15
November. Day of Remembrance:
1662 Book of Common Prayer: Machutus
Machutus, Bishop
("St. Malo"), a Welsh saint, hermit in an island near Brittany (then
Pagan), afterwards Bishop of Aleth in Britanny (541-564). The see of Aleth was
transferred to St. Malo, named after him. -- November 15th.
Grattan-Flood,
William. "St. Machutus." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09503a.htm. Accessed 28 May 2014.
St. Machutus
(Maclovius;
Malo). Born about the year 520 probably in Wales and baptized by St. Brendan. Machutus became his favourite
disciple and was one of those specially selected by that holy man for his
oft-described voyage. No doubt he may have remained
some years in Llancarrven Abbey, when St. Brendan stayed there, and it
was from there that St. Brendan and his disciple, St.
Machutus, with numerous companions set forth for the discovery of the
"Island of the Blest". He then put to sea on a second voyage and
visited the Island of September, in the seaward front of St. Malo, known as
Cizembra, where he tarried for some time. It was on the occasion of his second
voyage that he evangelized the Orkney Islands and the northern isles of Scotland. At Aleth opposite St.
Malo he placed himself under a venerable hermit named Aaron, on whose
death in 543 (or 544), St. Machutus succeeded to the spiritual rule of the
district subsequently known as St. Malo, and was consecrated first Bishop of Aleth. It is
remarkable that St. Brendan also laboured at
Aleth, and had a hermit's cell there on a
precipitous rock in the sea, whither he often retired. In old age the disorder
of the island compelled St. Machutus to leave, but the people soon begged the saint to come back. On his
return matters were put right, and the saint, feeling that his end
was at hand, determined to spend his last days in solitary penance. Accordingly
he proceeded to Archambiac, a village in the Diocese of Santes, where he passed
the remainder of his life in prayer and mortification. His obit is
chronicled on 15 November, in the year 618, 620 or 622.
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