saint-Gall began to increase
and flourish under the auspices of Moengal and his colleagues." In the
19th century, H. Zimmer wrote: "In my opinion, there were very few men
who in the middle of the 9th century exerted such a beneficent
influence upon the German mind in the cultivation of the higher arts
and sciences as Moengal and his followers." The abbey necrology calls
Marcellus "the most learned and excellent man" (Benedictines, D'Arcy,
Fitzpatrick 2, Gougaud, Henry, Montague, Tommasini).

Lives kindly supplied by: Celtic Orthodox Christianity Home Page
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/celtic.htm


Saint Quote:
We should go to prayer with deep humility and an awareness of our
nothingness. We must invoke the help of the Holy Spirit and that of
our good angel, and then remain still in God's presence, full of faith
that He is more in us than we are in ourselves.
-- Saint Jeanne de Chantal

Bible Quote
"Listen to my words!  If there is a prophet among you, I reveal myself
to him in a vision.  I speak to him in a dream.  Not so with my
servant Moses; to him my whole household is entrusted; to him I speak
face to face, plainly and not in riddles, and he sees Yahweh's form.
How, then, could you dare to criticize my servant Moses?"  [Numbers
12:6-8]


Act of Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary of St. Aloysius:

Most holy Mary, my Lady, to thy faithful care and particular protection and
to the bosom of thy mercy, today and every day, and particularly at the
hour of my death, I commend my soul and my body.  All my hope and
consolation, all my trials and miseries, my life and the end of my life, I
commit to thee, that through thy most holy intercession and by thy merits
all my actions may be directed and ordered according to thy will, and that
of thy Divine Son.  Amen.
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