Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
February 8
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Martyr
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 62 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Mengold, second patron of the town of Huy on the Meuse, where a church is erected under his invocation, was count of Huy, and was murdered by some knights of his court, whose vices he attempted to restrain. His relics, along with those of several other saints of Huy, are preserved in the noble church of Our Lady in that town.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on February 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Mengold, second patron of the town of Huy on the Meuse, where a church is erected under his invocation, was count of Huy, and was murdered by some knights of his court, whose vices he attempted to restrain.
His relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor], along with those of several other saints of Huy, are preserved in the noble church of Our Lady in that town.
Feast: February 8
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Mengold's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
