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St. Colman Mac Lenine
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Saint Colman Mac Lenine, founder and patron of the See of Cloyne, born in Munster, c. 510; died 24 November, 601. 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, notably a metrical panegyric on St. Brendan. Colgan mentions a metrical life of St. Senan by him. His feast is observed on 24 November. Another St. Colman is also venerated on the same day, as recorded by St. Aengus in his “Felire”: —
Mac Lenine the most excellent
With Colman of Duth-chuilleann.
Sources
ARCHDALL, Monasticon Hibernicum, ed. MORAN (1873); COLGAN, Acta Sanct. Hib.; HYDE, Literary History of Ireland (New York, 1901); SMITH, History of Cork; OLDEN, Some Notices of St. Colman of Cloyne (1881); STOKES, Anecdota Oxon. (1890).
Source Record
- Author
- Grattan-Flood, William
- Publication
- The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1908.
- Nihil Obstat
- Nihil Obstat. Remy Lafort, Censor.
- Imprimatur
- Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.