Saint Colman of Cloyne

Also known as

• Colman MacLenini
• Colman Mac Lenine
• Colman MacLenine

Memorial

• 24 November

Profile

Son of Lenin. Poet. Royal bard, poet, musician, court historian, and genealogist at Cashel, Ireland. Adult convert at age fifty, being baptized by Saint Brendan the Navigator; he had become involved with Brendan and Christianity while helping recover the stolen shrine of Saint Ailbhe from a lake. Priest. Evangelist in Limerick and Cork. Teacher of Saint Columba. Bishop of Cloyne, county Cork, Ireland.

Born

• 530 in Munster, Ireland

Died

• c.600 of natural causes

Canonized

• 1903 (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• diocese of Cloyne, Ireland

Additional Information

• Battersby’s Registry for the Whole World
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia, by W H Grattan-Flood
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Colman of Cloyne”. Saints.SQPN.com. 5 December 2009. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-colman-of-cloyne/>