ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 16th of May WELCOME! SAINT BRENDAN THE ELDER, ABBOT ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Brendan was son of Findloga, and a disciple of Saint Finian at Clonard . Passing afterwards into Wales he lived some time under the discipline of St Gildas, and also several years in the abbey of Llan-Carven, in Glamorganshire. He built in Britain the monastery of Ailech, and another church in a territory called Heth. HE FOUNDED SEVERAL MONASTERIES Returning into Ireland he founded there several schools and monasteries, the chief of which was that of Cluain-Fearta. He wrote a monastic rule which was long famous in Ireland, taught some time at Ros-Carbre, and died at Enachduin, a monastery which he had built for his sister Briga, in Connaught. "HIDDEN PLACE" He is named in the Roman Martyrology on May 16, on which he passed to bliss, in the year 578, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. Cluain, in the old Irish language si...