ST IBAR, BISHOP - 23 APRIL

SAINT IBAR, BISHOP

Saint Ibar was a pre-Patrician Irish saint, who laboured in the present County Wexford from 425 to 450, recognised the jurisdiction of Saint Patrick, and was confirmed in his episcopacy. Thus, though a missionary before the arrival of the great national apostle, Saint Ibar was a contemporary of St Patrick, and is regarded as the patron of Begerin, in Wexford harbour. Although at first not disposed to yield to Saint Patrick he afterwards submitted and became his disciple.

Much obscurity attaches to his early training, but about the year 480 he settled at Begerin, where he built an oratory and cell. In the "Life of Saint Abban" it is stated that Saint Ibar's retreat was soon peopled with numerous disciples from all parts of Ireland, and the "Litany of Aengus" invokes the three thousand confessors who placed themselves under Saint Ibar's direction. His nephew, Saint Abban, as a boy of twelve came to Begerin in Saint Ibar's old age and accompanied him to Rome. His name is variously written Ibar, Iberius, and Ivor, and his death is chronicled in the year 500 on April 23, on which day his feast is observed. Although Begerin was formerly an island in the north of Wexford harbour, it has long since been one of the reclaimed Sloblands.

Source: William Henry Grattan - Flood, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Ibar 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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