Saints Feast Day Calendar Saints Feast Day Articles
Articles will be posted here with basic information about the saints on the day of their feast.
Coming soon, there will be a Roman Catholic liturgical calendar with information on the Irish saints highlighted. It will be an interactive calendar and map.
Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne August 31st
An irish monk known as the Apostle to North Umbria. He had studied under St. Senan, at Iniscathay (Scattery Island). He resigned his original placement and became a monk at Iona about 630. He was selected in 635 as first Bishop of Lindisfarne. Aidan passed into Eternal Life August 31, 651.
St. Fiachra August 30th
St. Fiachra was born in Ireland in the 7th century. After years of living in a hermitage in County Kilkenny he travelled to France to avoid the attention he received in ireland and live as a hermit. It is in France that Fiachra built a shrine to the Blessed Mother and a garden to grow herbs for healing. There are many recorded healings by Fiachra's touch. He is the patron saint of gardeners and cab drivers.
St. Carthach The Younger May 15th
Saint Carthach was an Irish Bishop and hermit and is also known as Carhage and Mochuda. After living as a swineherd he was ordained and became a hermit about 590 in Kiltulagh. Carthach eventually became one of the many saints and students in Bangor under St. Comgall. He founded the monastery in Raithean in County Offaly, was its first abbot. In 635 with 800 brother monks he established a monastery which eventually became the famous school of Lismore.
Saint Comgall May 10th
Saint Comgall was a sixth century founder and Abbot of an Irish monastery in Bangor, County Down. St. Comgall died in 601.
Blessed Edmund Rice May 5th
Edmund Rice was born in Callan, County Kilkenny. He became a successful business man in Waterford supplying shops at the port. He married in 1785 and had one daughter but shortly after his marriage and daughter's birth, in 1789 his wife passed away. After seeing first hand the poor educatin of the boys in Waterford Edmund Rice took up the education of the youth. in 1802 the foundation was laid fom which sprung the chritian Brothers and Presentation Brothers. Edmund Rice died in 1844.
May 4th Saint Conleth
Saint Conleth was a bishop in 5th/ 6th century Ireland and was buried in 519. He is known to have been and hermit, metal worker and close friend of Bridgit of Kildare. St. Conleth eventually became the first Bishop of Kildare.
St. Macartan March 24th
Saint Enda March 21st
Saint Enda was a 6th century monk and is considered to be one of the Fathers of monasticism in ireland. He was ordained in Rome and died c. 530.
Saint Patrick March 17th
St. Patrick is the Apostle of Ireland. He was born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387. Patrick was taken into slavery in ireland at a young age, escaped 6 years later, was ordained a priest and bishop and sent to Ireland to bring the Gospel. He converted all of Ireland and died in 461 at Saul.
St. Ciarán of Saigir March 5th
St. Ciarán is known as the “first born of the saints of Ireland.” He was a native of Ossory born before the time of Patrick. Ciarán traveled to Tours and Rome to learn about Christianity. It is held that he was baptized there. When he returned to Ireland he he built himself a little cell in Ossory and lived there as a hermit for a few years before forming a monastery at the site. He was later ordained a bishop.