The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

contemporary life, and the notes of Goar and Combefis, two learned
Dominicans, on his works, printed at Paris, in 1655.
Footnotes:
1. George Syncellus, (i. e. secretary to the patriarch St. Tarasius,) a
holy monk, and zealous defender of holy images, was a close friend
of St. Theophanes, and died about the year 800. In his chronicle are
preserved excellent fragments of Manetho, the Egyptian, of Julius
Africanus, Eusebius, &c.
SAINT KENNOCHA, VIRGIN IN SCOTLAND,
IN THE REIGN OF KING MALCOLM II.
FROM her infancy she was a model of humility, meekness, modesty, and
devotion. Though an only daughter, and the heiress of a rich and noble
family, fearing lest the poison which lurks in the enjoyment of
perishable goods should secretly steal into her affections, or the noise
of the world should be a hinderance to her attention to heavenly things
and spiritual exercises, she rejected all solicitations of suitors and
worldly friends, and, in the bloom of life, made an entire sacrifice of
herself to God, by making her religious profession in a great nunnery,
in the county of Fife. In this holy state, by an extraordinary love of
poverty and mortification, a wonderful gift of prayer, and purity or
singleness 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.
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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.