12 Irish Saints and the Art They Left Behind
Ireland is called the land of saints and scholars, and it earned the title early. By the time the first…
Saint Patrick: The Slave Who Came Back
Saint Patrick was not Irish, and he did not choose Ireland. He was a Roman Briton, the son of a…
Saint Brigid of Kildare: The Saint, the Goddess and the Cross
Saint Brigid of Kildare is the only woman among the three patron saints of Ireland, and the only one about…
Saint Columba: The Book, the Battle and the Monster
Saint Columba lost his country over a book. He copied a psalter that belonged to somebody else, refused to hand…
Saint Brendan the Navigator: Did an Irish Monk Reach America?
In the winter of 1976 a leather boat left Kerry, and eleven months later it reached Newfoundland. It had an…
Saint Columbanus: The Irish Monk Who Rebuilt Europe
Saint Columbanus was about fifty years old, and the senior teacher of the most important monastery in Ireland, when he…