From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   June 21st - St. Meen of Brittany, Abbot   
    (also known as Maine, Mevenus, Mewan. Melanus)   
      
   Born in Gwent, South Wales; died at Gael, Brittany, c. 617. Traditionally   
   the Cornish Saint Meen is said to have been born to a rich and noble family.   
   He mother was related to Saints Magloire (f.d. October 24) and Samson (f.d.   
   July 28). Accompanied by his reputed godson Saint Austell (f.d. June 28), he   
   followed Saint Samson from Wales to Brittany. Samson used him to preach to   
   the people on their way. As they passed through Cornwall they founded   
   adjoining parishes called Saint Mewan and Saint Austell.   
      
   In Brittany Meen evangelized the Broceliande district which figures in the   
   Arthurian romances. He acquitted himself so well as a preacher that he was   
   given land and goods by Count Caduon and Count Guerech I of Vannes to found   
   a monastery. With their assistance he founded one monastery near Rennes,   
   Saint John the Baptist of Gael, now called Saint-Meen's. With Meen as abbot,   
   the monastery gained renown for its sanctity and regularity. When King Saint   
   Judicaeel (f.d. December 17) renounced his throne c. 616, he received the   
   monastic habit from Saint Meen.   
      
   Then he founded another monastery near Angers, which was later called   
   Saint-Meen or Saint-Meon, which he populated with monks from Gael.   
      
   The cultus of Saint Meen spread throughout France and there were numerous   
   pilgrimages to his shrine at the monastery. At Gael there was a fountain   
   whose water was renowned for healing skin diseases. The abbey was converted   
   into a Lazarist seminary in 1640.   
      
   His extant _vita_, in which he is called Conard-Meen, was written there 500   
   years after his death. In England he is the patron of Saint Mewan and   
   perhaps Mevagissey in Cornwall. Some of his relics are claimed by   
   Glastonbury; others were translated to Saint-Florent's abbey near Saumur.   
   His name is found in a 7th-century English litany and in pre-Conquest   
   missals. His feast is kept in Cornwall and Exeter (Attwater, Attwater2,   
   Benedictines, Coulson, Encyclopedia, Farmer, Husenbeth).   
      
      
   Troparion of St Mewan tone 7   
      
   Holy disciple of Saint Samson of Dol,   
   / thou didst persevere in thy resolve and enter a monastery in Brittany.   
   / Thou didst press on in thy holy struggle   
   / and establish thine own monastery.   
   / O holy Mewan, pray for us to Christ our God   
   / that our souls may be saved.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   An innumerable company of angels, and the spirits of the just;   
   -we dwell under their shadow; we are baptized into their fellowship;   
    we are allotted their guardianship;   
   we are remembered, as we trust, in their prayers.   
   We dwell in the very presence and court of God himself,   
   and of his eternal Son our Savior, who died for us, and rose again,   
    and now intercedes for us before the throne.   
   We have privileges surely far greater than Elisha's;   
   But of the same kind. Angels are among us,   
   and are powerful to do anything.   
   And they do wonders for the believing,   
   which the world knows nothing about.   
   According to our faith, so it is done unto us.   
   Only believe, and all things are ours. We shall have clear and   
   deeply-seeded convictions in our minds of the reality of the invisible   
   world,   
   though we cannot communicate them to others,   
   or explain how we come to have them.   
   --St. John Henry Newman   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among nations: That we may give   
   thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.  (Psalms 105:47)   
      
      
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   Consecration   
      
   Most holy and Immaculate   
   Virgin, help of Christians   
   Mother of the Church,   
   we place ourselves under your   
   motherly protection.   
      
   We promise to be faithful to our   
   Christian vocation and to work   
   for the greater glory of God   
   and the salvation of our soul   
   and of those entrusted to us.   
      
   With faith in your intercession   
   we pray for the Church,   
   for our family and friends,   
   for youth, especially those most   
   in need, and for all your children.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)