ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 24th of November WELCOME! SAINT COLMAN MAC LENINE, BISHOP St Colman and the ducks ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Colman Mac Lenine, founder and patron of the See of Cloyne, born in Munster, around A D. 510; he died November 24, 601. HE WAS ENDOWED WITH EXTRAORDINARY POETIC POWERS He was endowed with extraordinary poetic powers, being styled by his contemporaries "Royal Bard of Munster". The Ardrigh of Ireland gave him Cloyne, in the present County Cork, for his cathedral abbey, in 560, and he laboured for more than forty years in his extensive diocese. SEVERAL OF HIS IRISH POEMS ARE STILL EXTANT Several of his Irish poems are still extant, notably a metrical panegyric on St Brendan. Colgan mentions a metrical life of St Senan by him. His feast is observed on November 24. Another St Colman is also venerated on the same day, as recorded by Saint Aengus in his "Felire": Mac Lenine the most excellent Wi...