St. Malachy, Bishop and Confessor.

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 3

St. Malachy, Bishop and Confessor.

This saint was born in the North of Ireland, in Armagh, of which city he afterwards became Archbishop. Deputed by his colleagues in the episcopate to proceed to Rome on ecclesiastical business, St. Malachy made the acquaintance of the great St. Bernard, who thus writes of him : ' He seemed to live wholly to himself, yet so devoted to the service of his neighbors as if he lived wholly for them. If you saw him amidst the cares and functions of his pastoral charge, you would say he was born for others, not for himself. Yet if you considered him in his retirement, or observed his constant recollection, you would think that he lived only to God and himself.' St. Malachy died at St. Bernard's monastery of Clairvaux, at the age of 54, A.D. 1 1 48. St. Comgall, Abbot. St. Comgall was born in the North of Ireland, A.D. 516. He established the great monastery of Benchor, or Bangor, in the County of Down. This was the largest and most celebrated ol all the Irish monasteries, and under St Comgall's rule became a nursery of saints and scholars.