• December 12th - St. Corentin (Cury)

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    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    December 12th - St. Corentin (Cury)

    Died c. 490 (though some claim him for the 6th century); a second
    feast day on May 1 is probably in honour of his translation. There may
    be some confusion between Corentinus, first bishop of Cornouaille
    (Quimper), Brittany, and the saintly founder and patron of Cury
    (Corentin) on Lizard Island of Cornwall (died 401?) whose feast is
    also today, and whose cultus spread throughout southwestern England
    and Wales. This second was a hermit at the foot of Mount Menehont in Devonshire, who preached with great success and is said to have died
    there. They may be two people or one; however, in 1890, a fresco was
    discovered at Breage (the mother-church of Lizard), which depicts
    Saint Corentin/Cury in a cope and mitre with the pastoral staff of a
    bishop. Beside him is a fish, from which he was reputed to have cut
    and eaten one slice each day, without any diminution in the size of
    the fish.

    The complete story of St Corentin's Fish
    St Corentin was first Bishop of Quimper in Brittany, and lived in a
    hermit's cell at the top of the mountain of Saint-Come. Near by
    bubbled a spring which had for its lone inhabitant a fish. How
    Corentin first discovered the little fish's disposition, as well as
    his ability to provide him with a daily meal is not told. We are only
    assured that every day Corentin went to the basin into which the
    spring flowed, put his hand into the water, drew out of it the fish,
    sliced from him a cutlet sufficient for his day's food, and then
    placed him back in the water.

    As his performance continued for years, the truth is not to be doubted
    that the fish was daily healed of his wound, and his flesh entirely
    restored.

    One day the King came hunting in the vicinity, as was the wont of
    kings, and, as also seems to have been their habit, he with a single
    retainer was either lost--or else he strayed or stole away from the
    rest of his party. On this occasion, the retainer happened to be the
    King's cook. When both King and cook arrived at Corentin's cell they
    were hungry, and the hermit was obliged to cut an unusually large
    slice of his fish to feed his two guests.

    Even so King Gallo's cook sneered at sight of the slender portion, but
    he fried it--and as he fried, it increased and increased until it
    filled the pan, and proved more than sufficient for all three--King,
    cook, and Saint.

    When the rest of the party, after a long search for their King, arrived
    on the spot and were told of the miraculous animal, they trooped to
    the basin to have a look at him. There he was, frolicking in the
    water, with not even a scar where he had so lately been wounded. The
    retinue were greatly interested, and one, bolder than the rest, taking
    out his hunting knife, and performing the operation which had been
    described to him, carved a substantial piece out of the back of the
    fish. All were aghast at what then happened, for the fish, far from
    taking the performance as a matter of course, wriggled feebly back
    into the water, lay on his side gasping, and looked as if he were
    about to die.

    Corentin was hastily summoned, and when he arrived quickly uttered a
    prayer, healed his friend, and bade him depart from the basin before
    any other heedless knave attracted by rumours of the miracle should
    make further experiments upon him.

    But Corentin did not subsequently go hungry on this account, for King
    Gallo, impressed by the occurrence, made him a gift of all the rich
    forest of Plou-Vaudiern and the hunting-lodge standing in it, which
    the Saint enjoyed for the rest of his days.

    The story that unites the two claims that Corentin was a Celtic hermit
    who retired to the forest of Plomodiern, where he lived in solitude
    for several years. After the death of Marcellus, who had subscribed to
    the first council of Tours, and the several other British bishops who
    migrated to Brittany, new pastors were needed for the British in
    Armorica who were familiar with the language and customs. Thus,
    Corentin was recruited and consecrated bishop by Saint Martin of Tours
    ((f.d. November 11), who had been dead for some time). It is said that
    Count Grallo I of Cornouaille (died c. 445) gave his palace at Quimper
    to serve as the home and cathedral of the new bishop. An ancient cross
    stands near his church. Corentin participated in the council of Angers
    in 453 and signed the canons under the name Charaton. He was said to
    have been a friend of Guennole (?).

    Corentin's relics were translated to Marmoutier at Tours in 878 to
    protect them from destruction at the hands of the Normans (Attwater 2, Benedictines, Coulson, Encyclopaedia, Farmer, Husenbeth).


    Saint Quote :
    But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any
    treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than
    renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the
    Divine Heart. In this way His will can carry out for us whatever
    contributes to His glory, and we will be happy to be His subjects and
    to trust entirely in Him.
    --Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

    Bible Quote:
    =C2 And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove
    them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money
    of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew. 16 And to
    them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not
    the house of my Father a house of traffic.=C2 (John 2:15-16)


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    Short Prayers

    Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

    My loving Jesus, out of the grateful love I bear Thee and to make
    reparation for my unfaithfulness to grace, I give Thee my heart, and I consecrate myself wholly to Thee, and with Thy help I purpose never to
    sin again.

    Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who, glorifying in the
    most Sacred Heart of Thy Beloved Son, cherish within us the especial
    benefits of that love, may be equally gladdened both by their action
    and by their fruit. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.



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