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February 5 · Martyrs

Sts. Indract and…

Sts. Indract and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

February 5
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

February 5
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

Selected sentences from the original account, unaltered.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 141 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

He was of royal extraction, son of one of the kings of Ireland; but quitted all this world could give for the love of God.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.

Build up the community you belong to. This life was lived with and for a community.

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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The full original · 141 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Ancient English Martyrologies. Authority:—William of Malmesbury, and Capgrave.

Of old, on the 5th of February, were commemorated in the famous monastery of Glastonbury, S. Indract, S. Dominica, and nine companions, martyrs. He was of royal extraction, son of one of the kings of Ireland; but quitted all this world could give for the love of God. He left his country, with his sister Dominica or Drusa, and seven, or according to another account nine, companions, and settled at Skipwith near Glastonbury, in Somersetshire, where they lived a retired and eremitical life. At length, some wicked men, thinking to meet with great booty, murdered them at night; and to conceal their villainy, cast the bodies into a deep pit. But a column of light standing over the place warned the neighbours that some sacred bodies lay there, and the relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] were removed to Glastonbury, in the reign of king Ina.

Feast days

Feast: February 5

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St. Agatha

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St. Bertulf

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.