ST BROGAN-CLOEN OF ROSTUIRC, ABBOT - 17 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 17th of September

WELCOME!

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST BROGAN, ABBOT 

[Saint Brogan-Cloen of Rostuirc] St Brogan flourished in the sixth or seventh century. Several persons in repute for holiness seem to have borne this name, which is variously written Brogan, Broccan, Bracan, and even Bearchan and Bearchanus. 

SEVERAL SAINTS BORE THIS NAME

Of these, two are commemorated in the Irish Martyrologium of Aengus, the early date of which (c.800) is now generally admitted. There, under July 8, we read: "Brocan, the scribe, gained a noble triumph without any fall"; and under September 17: "Brocan of Ross Tuirc thou shouldst declare". 

THE AUTHOR OF AN EARLY IRISH HYMN UPON ST BRIGID

Colgan speaks as if he were inclined to identify both these persons with the author of an early Irish hymn upon St Brigid. 

The glosses upon Aengus and the Martyrology of Gorman, while seemingly treating them as distinct, prove that the matter admits of no certainty. 

SOME OTHER THEORIES

Some modern hagiographers incline to regard the Saint Brogan of July 8 as the amanuensis and possibly the nephew of St Patrick. They style him bishop and locate him at Maethail-Brogain, now Mothil in Waterford; but this is admittedly quite doubtful. 

St Brogan of Rosstuirc, on the other hand, is identified with the author of the hymn to St Brigid, and is believed to be the Abbot Brochanus referred to in the Life of St Abban, preserved in the "Codex Salmanticensis". Rosstuirc is generally assigned to the Diocese of Ossory, and may be Rossmore in Queen’s County. 

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)