St. Kevin was birthed without labor pains to a
noble Leinster familiy, as a sign that he was the fulfillment of the prophecy
of St. Patrick of the one to come who would evangelize the region of
Ireland just south of
Dublin...
Saint Maglorious was an abbot of Irish origin. He was educated at Llantwit Major by Illtud. With Samson he went to Brittany and founded monasteries under the protection of King Childebert. Maglorius became abbot of one of them near Dol. After some years he retired to Sark, where he founded a monastery and died. A connection with Jersey is also claimed by his late Life: his removal of a tiresome dragon was rewarded by gifts of land. He died in 575.
Milburga
was abbess of Wenlock Abbey in Salop,
Shropshire,
England
(between 722-730). She received the veil from St. Theodore of
Canterbury.
She
was the daughter of a king of
Mercia
and sister of Sts. Mildred of Thanet and Mildgytha. Her father and her uncle,
King Wulfhere, provided funds for the abbey. Among the remarkable abilities she
evidenced were levitation and power over birds.
Bishop
and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432. The first Apostle of
Christianity in
Scotland.
Also known as Ninias, Ninus, Dinan, Ringan, Ringen...
King of Northumbria and Martyr. Born,
probably, 605; died 5 Aug., 642.
The
second of seven brothers, sons
of Ethelfrid, who was grandson of Ida, founder of the
Kingdom of
Northumbria
in 547. Oswald's
mother was Acha, daughter of Ella or Alla, who, after
Ida's death, had seized Deira and thus separated it from the
Northern
Bernicia...
Died at Gilling,
Yorkshire,
England,
on August 20, 651.
When
his father, King Osric of Deira (roughly the county of Yorkshire), was killed
by the pagan Welsh King Cadwallon in 633, he was taken to Wessex for safety,
baptized, and educated there by Saint Aidan...
Saints of the British Isles 
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