ST EUGENIUS, BISHOP IN IRELAND

ST EUGENIUS, BISHOP IN IRELAND - 23 AUGUST

SAINT EUGENIUS, BISHOP IN IRELAND

Above: Saint Eugenius,
below: detail from St Eugenius, Co. Derry

The first establishment of the see of Derry was at a place called Ardfrath, on the river Derg, of which this saint [Eugenius, Eugene, Owen] was the first bishop.

AN EXCELLENT AND ASSIDUOUS PREACHER

He was an excellent and assiduous preacher, and is said to have been of the royal blood of the kings of Leinster.

He died on this day in 618, and was buried in his own churchyard, over whose sepulchre a chapel was afterwards built. Other writers place his death in 570.

LONDONDERRY

Notes: Derry is called in the old Roman Provincial, Darrich, and by ancient writers, Doire Chalgaich; i. e. the Oak grove of Calgaich; from whence Adamnan, translating the name into Latin, calls it Roboretum Calgachi. It is also called Doire Choluim-chille, or Columbkill’s oak-grove, from the monastery of that saint planted there. It has now the name of Londonderry, from a colony of Londoners settled there in the reign of James I.

Derg is a river rising out of a lake of the same name, in the barony of Tirhugh and county of Donegal.

Source: Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Eugenius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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