HILARY (HILARUS), 46th Pope of Rome, prior to his election to the Patriarchate of Rome, St. Hilary served as an aide to Pope St. Leo the Great (10th November), Papal Legate at the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449, worked on updating the method of calculating Pascha. Following the repose of St. Leo the Great in 461, St. Hilary was elected his successor. As Pope, he fought the Christological heresies of Nestorianism and Arianism, held several councils at Rome, his council of 465 is the earliest Roman council whose records are extant, and continued St. Leo the Great’s policy of strengthening papal authority in Gaul and Hispania. St. Hilary reposed in 468.

LLIBIO, (Sixth Century) St. Llibio is the patron saint of Llanlibio in the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) off the north-west coast of Wales. According to Church of England priest, hagiographer, and all round scholar Sabine Baring Baring-Gould (†1924) he was one of the sons of Seithenin, who, along with his brothers, joined Dwnawd’s monastery at Bangor after the flooding of the Plain of Gwyddno.

MACARIUS, RUFINUS, JUSTUS, and THEOPHILUS, a group of potters martyred during the Decian Persecution, circa 250.

MAIDOC (MADOC), there is no definitive information on this saint extent, though it is most likely he is the sixth century bishop (or perhaps only abbot), after whom Llanmadog in Glamorganshire is called.

OSWALD of WORCESTER, (in leap years 29th February), the nephew of St. Oda of Canterbury (2nd June) under whom he began his studies. St. Oswald later went to the Abbey of St. Benedict on the Loire (abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire — Fleury Abbey) to continue his studies and receive monastic tonsure, and ultimately, ordination to the priesthood. Returning to England, St. Oswald was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, and worked with SS. Dunstan (19th May) and Æthelwold (1st August), with enormous success, to revive monastic life, and religious discipline in Anglo-Saxon England. He personally founded monasteries at Ramsey and Worcester, and was subsequently promoted to the Archbishopric of York (972). St. Oswald reposed whilst on his knees engaged in his daily practice of washing the feet of twelve poor people, circa 990.

ROMANUS of CONDAT, at the age of thirty-five he went to live as a hermit in the Jura mountains, where he was followed by his brother St. Lupicinus (21st March). As was so often the case, St. Romanus attracted many disciples for which he founded the Abbey of St. Claude (abbaye de Saint-Claude) at Condat and Leuconne (present-day Saint-Lupicin, serving as joint Abbot, as well as a third one at near-by La Beaume where their sister was abbess. St. Romanus reposed circa 460.

RUELLINUS (RUELLIN), a sixth century Bishop of Tréguier in Brittany.

SILLAN (SILVANUS), a disciple of St. Comgall (10th May) at Bangor in Co. Down, and one of his successors there as abbot. Although there is no further certain knowledge of him, he seems to have had a great reputation for sanctity. Various sources have placed the year of his repose as either 606 or 610.

ALPHEGE the ELDER, he was called the Elder to distinguish him from his more famous namesake, St. Alphege the Martyr of Canterbury and Greenwich (19th April). St. Alphege was a monk of singularly holy life, and encouraged many others to become monks, notably his relative St. Dunstan (19th May), whom he ordained priest. St. Alphege succeeded St. Birnstan (4th November) in the See of Winchester in 935, serving until his repose from natural causes in 951. His relics were enshrined at Winchester.

MAMILIAN (MAXIMILIAN), a third century martyr in Rome of whom nothing further is known.

MAXIMILIAN, when called-up for military service, St. Maximilian refused to serve on the grounds military service was inconsistent with his faith. As a result, he was beheaded in 295 at Thebeste in Numidia (present-day Algeria).

MURA MCFEREDACH (MURAN, MURAMES), St. Mura McFeredach was the first Abbot and patron saint of Fahan, on the Inishowen Peninsula, in Co. Donegal, Ireland. His staff and bell were held to have miraculous powers and were greatly venerated. The exact year of St. Mura McFeredach's repose is unknown, other than it was sometime in the seventh century.

PAUL AURELIAN, a Romano-Briton prince who was educated at St. Illtyd's (6th November) monastery and school (Cor Tewdws), in present-day Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, Wales with SS. David (1st March), Gildas the Wise (29th January), Illtyd (6th November), and Samson (28th July). After his time at Cor Tewdws, St. Paul, along with twelve other monks, went to Brittany where they established a monastery at Porz-Pol on the Isle of Ouessant. Later St. Paul was convinced to accept elevation to the Bishopric of Ouismor, now known as Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Brittany, France. St. Paul reposed circa 575.

PETER the DEACON, disciple, secretary, and companion of St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September). St. Gregory dictated the first four books of his Dialogues to St. Peter. St. Peter reposed circa 605.