Tim Severin sailed a leather boat across the North Atlantic to prove that Irish monks could have reached North America a thousand years before Columbus.

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By Cynthia Bourgeault My St. Brendan icon is arrived! It made its way across the waters (natch!)—by air (quite unknown to St. Brendan)—and in only three days (as compared to Brendan’s own seven years)—from its iconographer in Australia to the rocky New England shores. Have a look! Thank you, Michael Galovic, peerless iconographer. St. Brendan […]

Today is St. Brendan’s feast day. To the Irish, St. Brendan needs no introduction. For those less fortunate in their birth, let me tell you that he may have been Ireland’s first adventure traveler. Saint Brendan was an Irish holy man who lived from 484 to 577 AD. Little is known about his life, and even his entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia is rather short. What we do know about him mostly comes from a strange tale called “the Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator,” written down in the ninth century and rewritten with various changes in several later manuscripts. It’s an account of a seven-year journey he and his followers took across the Atlantic, where they met ...

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I find this a great prayer for this Lenten season. It is from Brendan the Navigator, the Irish saint who founded Christian communities throughout the British Isles. He was familiar with long journe…

[OWN THIS PRINT] Do you know anything about Saint Brendan? Read up! Fascinating character! I was inspired to draw this by Frederick Buechner’s novel, Brendan. A friend of mine, Kristie Hayes,…

Saint Brendan and the Iceberg Original painting by Lynn Curlee This was reproduced as an illustration for Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration, an award winning children’s book by author or illustrator Lynn Curlee Acrylic on stretched canvas - 30” x 30” x 3/4” The canvas is stretched around the edges and painted so that framing is optional.

“God has appointed four places for you for each season of the year where you shall stay until the seven years of your pilgrimage are over. You shall spend Maundy Thursday with your steward who is...

Parmi ceux là, les Transmusicales. Quarante ans que pour tout mélomane, Rennes est foncièrement rattaché au festival des Transmusicales, véritable institution autant pour les spectateurs que …

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This isn’t just going to be a “hey, look at these cool pictures of Namibia” post. This is in depth, descriptive, and hopefully answer some of your questions as to how to get to these places, and the best times to go. If you have any specific questions about photography in Namibia that aren’t answered in the below post, drop a comment below and I can address it and potentially update the post. Moreover, if you have any other locations […]

St. Brendan the Navigator of Clonfert. Naomh Breandan in Irish Gaelic, lit. Holy Brendan (Breannain in Old Irish). Lived c. 480’s – 570’s. One of the twelve Apostles of Ireland. H…

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Saint Brendan (also referred to by his various epithets ‘the Navigator’, ‘the Voyager’, ‘the Anchorite’, and ‘the Bold’) was an Irish saint who lived between the 5th and 6th centuries AD known for his legendary voyage in search of the ‘Island of Paradise’ or the ‘Land of Promise of the Saints’.

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