Feast of St Brendan (575), one of the great wandering monks of Ireland. According to legend, he sailed across the Atlantic in a skin-covered boat, attended by birds who joined in reciting the psalms, and discovered marvelous islands, which in one case turned out to be a whale.
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Most of us grow up never knowing anything about our parish patrons. I grew up going to St Alban’s church— never learning that he was a martyr in Roman Britain who was killed after taking the place of a priest fleeing persecution. Why I tell these stories.