ngleness of heart, she attained to the perfection of all virtues.
Several miracles which she wrought made her name famous among men, and
she passed to God in a good old age, in the year 1007. Several churches
in Scotland bore her name, particularly one near Glasgow, still called
St. Kennoch's Kirk, and another called by an abbreviation of her name
Kyle, in which her relics were formerly kept with singular veneration.
In the Aberdeen Breviary she is honored with a particular prayer. She is
mentioned by Adam King, in his calendar, and an account of her life is
given us in the Chronicle of Scone.

ST. GERALD, BISHOP.

HE was an Englishman, who, passing into Ireland, became a monk in the
abbey of Megeo, or Mayo, founded by Colman of Lindisfarne, for the
English. Gerald was advanced successively to the dignity of abbot and
bishop, and founded the abbey of Elytheria, or Tempul-Gerald in
Connaught, that of Teagh-na-Saxon, and a nunnery which he put under the
care of his sister Segretia. He departed to our Lord in 732, and was
buried at Mayo, where a church dedicated to God under his patronage
remains to this day. See Colgan.

ST. MOCHOEMOC, IN LATIN, PULCHERIUS, ABBOT.

HAVING been educated under St. Comgal, in the monastery of Benchor, he
laid the foundation of the great monastery of Liath-Mochoemoc, around
which a large town was raised, which still bears that name. His happy
death is placed by the chronologists on the 13th of March, in 635. See
Usher's Antiquities in Tab. Chron. and Colgan.

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MARCH XIV.

ST. MAUD, OR MATHILDIS, QUEEN OF GERMANY.

From her life written forty years after her death, by the order of St.
Henry; Acta Sanct. t. 7, p. 361.

A.D. 968.

THIS princess was daughter of Theodoric, a powerful Saxon count. Her
parents, being sensible that piety is the only true greatness, placed
her very young in the monastery of Erford, of which her grandmother
Maud, who had renounced the world in her widowhood, was then abbess.
Here our saint acquired an extraordinary relish for prayer and spiritual
reading; and learned to work at her needle, and to employ all the
precious moments of life in something serious and worthy the great end
of her creation. She remained in that house an accomplished model of all
virtues, till her parents married her to Henry, son of Otho, duke of
Saxony, in 913. Her husband, surnamed the Fowler, from his fondness for
the diversion of hawking, then much in vogue, became duke