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Saint Magloire of Dol (also Maglorius, Maelor), a sixth-century Welsh monk and cousin of Saint Samson, became bishop of Dol in Brittany and later abbot of a monastery on the island of Sark. Renowned for apostolic zeal, severe fasting, and wonders of healing and deliverance, he resigned his see at an angel's command and spent his last years in unceasing prayer. He died about 575 and is venerated on 24 October; his relics were later brought to Paris.
Saint Magloire, also called Maglorius, Meilyr, or Maelor, was born about the year 535 in Glamorgan in Wales. Tradition names his parents Umbrafel and Afrelia (or Aspelle), aunt and uncle of Saint Samson of Dol, so that Magloire was Samson's first cousin. As a boy he was formed at the school of Cor Tewdws under the great abbot Saint Illtud. After ordination he governed as abbot for many years a monastery at Lanmeur before crossing with Samson to Armorica (Brittany).
When Samson died, Magloire succeeded him as bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne. His preaching and pastoral care brought a great harvest of souls. After about three years, already advanced in age, he received a command from a visiting angel to resign the see in favor of Saint Budoc and to withdraw from the world. He first sought solitude on the mainland, then settled on the island of Sark (Sargia), where he founded a monastery and ruled some sixty or sixty-two monks.
There he lived in extreme austerity: barley bread and pulse, food only after sunset, total fasts on Wednesdays and Fridays, and a little fish added only on Sundays and feasts. For the last six months of his life he scarcely left the church except when necessity compelled him, often sighing the words of the psalm: "One thing I have asked of the Lord; this will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life." He died about the year 575 (tradition also records other dates near the turn of the seventh century) and was honored on 24 October.
After his death the monks of Léhon took his body; in the tenth century, under threat of Viking raids, the relics were carried to Paris, where a church and later a famous seminary bore his name. They rest today associated with the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. The ancient Vita Sancti Maglorii, composed centuries later yet treasured as a masterpiece of Breton hagiography, preserves the memory of his miracles and of the monastic life he planted on Sark.
May Saint Magloire obtain for us the grace of persevering prayer and the courage to leave earthly honors for the house of the Lord.
OCTOBER 24 — ST. MAGLOIRE, B. C
Was fellow-disciple of St. Sampson under St. Iltutus in Wales, his cousin, and his zealous companion in his apostolical labors in Armorica or Brittany, and he succeeded him in the abbey of Dole, and in the episcopal character. His labors were attended with a great harvest of souls. After three years he resigned his bishopric, being seventy years old, and retired into a desert on the continent, and some time after into the isle of Jersey, where he founded and governed a monastery of sixty monks. He lived on barley bread and pulse, ate only after sunset, and on Wednesdays and Fridays took no nourishment at all: on Sundays and festivals he added to his bread a little fish. For six months before he died he never stirred out of the church, but when he was obliged by some necessity; and he frequently repeated with sighs: One thing I have asked of the Lord: this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.1 He died about the year 575, and is honored on the 24th of October. His relics were removed to Paris for fear of the Normans, with those of St. Sampson, in the tenth century, and are there kept in the church of St. James,* which now bears his name, was a Benedictin monastery, but now belongs to the great seminary of the French Oratorians, and the abbacy is united to the archbishopric. See Lobin. Hist. Eccl. de Paris, t. 1,1. 3, pp. 119, 548 et Vies des SS. de Bretagne, p. 144; Baillet, and the new Paris Breviary.
Izvori: Wikidata Wikipedia Causes of Saints Live web brief for Magloire; also known as Maglorius, Meilyr, Maeler, Magloire de Dol, Maglorio di Dol, saint Magloire; died 575; Q3463964 Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints Također naveden Wikidata
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