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November 9 · Abbot

St. Englat

St. Englat

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Traditional feast

November 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Abbot

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Adam King's Scottish Kalendar, Aberdeen Breviary, Dempster's Menology.] No details of the life of this saint are known. The Aberdeen Breviary styles him an abbot, but Adam King calls him bishop, and says he lived in the reign of Kenneth III. (970-994). Dempster calls him a bishop, and adds, “who saw a Pictish herring and wept before the war,” an allusion to some legend now lost. The collect in the Aberdeen Breviary prays that by his intercession we may be saved from the concupiscence of the world, and neither be corrupted by its blandishments nor crushed by its powers. The place where he lived was Tarves, where his local name is Tanglan. His well is shown in the village, and his ford on the Ythan. Bishop Forbes, in his “ Kalendar of Scottish Saints,” gives 966 as the date of his death.

Feast days

Feast: November 9

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Englat's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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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, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). 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.