Celtic and Old English Saints 14 June =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Brendan the Navigator * St. Cearan the Devout * St. Dogmael of Pembroke * St. Nennus of the Isle of Arran * St. Psalmodius of Limoges =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Translation of the Relics of St. Brendan the Navigator, Abbot and Founder of Clonfert, Ireland, Who Sailed to America ------------------------------------------------------------ See his Life , 16 May, archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/message/2679 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/message/2681 Troparion of St Brendan tone 4 The Divine Likeness has been perfected in thee, O holy Father Brendan,/ for taking up the Cross thou hast followed Christ,/ and by thy deeds thou hast taught us to disdain the flesh for it passes away,/ but to cultivate the soul for it is immortal:/ wherefore, O holy father, thy spirit rejoices with the Angels. St. Cearan the Devout, Abbot of Bellach-Duin, County Meath, Ireland (Ciaran) ----------------------------------------------------- Died 870. Cearan was an Irish abbot of Bellach-Duin (Castle- Keerant), County Meath (Benedictines). St. Dogmael, Hermit of Pembroke, Wales ------------------------------ (also known as Docmael, Dogfael, Dogmeel, Dogwel, Toel) Early 6th century. A Welsh monk of the house of Cunedda, Dogmael founded several cells in Pembrokeshire, Brittany, and Anglesey. Under the name Toel, he is titular saint of a church in Trequier in Brittany, and is probably identical to Dogmeel who has a considerable cultus in Brittany, where he is invoked to help children to learn to walk (Benedictines, Farmer, Husenbeth). St. Nennus, Abbot of the Isle of Arran, Scotland ------------------------------------- (also known as Nenus, Nehemias) 7th century. Nennus, born into the O'Birn family, succeeded Saint Enda as abbot of the monasteries of the Arran and Bute isles in 654 (Benedictines, Encyclopaedia, Husenbeth). St. Psalmodius, Hermit of Limoges, France, Disciple of Saint Brendan ------------------------------------------------ (also known as Psalmet, Sauman, Saumay) Died c. 690; second feast on August 6. Psalmodius, of Irish or Scottish descent, became a disciple of Saint Brendan. About 630, he took Brendan's advice and migrated to France where he lived as a hermit in the forest of Grie near Limoges. In France, he placed himself under the direction of Bishop Saint Leontius of Saintes, who helped him progress still further in Christian virtue. His relics are kept in a silver shrine in the collegiate church of Saint Agapotus in Languedoc (Benedictines, Husenbeth). Sources: ======== Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine Abbey, Ramsgate. (1947). The Book of Saints. NY: Macmillan. Encyclopedia of Catholic Saints, June. (1966). Philadelphia: Chilton Books. Farmer, D. H. (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Husenbeth, Rev. F. C., DD, VG (ed.). (1928). Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. London: Virtue & Co. For All the Saints: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm Orthodox Ireland Saints http://www.orthodoxireland.com/saints/ An Alphabetical Index of the Saints of the West http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/saintsa.htm These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints *****************************************
