Mar.03, ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS: St. Chad, 673 A.D., St. Cynibild, 7th century, St. Fergna, 637 A.D, St. Gilstlianm 5th or 6th century

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS: St. Chad, 673 A.D. Irish archbishop and brother of St. Cedd, also called Ceadda. He was trained by St. Aidan in Lindisfarne and in England. He also spent time with St. Egbert in Ireland. Made the archbishop of York by King Oswy, Chad was disciplined by Theodore, the newly arrived archbishop of Canterbury, in 669. Chad accepted Theodore’s charges of impropriety with such humility and grace that Theodore regularized his consecration and appointed him the bishop of Mercia. He established a see at Lichfield. His relics are en-shrined in Birmingham. In liturgical art he is depicted as a bishop, holding a church. St. Cynibild, 7th century. Evangelist to the Anglo-Saxons and the brother of Sts. Chad and Cedd. St. Fergna, 637 A.D. An abbot of lona, Scotland the successor of St. Columba and a relative of the saint. He is called “the White.” St. Gilstlianm 5th or 6th century. The uncle of St. David of Wales and a monk at Menevia Abbey called St. David’s. Mar 2