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8th JULY: ST KILIAN

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1. Kilian or Kuln was a holy Irish monk. With two zealous companions he travelled to Rome in 686, and obtained of Pope Conon a commission to preach the gospel to the German idolaters in Franconia; upon which occasion
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2. Kilian was invested with episcopal authority.

The missionaries converted and baptised great numbers at Wurzburg, and among others Gosbert, the duke of that name. This prince had taken to wife Geilana, the relict of his deceased brother; and being put in mind by St Kilian

3. that such a marriage was condemned and void by the law of the gospel, he promised to dismiss her, saying that we are bound to love God above father, mother, or wife.

Geilana was outraged beyond measure at this resolution; jealousy and ambition equally inflaming her breast;

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