ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 18th of May WELCOME! SAINT BRAUNS, CONFESSOR ⬅️ List: Irish Confessors and Martyrs Saint Brauns, (commemorated on May 18), a nephew of Abbot Saint Columba on the island of Hy, is venerated in the church of Cleonadh in Hifoelain in the province of Leinster. For this reason he is also called Branus Reg or Barvus de Cleonadh . Migne * lists him as a confessor of Cleonanad in Leinster and states that he died around the year 600. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1858, pp. 510-11) *A hagiography source used by the authors Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Brauns 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. ...