3rd AUGUST: ST WALTHEN, ABBOT OF MELROSS
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1. St Walthen (Waltheof) was second son of Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, and Maud, daughter to Judith, niece of William the Conqueror. The consideration of the snares of the world led him to his religious profession
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2. among the regular canons of St Austin, St Oswald’s monastery at Nostel, near Pontefract in Yorkshire. Here he lived concealed from the world, in the company of his crucified Jesus.
After some time he was promoted to the holy order of priesthood. Walthen then took the habit
3. at Wardon, a Cistercian convent in Bedfordshire.
Four years after his profession Walthen was chosenAbbot of Melross, a great monastery in the marches of Scotland, on the river Tweed.
In a famine which happened in 1154, he and his monks contented themselves with half their
4. pittances of bread, in order to supply the poor. He twice multiplied bread miraculously.
His last, painful illness he bore with the most edifying silence and patience. Having exhorted his brethren to charity and regular discipline,
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5. and received the last sacraments, lying on sackcloth and ashes, he calmly gave up his soul to God on the 3d of August, 1160. (Excerpts from Butler's "Lives of the Saints")
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