Saints

Bishop. Patron of Paul in Cornwall. He is also known as Saint Pol de Leon. According to his Life written by Wrmonoc, a 10th century monk from Landevennec, he was the son of a Welsh chieftain who was educated at the monastery of St Iltyd. He became a monk, and together with 12 companions migrated to Brittany where they built a number of churches and monasteries. He became bishop at Pol, which was... Read More

Monk and writer. Oengus was the author of the earliest Irish Martyrology, called the 'Felire'. Born of a royal Ulster family, he was educated at the monastery of Clonenagh (Co Laois). He lived as a hermit at Disertbeagh where he practised a life of austerity, reading the psalter daily while submersed in cold water, fasting and many genuflections. In later life he joined the monastery of Tallacht... Read More

Abbot. Gerald was an Englishman who became a monk at Lindisfarne in the 8th century. He then travelled to Inishbofin in Galway with St Colman of Lindisfarne and was later made abbot of the English part of the monastery, at Mayo. The community became known as the Mayo of the Saxons. It flourished and was known as a great centre of study. St Gerald also founded the abbeys of Tempul-Gerald in Conna... Read More