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ST CAMMIN, ABBOT - 25 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 25th of March WELCOME! SAINT CAMMIN, ABBOT  Among the most celebrated saints of Ireland, published by Usher, is placed Saint Cammin [Caimin], who in his youth retired from the noise of the world into the island of Inish-Kealtair, in the lake of Derg-Derch, or Dergid, in the confines of Thomond and Galway.  Here several disciples resorting to him, he built a monastery, which out of veneration for his extraordinary sanctity, was long very famous among the Irish. The church of that place still retains, from him, the name of Tempul-Cammin.  His happy death is placed in the Inis-Fallen annals about the year 653. [Some calendars mention St Caimin on March 24.] Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Psalter of St Caimin PRAYER: May the intercession of the blessed abbot Cammin commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, y...