A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
March 13
March 13 (also listed: March 25)
Virgin
Kennocha lived in Scotland in the reign of King Malcolm II. Though she was an only daughter and heiress of a rich, noble family, she turned away all suitors and, while still young, made her religious profession in a great nunnery in Fife.
There she grew in poverty, mortification and prayer, worked several miracles and died in a good old age in 1007. Several Scottish churches bore her name, among them St Kennoch's Kirk near Glasgow and Kyle, where her relics were kept.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 68 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
On March 13th, the Ancient Scottish Church commemorated S. Kennocha, a virgin, who, desirous of consecrating herself wholly to Jesus Christ, met with long and vehement opposition from her parents and friends, and underwent from them great hardships and persecution, without shaking her constancy.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
On March 13th, the Ancient Scottish Church commemorated S. Kennocha, a virgin, who, desirous of consecrating herself wholly to Jesus Christ, met with long and vehement opposition from her parents and friends, and underwent from them great hardships and persecution, without shaking her constancy. She led a life as a solitary of great severity, and attained a good old age. She was buried in the church of Kyle.
Feast: March 13
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Kennocha's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Saints Medana, Andrew, and Kennocha by Karl Parsons 1910.jpg · Karl Parsons · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Karl Parsons, Wikimedia Commons (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.
