CILLEN CENANNANI, MONK

CILLEN CENANNANI, MONK - 26 MARCH

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CILLEN CENANNANI, MONK

An Illustration from the Book of Kells¹

Killenus [Cillen Cenannani, Cullen Cenannani](March 26), who appears in Irish martyrologies, is listed by the Bollandists* - along with three others - among their Praetermissi (omitted entries). Dr. Kelly* calls him Cillen Cenannani, but, as is usual, without further details. (III. 606).

*A hagiography source used by the authors

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, 617)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

Cillen Cenannani (often modernized as Cullen Cenannani) is an early medieval Irish saint documented in ancient Christian hagiographies. The primary record of this individual comes from the Martyrology of Tallaght, a 10th-century calendar of Irish saints compiled at the monastery of Tallaght near Dublin. "Cenannani" functions as an epithet or locational identifier in Old Irish. It translates to "of Kells" (from Ceanannas, the Irish name for Kells, County Meath). The entry indicates a saint named Cillen (Cullen) associated with that historical monastic site. According to the calendar, the feast day dedicated to this saint is May 27 (noted as the 6th of the Calends of June).

Source: Google AI; https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_wbUCAAAAQAAJ/bub_gb_wbUCAAAAQAAJ_djvu.txt

¹Image: Book of Kells; The Four Evangelist's Symbols

The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created in a Columban monastery in either Scotland, England, or Ireland and may have had contributions from various Columban institutions from each of these areas. It is believed to have been created c. 800 AD. The text of the Gospels is largely drawn from the Vulgate, although it also includes several passages drawn from the earlier versions of the Bible known as the Vetus Latina. It is a masterwork of Western calligraphy. The manuscript takes its name from the Abbey of Kells, which was its home for centuries.

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