A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
March 10
March 10
Bishop
Confessor
Mackessoge, or Kessoge, was a bishop in the provinces of Levin and Boin in Scotland. Butler says the pious King Congal II governed wisely and holily on his advice.
He was famous for miracles and died in 560. A well-known church still bore the name Saint Kessoge-Kirk. The Scots once used his name as their battle cry before changing it for St Andrew's, and they sometimes painted him as a soldier holding a bent bow with an arrow.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 64 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Kessog or Makkessog, as he is otherwise called, an Irish prince by birth, and an itinerary bishop in the province of Boyne, laboured for the spread of the Gospel in Scotland.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 10 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Kessog or Makkessog, as he is otherwise called, an Irish prince by birth, and an itinerary bishop in the province of Boyne, laboured for the spread of the Gospel in Scotland. He is said to have settled in Lennox; and Thomas Dempster says he was represented in art dressed as a soldier with a bow in his hand and a quiver at his back.
Feast: March 10
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Kessog's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Luss, St Kessog's Church And Churchyard - 20140422130105.jpg · Enric · CC BY-SA 4.0, 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: Enric, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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.
