St Noe of Finglas, January 27
January 27 is the commemoration of a County Dublin saint, Noe of Finglas. In a paper entitled 'Finglas' read to the Old Dublin Society on October 13, 1971, Michael J Tutty summarised the early history...
View ArticleSaint Aedhlugh of Aird or Eridh-Cassain, January 28
The name of another otherwise obscure Irish holy man is recorded in the Irish calendars at January 28 - Saint Aedhlugh of Aird or Eridh-Cassain. Canon O'Hanlon brings us the details:St. Aedhlugh of...
View ArticleSaint Mocheanna, January 29
January 29 is the feast of the wonderful Saint Blath, cook to Saint Brigid of Kildare. It's a day she shares with another Irish holy woman, this one rather more obscure, as Canon O'Hanlon explains:St....
View ArticleSaint Cronan the Priest, January 30
January 30 is the commemoration of a Saint Cronan, who is recorded in the calendars as having been a priest. Nothing else is known of him, as Canon O' Hanlon explains:St. Cronan, a Priest. The name of...
View ArticleSaint Aidan of Ferns, January 31
January 31 is the feast of the patron of the Diocese of Ferns, Saint Aidan, also known as Saint Moedoc or Mogue. Below is a paper on the life of the saint from the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, signed...
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Saint Brigid of Fiesole, February 1
M. Stokes, Six Months in the Apennines (1892)February 1 is chiefly remembered in Ireland as the feast day of our national patroness Saint Brigid of Kildare. Curiously, it is also the date of...
View ArticleAn Irish Church in Germany
February 9 is the feast of the Blessed Marianus Scotus, an 11th-century Donegal man who was a monastic and scribe in Germany. I have already reprinted the paper by Bishop William Reeves on the life of...
View ArticleOn Fasting: From a Homily in the Leabhar Breac
'It is by food that Esau lost his birthright, and sold it to his brother; through fasting the noble prophet acquired a victory, and was rescued from the lions' den; through fasting Moses, the son of...
View ArticleSome Miracles from the Life of Saint Berach
February 15 is the feast of Saint Berach, a post on whose life can be found here. Below are some of the miracles attributed to the saint by his hagiographers and a final eulogy in his honour:How Saint...
View ArticleSome Miracles from the Life of Saint Fintan
February 17 is the commemoration of Saint Fintan of Clonenagh. The seventeenth-century hagiologist, Father John Colgan, published a Life of Saint Fintan from the Codex-Kilkenniensis at this day, and...
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Saint Colga of Lusk, February 20
February 20 is the feastday of Saint Colga the Wise, lector at Clonmacnoise, reputed teacher of the English saint Alcuin and author of a famous prayer known as the Scuab Chrabhaidh (Broom or Besom of...
View ArticleIrish Saints of March
As this is the beginning of March, below is a 1921 article on some of the saints whose feasts occur within this month. Not surprisingly Saint Patrick is the first saint the author, 'Magdalen Rock', a...
View ArticleOmnium Sanctorum Hiberniae now on Facebook
Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae finally has its own Facebook page - hope to add regular updates.Content Copyright © Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae 2012-2016. All rights reserved.
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The Church at Killiney
March 6 is the commemoration of a group of County Dublin holy women, the Daughters of Leinin. Canon O'Hanlon's account of them can be found here but below is another nineteenth century account, this...
View ArticleSaint Mocelloc in the Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore
March 7 is the feast of Saint Mocelloc of Magh-Scethe, a hermit said to have been a contemporary of the famous Saint Declan of Ardmore. He and his fellow hermits feature in the Life of Saint...
View ArticleThe Feast Which Surpasses All Others
And though all feasts fully deserve their celebration and honour in these three ways, still more does this festival; for in it is the assembling together of the folk of heaven and earth; it is the...
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Beatha Mhuire Eigiptacdha - The Irish Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
French 15th c. illustration. Photo credit: WikipediaMarch 28 is one of the commemorations of the female ascetic, Saint Mary of Egypt, c. 344-421. This was the date at which her feast day was entered in...
View ArticleSaint Aedhan of Derrybrughas, March 29
A saint from County Armagh is commemorated at March 29 on the Irish calendars - Aedhan of Derrybrughas. Although Canon O'Hanlon's account below does not mention it, Pádraig Ó Riain suggests in his...
View ArticleSaint Colman, March 30
On March 30 we have yet another Saint Colman commemorated on the Irish calendars. Indeed, it seems we have more than one for there is a Saint Colman of Linns also commemorated today. Canon O'Hanlon's...
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Saint Machabeo of Armagh, March 31
Canon O'Hanlon brings us details of a twelfth century abbot of Armagh commemorated on March 31 - Saint Machabeo. The notes to the Martyrology of Gorman provide him with this eulogy:Gilla mo-Chaidbeo,...
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