A Chronology of Irish Saints: B
We continue the series of biographies of Irish saints listed on this chronological list, now looking at saints whose names begin with the letter B. Needless to say Saint Brigid has the largest entry in...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: C
Continuing the series of biographies from this chronological list of Irish saints with those whose names begin with the letter C. Once again there is a good spread of saints here including our tertiary...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: D-E
Moving on with the biographies linked to this nineteenth-century chronological list of Irish saints by looking at those saints whose names begin with the letters D and E. We begin with Saint Declan and...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: F-G
The biographies of the saints listed in this nineteenth-century encyclopedia's chronological list continue with those listed under the letters F-G. We have no female saints in this selection but those...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: I-L
We move on to details of those saints whose names begin with the letters I through L from this chronological list of Irish saints. There is another worthwhile selection here starting with the so-called...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: M
The biographies of the saints cited in the nineteenth-century encyclopedia's list continues with those listed under the letter M. It's another interesting selection including saints associated with...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: N-P
The biographies of the saints listed in the nineteenth-century encyclopaedia chronological list continues with those whose names come under the letters N-P. There are only three featured, one for each...
View ArticleA Chronology of Irish Saints: R-W
We conclude the series of biographies of Irish saints linked to this nineteenth-century chronological list with those whose names come under the letters R, S, T and W:RUMOLD ST., bishop of Dublin and...
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Saint Berchán of Clúain Sosta, August 4
The Martyrology of Tallaght at 4th August records the commemoration of Berchán of Clúain Sosta (Cloonsast, County Offally). Canon O'Hanlon has a very sparse entry for this saint, perhaps he intended to...
View ArticleIrish Saints in August
Below is an article by Irish writer Magdalen Rock on some of the saints whose feasts we will be commemorating in the month of August. Once again the author includes an impressive range of saints, she...
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A Septet of Irish Hagiologists
I have recently finished posting a series of biographies of Irish saints taken from a nineteenth-century encyclopaedia published in the United States. The same volume also contains potted biographies...
View ArticleSaint Molocca of Tullyallen, August 7
Among the saints commemorated on the Irish calendars at August 7 is one whom Canon O'Hanlon feels is associated with a locality in County Louth. All he can tell us of Saint Molocca is the recording of...
View ArticleSaint Curcach of Cloonlogher, August 8
One of our enigmatic female saints, Curcach of Cluain-Lothair, is commemorated on the earliest of the surviving Irish calendars, the Martyrology of Tallaght, on August 8. Canon O'Hanlon identifies the...
View ArticleThe Four Sons of Ercan, August 9
One of the interesting groups of Irish saints is commemorated on August 9. In this case we are told that there are four males and that they are the sons of Ercan, but there are no other details of...
View ArticleThe Arrival of Saint Maelruain with the Relics of the Saints at Tallaght,...
Canon O'Hanlon has a notice of a wonderful feast of the translation of the relics of the saints by Saint Maelruain of Tallaght at August 10:The Arrival or St. Maolruain, with the Relics of Virgins and...
View ArticleSaint Liadhain of Killyon, August 11
We have an unusually large number of female saints commemorated on the Irish calendars at August 11. Among them are Saint Attracta and Saint Lelia and now we can meet another holy lady whose feast...
View ArticleSaint Attracta's Stags
Below is a poem telling the story of the miracle of the hard-hearted King Keannfaelid and Saint Attracta, whose feast is celebrated on August 11:THE BALLAD OF SAINT ATHRACTA'S STAGSATHRACTA was a...
View ArticleSaint Wigbert, Missionary in Frisia. August 13
August 13 is the day on which one of the famous Anglo-Saxons who studied in Ireland is commemorated - Saint Wigbert, who laboured among the Frisians. As Canon O'Hanlon is at pains to point out, he is...
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Saint Werenfrid, Missionary in Frisia, August 14
Right on the heels of Saint Wigbert, we commemorate at August 14 another of the missionaries to Frisia who had been prepared for his labours in Ireland, Saint Werenfrid. As Canon O'Hanlon puts it,...
View ArticleSaint Saran, August 15
August 15 is the commemoration of a Saint Saran in the Irish calendars. As Canon O'Hanlon explains below, he is one of a dozen saints who share this name and thus almost impossible to identify:St....
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