Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.
April 28
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 71 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Anglican Martyrology, Ferrarius, and the Bollandists. Authority: — Mention in the life of S. Winifred, by Rupert, Ab. of Shrewsbury, circ. 1140. Alford in the Annales Anglise, says that S. Senan was greatly venerated in Devon and Cornwall, and that Port Senan is called after him.] SENAN was a hermit in the North of with S. Chebbi, or Cubbi, in the place where afterwards the body of S. Winifred was laid.
Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.
Anglican Martyrology, Ferrarius, and the Bollandists [Jesuit scholars who since the 1600s have critically studied the lives of the saints]. Authority: — Mention in the life of S. Winifred, by Rupert, Ab. of Shrewsbury, circ. 1140. Alford in the Annales Anglise, says that S. Senan was greatly venerated in Devon and Cornwall, and that Port Senan is called after him.] SENAN was a hermit in the North of with S. Chebbi, or Cubbi, in the place where afterwards the body of S. Winifred was laid.
Feast: April 28
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Senan'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, 1897–98); 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.
