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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 13th of January WELCOME! SAINT CONAN, BISHOP OF THE ISLE OF MAN Saint Conan, Bishop of the Isle of Man, died January, 684. He was an Irish missionary, also known as Mochonna. He is not to be confounded with Saint Conindrius , who is said to have been a disciple of Saint Patrick, and to have lived to be a very advanced age (November 17, 560). The Bollandists place Saint Conan amongst the early bishops of Man, and Colgan gives an account of his life and labours. Unfortunately the history of the Isle of Man in the fifth and sixth centuries is very obscure, and it is difficult to get at definite facts, yet Saint Conan, or Mochonna, who is also described as "Bishop of Inis-Patrick " left a distinct impress of his zeal for souls in Manxland . Some authorities give the date of his death as January 26 , but Colgan, quoting from the ancient Irish martyrologies, gives January 13, on which day Saint Conan's feast is observe...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 26th of January WELCOME! SAINT CONON, BISHOP OF THE ISLE OF MAN  If we can give credit to some lives of Saint Fiaker , and the old Breviary of Limoges, that saint was son of Eugenius, king of Scotland, and by his father committed in his childhood, with his two brothers, to the care of St Conon, from which saintly education he received that ardent love and perfect spirit of piety, by which he was distinguished during the whole course of his life.  A SAINT FROM HIS INFANCY Conon, by the purity and fervour in which he served God, was a saint from his infancy. The Isle of Man, which was a famous ancient seat of the Druids, is said to have received the seeds of the Christian faith, by the zeal of St Patrick.  THE BISHOPRIC St Conon, passing thither from Scotland, completed that great work, and is said to have been made bishop of Man, or of Sodor , supposed by these authors to have been anciently a town in this is...