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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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August 24 · Bishop

St. Yarcard

St. Yarcard

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

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

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

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Early life

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

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

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 August 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Dempster in his Scottish Menology. The Aberdeen Breviary.] S. Yarcard, a native of Kincardine, was ordained by S. Ternan, and lived a solitary and ascetic life. He is said to have visited Rome, and received the benediction of Pope Gregory I. But as S. Ternan died in a.d. 431, and S. Gregory in a.d. 606, the Aberdeen Breviary which makes this statement is guilty of a grievous anachronism. There is no reason to doubt that he laboured along with S. Ternan among the Piets in the 5th cent.

Feast days

Feast: August 24

Nine days · Free

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

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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.