Saint Ruadhan

Also known as: Rodan
Ruadan
Memorial: 15 April
Profile: Related to the Munster royal family. Studied under Saint Finian of Clonard. Founded the monastery of Lorrha c.545, and served as its first abbot. His brother monks produced the Stowe Missal, and his abbot's bell is preserved in the British Museum His embassy to King Dermot of Tara in 556 is recounted in the romance the Cursing of Tara where he is supposed to have cursed Dermot for violating the sanctuary of the Lorrha monastery in order to capture the king of Connaught. Considered a confessor of the faith and one of the twelve Apostles of Erin.
Born: Leinster, Ireland
Died: 5 April 584 in the monastery of Lorrha, County Tipperary, Ireland of natural causes
his hand was preserved in a silver shrine in Lorrha, but destroyed during the Reformation
Name Meaning: red-haired (irish)
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by W H Grattan-Flood
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Saint Ruadhan’s Church, Lorrha
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