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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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October 24 · Bishop

St. Marnock

St. Marnock

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

October 24
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

October 25
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

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Early life

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

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Scottish Kalendars. Aberdeen Breviary.] This saint was a disciple of S. Brendan, and is mentioned in all the lives of him. He died at Kilmarnock in Cuningham, where he had a cell. The Aberdeen Breviary gives a collect for him, but no account of his life S. GOEZNOU, B.

Feast days

Feast: October 25
Traditional: October 24

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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St. Cadfarch

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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.