Tag Saints of the British Isles

Prayer of St. Brendan

I will show others the care You’ve given me.
I will determine amidst all uncertainty always to trust.
I choose to live beyond regret, and let You recreate my life.

1 February ~ St. Bridget of Kildare

Also known as: Bride; Bride of the Isles; Bridget of Ireland; Bridget; Brigid of Kildare; Brigit; Ffraid; Mary of the Gael.Born in 453 at Faughart, County Louth, Ireland and died on 1 February 523 at Kildare, Ireland of natural causes;…

16 May ~ Brendan the Voyager

Abbot of Clonfert (6th cent.) He was born around 484 at Tralee in Kerry, Ireland. He founded several monasteries in Ireland, of which the chief was Cluain Ferta Brenaind (anglicized as Clonfert) in County Galway. His missionary and pastoral travels…

13 March ~ St. Gerald, Bishop of Mayo

Bishop of Mayo. An English monk, date of birth unknown; died 13 March, 731; followed St. Colman, after the Synod of Whitby (664), to Ireland, and settled in Innisboffin, in 668… Dissensions arose, after a time, between the Irish and…

15 April ~ Padarn of Wales

Paternus of Wales (Padarn of Wales) (5th–6th century), monk and bishop, probably from SE. Wales in birth and education. Padarn is principally famous as the founder of Llanbadarn Fawr (Dyfed) of which he was both abbot and bishop for twenty…

St. Patrick’s Breastplate

I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. I bind this day to me for ever, by power of faith, Christ’s Incarnation; his baptism…

3 February ~ St. Werburga

Also know as Werburgh, Wereburga, Wereburg, Verbourg. Benedictine, patroness of Chester, Abbess of Weedon, Trentham, Hanbury, Minster in Sheppy, and Ely, born in Staffordshire early in the seventh century; died at Trentham, 3 February, 699 or 700… Her mother was…

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