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stitchwhichRoderic and Solomon (d. 857) Roderic was an unfortunate victim of the interreligious tensions in Spain in the 850s. He was a priest at Cabra. One fine day, his two brothers (one a Muslim, one a lapsed Christian) beat him unconscious when he tried to get between them in an argument. The Muslim brother then paraded Roderic through the streets proclaiming that he wished to become a Muslim. Roderic escaped, but the same brother then denounced him to the authorities as an apostate from Islam. So he was imprisoned, loudly protesting that he had never given up Christianity. He met another man charged with apostasy, Solomon, in prison. After a long imprisonment, they were both beheaded. Their Muslim guards threw the pebbles stained with their blood into a nearby stream to keep people from taking them as relics.
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Mochoemoc (Pulcherius) (d. c. 656) Mochoemoc was born in c580, and from c597 was a monk at Bangor (Ireland) under Comgall. Later he founded the monastery of Liath-Mochoemoc, serving as abbot until his death. “Mochoemoc” is a name of serpentine nomenclature. "Mo" is an affectionate element, "my" attached to the names of some Irish saints. Thus Mochoemoc may be the same as St. Kennoch, venerated around Glasgow - who, by the way, was given a sex-change operation by a scribal error and is often called Kevoca. Kevoca is an alternative form of Mochoemoc. He founded a large number of monasteries and was a teacher of St Dagan and St Cuanghas.
His existence is miraculous enough, and would never have happened had it not been for his exceptionally holy aunt, Íte, who promised her sister Ness and her brother-in-law Béoán that they would bear a saintly son. Béoán was beheaded in battle before her prophecy was fulfilled, but Íte was never one to let a little thing like death stand in her way. She marched to the battlefield and recovered his body, but couldn't find his head amid all the carnage. So she prayed to God and of a sudden the head came flying through the air and landed solidly back in place, without any trace of his wounds remaining. Then Béoán and Ness celebrated his return to the living in grand fashion, with the result being Mochaomhóg, who became a saint, the founder and abbot of Liath, and one of Íte's most famous foster-children. Her best-known foster-son is Brénainn the Navigator.
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Leander of Seville (d. 600 or 601) An older brother of St. Isidore of Seville, Leander saw to Isidore's education and preceded him as archbishop of Seville in 578. The leading light of his time in the Visigothic church, he was a friend and correspondent of Gregory the Great, whom he had gotten to know c580 when they were both in Constantinople. While there, Leander appears to have collected books and connections that helped jump-start a little "Visigothic renaissance." He was the author of anti-Arian treatises which have not survived and was credited with the conversion to Catholicism both of king Leovigild's son, St. Hermenegild (whose wife and whose mother were both Catholic), and of Leovigild's successor, king Reccared I. His surviving writings are the closing sermon of the third council of Toledo (589) and a treatise, De institutione virginum et de contemptu mundi, dedicated to his sister, St. Florentina. He is honored in Spain as a doctor of the church.
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Mochoemoc (Pulcherius) (d. c. 656) Mochoemoc was born in c580, and from c597 was a monk at Bangor (Ireland) under Comgall. Later he founded the monastery of Liath-Mochoemoc, serving as abbot until his death. “Mochoemoc” is a name of serpentine nomenclature. "Mo" is an affectionate element, "my" attached to the names of some Irish saints. Thus Mochoemoc may be the same as St. Kennoch, venerated around Glasgow - who, by the way, was given a sex-change operation by a scribal error and is often called Kevoca. Kevoca is an alternative form of Mochoemoc. He founded a large number of monasteries and was a teacher of St Dagan and St Cuanghas.
His existence is miraculous enough, and would never have happened had it not been for his exceptionally holy aunt, Íte, who promised her sister Ness and her brother-in-law Béoán that they would bear a saintly son. Béoán was beheaded in battle before her prophecy was fulfilled, but Íte was never one to let a little thing like death stand in her way. She marched to the battlefield and recovered his body, but couldn't find his head amid all the carnage. So she prayed to God and of a sudden the head came flying through the air and landed solidly back in place, without any trace of his wounds remaining. Then Béoán and Ness celebrated his return to the living in grand fashion, with the result being Mochaomhóg, who became a saint, the founder and abbot of Liath, and one of Íte's most famous foster-children. Her best-known foster-son is Brénainn the Navigator.
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Leander of Seville (d. 600 or 601) An older brother of St. Isidore of Seville, Leander saw to Isidore's education and preceded him as archbishop of Seville in 578. The leading light of his time in the Visigothic church, he was a friend and correspondent of Gregory the Great, whom he had gotten to know c580 when they were both in Constantinople. While there, Leander appears to have collected books and connections that helped jump-start a little "Visigothic renaissance." He was the author of anti-Arian treatises which have not survived and was credited with the conversion to Catholicism both of king Leovigild's son, St. Hermenegild (whose wife and whose mother were both Catholic), and of Leovigild's successor, king Reccared I. His surviving writings are the closing sermon of the third council of Toledo (589) and a treatise, De institutione virginum et de contemptu mundi, dedicated to his sister, St. Florentina. He is honored in Spain as a doctor of the church.
