ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 26th of December WELCOME! SAINT JARLATH, FIRST BISHOP OF TUAM IN IRELAND, CONFESSOR ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Jarlath flourished about the beginning of the sixth century, and is not to be confounded with Jarlath, archbishop of Armagh, who was a disciple of St Patrick, an Ulsterman, and the son of Trien. Our St Jarlath was a Connaughtman, of the family of Cormac, and was educated from his youth under Binen or Benignus, archbishop of Armagh, by whom he was promoted to holy orders. Leaving this great master, he retired to Cluainfois, a solitary place in Conmacne, now in the county of Galway, near Tuam. HE FOUNDED A MONASTERY Here he founded a monastery which retained this name, and is now a chapel within the parish of Tuam. In this monastery St Jarlath opened a famous school, to which numbers flocked for education in piety and learning, among whom the great St Brendan, abbot of Clonfert, and St Co...