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  • A Chronological Index of Irish Saints

    Below is a list of Irish saints with an indication of the era in which they flourished, taken from a nineteenth-century encyclopaedia published in the United States. I am always interested to see which saints are included in sources like this and there is quite a selection here. There are the well-known saints of Ireland I would expect to find such as our three patrons – Patrick, Brigid and Colum Cille – but there are also saints who would not have been household names such as Aileran. The Irish missionary saints and scholars are well-represented. Particularly interesting is the reputedly fourth-century Saint Eliph, the earliest cited. Female saints too feature in the list, among them are the well-known such as Saint Ita (Ida) but also the less famous such as Breaca and Burian. Tomorrow I will begin to post the biographies which accompany the list.

    Chronological Index of Contents.

    SAINTS.

    Adamnan … 630

    Ailbe … 500

    Aileran … 600

    Albin … 750

    Albuin … 700

    Arbogast … 600

    Asicus … 450

    Benignus … 430

    Breaca and Burian … 475

    Brendan … 483

    Brendan of Birr … 525

    Bridget … 453

    Brieuc … 450

    Cailan … 547

    Cellach … 1106

    Christian … 1138

    Christian … 1150

    Colman … 516

    Colman … 950

    Columba … 530

    Columbkill

    Conlaeth … 470

    Declan … 500

    Desibod … 620

    Dymphna … 480

    Eithne … 550

    Eliph … 380

    Enda … 530

    Fearghal … 755

    Felix … 1170

    Finochta … 675

    Finian … 530

    Finian … 550

    Florentinus …

    Fridolinus … 450

    Gelascus … 1160

    Gilbert … 1080

    Gunifort … 400

    Ibar … 480

    Ida … 500

    Jarleth … 530

    Kevin … 550

    Kiaran … 530

    Kilian … 650

    Livinus … 630

    Macartin … 500

    Malchus … 1120

    Mannon … 1202

    Mansury … 100

    Mochelloe … 600

    Molocus … 620

    Muerdach … 450

    Munchin … 480

    Navel … 550

    O’Toole, Laurence … 1150

    Patrick … 450

    Rumbold … 750

    Sedulus … 785

    Senan … 540

    Tigernach … 550

    Wiro … 640

    James O’Brien, Irish Celts: a cyclopedia of race history, containing biographical sketches of more than fifteen hundred distinguished Irish Celts, with a chronological index, (Detroit, 1884).

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  • Saint Ciarán of Tigh-na-Gortigh, July 19

    One of the many Irish saints known only from the recording of his name on our calendars is commemorated on July 19. In the case of the otherwise anonymous Saint Ciarán, his name is linked to a locality but this too is unable to be identified, as Canon O’Hanlon explains:

    St. Ciaran, of Tigh-na-Gortigh.

    Veneration was given, at the 19th of July, as we find recorded in the Martyrology of Tallagh, to Ciaran o Tigh h. nGortigh. This place to which allusion is made has not been identified. He is entered in the Martyrology of Donegal, as Ciaran, of Tigh-na-Gortigh.Content Copyright © Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae 2012-2015. All rights reserved.

  • The Sons of Earcan of Brugh-Laogh, July 15

    Another of the interesting groups of Irish saints are commemorated on July 15. Sometimes in dealing with saints described as the sons or daughters of a particular person the sources preserve the names and number of the individuals involved, but in the case of the sons of Earcan of Brugh-Laogh, we do not have any further details. Canon O’Hanlon can only bring the recording of their names on the calendars:

    The Sons of Earcan, of Brugh-laogh.

    We find a festival entered, to honour Mac Ercain, at the 15th of July, and the Martyrology of Tallagh calls his place Bruigh-long, while that of Donegal spells it Brugh-laogh, and the sons of Earcan are set down, without any specification of their actual number or particular nnmes. Their place has not been identified.
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