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Saint Christian O'Connarchy of Mellifont, March 18
Mellifont Abbey: A Guide and Popular History (1897) We commemorate an Irish saint today who achieved high office within the Church and was a pioneering leader of the Cistercian order at its original...
View ArticleSaint Mocholla, March 23
March 23 sees the recording of a number of obscure female saints on the Irish calendars. Along with an elusive Saint Lasair and the Daughters of Feradach, we also find a Saint Mocholla.Ā I find this...
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An Irish Quatrain to be Sung while Washing the Hands
Medieval medicine relied much on prayers and charms which straddle the dividing line between religion and magic. This Irish quatrain, translated by the great German Celticist Kuno Meyer, is addressed...
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Spy Wednesday - Woe to Judas Iscariot
108. Woe to Judas Iscariot whose intention is to betray the Lord. Selling Christ! ā an evil bargain this for the thirty silver pieces.109. Evil were the propensities of that man ā he had striven after...
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The King made Obeisance to his Apostles on Thursday
The King through his pure mindmade obeisance to his apostles on Thursday,in bright glory,before the great Pasch of the resurrection.Saltair na RannContent Copyright Ā© Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae...
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A Blessing on Christ who has Suffered Cross and Martyrdom
A blessing on Christ, son of the living God,who has suffered cross and martyrdom;who has atoned on the cross, on the rood,for the transgression of Adam and Eve.James Carney, ed. and trans., The Poems...
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Our Champion has Arisen
Although Jesus was crucified,Ā our Lord, our Champion,he has arisen as the pure Kingof all that he created.First Prologue to theĀ FĆ©ilire OengussoContent Copyright Ā© Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae 2012-2020....
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An Irish Easter Legend.
An Irish Easter Legend. Being in the north-west of Ireland last summer, on the borders of Sligo and Donegal, I chanced upon a famous Shanachie, or story-teller, an Irish-speaking peasant, who possessed...
View ArticleIrish Saints' Names - April
Recently while browsing the digitized newspaper collection at the National Library of Australia I came across a series of articles on Irish Saints' names, written to promote the idea that Irish parents...
View ArticleIrish Saints' Names - May
Another offering from the Australian press on suggestions for good Irish names, this time looking at the saints of May: Irish Saints' Names.There are many who think that the Irish saints are only a...
View ArticleSt. Cathaldus of Taranto, May 10
May 10 is the feast of Saint Cathaldus (Cataldus, Cathal), an Irish saint who flourished in Italy. His life and career is still the subject of debate, an 1896 paper can be found here but below is a...
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Saint Carthach of Lismore, May 14
May 14 is the feast of Saint Carthach (Carthage, Carthagh. Mochuda) of Lismore. I have previously published an introduction to the saint here and a paper on his life here but today we have a fresh...
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Belgium Honours Saint Dymphna
Today is the feast of Saint Dymphna, a saint who embodies all of the difficulties in trying to untangle the facts about the lives and identities of the Irish saints. The story that has come down to us...
View ArticleThe Sailor Saint of Erin
May 16 is the feast of Saint Brendan of Clonfert. I have already reproduced a rather voluminous account of his life which can be accessed from the tab on the home page, but it is useful to have a...
View ArticleIrish Saints' Names - June
A selection of suggestions for naming children, this time for the month of June. Note that at June 2, Saint Colman is associated with Kilchief in Down, that is a typo for Kilclief. I am impressed by...
View ArticleNew Blog on the Irish Martyrs
Today, the Feast of the Irish Martyrs, I am launching De Processu Martyriali, a new blog dedicated to all those who gave their lives for the Catholic faith in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I...
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Irish Saints' Names - July
Another selection of Irish saints' names asĀ suggested to readers of the Southern Cross in Adelaide, Australia in 1914. This selection relates to saints whose feasts occur in July and the more obscure...
View ArticleSaint Golgus (Colgus of Iona), July 17
Some of the problems faced by hagiologists in their study of the saints are illustrated by Article VIII for July 17 in Volume VII of Canon O'Hanlon's Lives of the Irish Saints. Hesuggests that in the...
View ArticleIrish Saints' Names - August
Another selection from 1914 of Irish saints, this time of those whose feasts fall in the month of August, offered as suggestions for naming children:IRISH SAINTS' NAMES.There are many who think that...
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Irish Saints' Names - September
Another selection of Irish saints' names as suggestions for Christian names for children, part of the series syndicated by the Australian press in 1914. This is the list of those saints whose feasts...
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