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About Today’s Commemoration:

Today is a feria on the Episcopal Church calendar. On the calendars of two other Anglican provinces, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church in Wales, we find commemoration of two Celtic bishops, respectively, St. Serf and St. Euddogwy. Exciting Holiness tells us about St. Serf (whose Latinized name was “Servanus”):

Serf is one of the heroes of the Celtic Church known to us only through fragments of his story which are not always consistent. Tradition locates his activity at Culross and in the foothills of the Ochils, where he evangelized the Pictish tribe occupying the land to the north of the Forth. Also associated with him is the village of Dysart, a name derived from his retreat or “desertum”. He is thought to have been a disciple of Palladius and to have fostered and educated Kentigern [who is also known as St. Mungo in Ireland], which would place his activity in the first half of the sixth century.

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About St. Euddogwy, Exciting Holiness tells us:

Euddogwy is the third saint to whom Llandaff Cathedral is dedicated, but little is known of him. It would seem that he was a nephew of Teilo, and a monk of Llantwit Major. On the death of Teilo, Euddogwy was elected Bishop of Llandaff by the abbots of the South Wales monasteries, and consecrated in 569.

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(A longer biography of Euddogwy may be found at David Nash Ford’s Early British Kingdoms site here.)

A prayer for today:

A prayer for commemorating Sts. Serf and Euddogwy is adapted from Exciting Holiness – 2007:

Almighty and ever-living God, who called Euddogwy and Serf to be bishops in your Church and to proclaim the gospel: give us, your servants, such faith and power of love, that, as we rejoice in their triumph, we may profit by their examples; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory, one God, now and for ever. Amen.