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	Brendan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Brendan is chiefly renowned for this legendary quest.
		It is not impossible that Brendan may have encountered North America on his journey, in which case Brendan was one of the first European visitors to the New World.
		Christopher Columbus relied on the legends told of St Brendan as part of his argument that it was indeed possible to travel to Asia by crossing the Atlantic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Brendan (809 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Brendan
		Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, known also as Brendan the Voyager, was born in Ciarraighe Luachra, near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, in 484; he died at Enachduin, now Annaghdown, in 577.
		Brendan belongs to that glorious period in the history of Ireland when the island in the first glow of its conversion to Christianity sent forth its earliest messengers of the Faith to the continent and to the regions of the sea.
		Brendan is said to have sailed in search of a fabled Paradise with a company of monks, the number of which is variously stated as from 18 to 150.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02758c.htm (1035 words)

	St. Brendan
		Brendan (Brendan the Voyager, Brendan the Navigator) belongs to that glorious period in the history of Ireland when the island, in the first glow of conversion to Christianity, sent forth its earliest messengers of the Faith to the continent and to the regions of the sea.
		Brendan set forth with a company of monks, the number of which is variously stated as from 18 to 150, and after a long voyage of seven years they reached the "Terra Repromissionis", the Paradise or Promised Land, a most beautiful island with luxuriant vegetation.
		Brendan died at Enach Duin, now called Annaghdown, in 577, on a visit to his sister while she was abbess of a convent there.
	www.allsaintsbrookline.org /celtic/saints/brendan.html (992 words)

	Brendan - Monastic Ireland
		As an infant, Brendan is fostered by Saint Ita, and instructed in the scriptures by Bishop Erc.
		Brendan is ordained a priest by Erc in 512.
		Brendan walks by himself to the mountain, which comes to be known as Cnoc Bhréanainn, from which he looks westwards to ocean for the place he longs to find.
	www.catholicireland.net /monasticireland/storiesofsaints/brendan.htm (1060 words)

	Triskelle - Irish history: Saint Brendan
		Saint Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, also known as Brendan the Voyager or Brendan the Navigator, was born in 484 near Tralee in County Kerry.
		Severin also found a plausible reason for the long time Saint Brendan needed for his roundtrip: on the way westwards he could take advantage of the domination winds and favourable currents, but it was almost impossible to sail against the currents and winds with the curragh.
		A second theory is that Saint Brendan extensively studied the astrological perfect aligned megalithic monuments, such as stone circles and tombs, and created some sort of a navigational aid, coincidentally shaped as a Celtic Cross.
	www.vincentpeters.nl /triskelle/history/saintbrendan.php?index=060.040.025 (991 words)

	St. Brendan Online / Parish Staff
		In 484 A.D. Brendan was born in the small seaside village of Fenuit of western Ireland near the city of Tralee.
		When Brendan was 20 years old, Bishop Erc felt that he had taught Brendan everything he could, so the Bishop gave Brendan permission to visit the holy monks of Ireland and learn about their monastic “Rule.” Brendan’s walking journey took about a year during which time he learned about the people, the country and nature.
		Brendan died in 578 at the age of 94.
	www.rc.net /cleveland/st_brendan/brenbio.html (675 words)

	Lives of the Saints, May 16, St. Simon Stock, St. John Nepomucene, Saint Brendan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Saint Simon Stock was born of one of the most illustrious Christian families of England, at the castle of Harford in 1164.
		Saint John taught her to bear her cross with joy; but her piety only incensed the emperor, and he tried to extort an account of her confessions from the Saint.
		When Saint Brendan’s narration of the trip was transcribed and read after his return, crowds of pilgrims and students came to Ardfert, and it was necessary to found many religious houses at various sites for those who wished to live under the Saint’s direction.
	www.magnificat.ca /cal/engl/05-16.htm (1338 words)

	St Cuthbert's Website : Celtic Way - St Brendan
		The date of Brendan's birth is somewhere between 460 and 486 A.D. He was born into a noble family, near Tralee in County Kerry, an event reputedly marked by angels hovering in a bright light over the house.
		Brendan seems to have returned to Ireland a chastened, even angry man, where it took some years for him to come to terms with his "shadow" side, and there are stories of him "taking it out" on others.
		Brendan founded monasteries, in Britain and Gaul, and during visits home and away is said he met both St Brigid and St Columba, who perhaps acted as spiritual guides.
	www.st-cuthberts.net /brendan.htm (758 words)

	A HYMN TO SAINT BRENDAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Saint Brendan was chanting the office for the Feast of Saint Paul the Apostle, when his brethren asked him to do so quietly for fear of disturbing the sea monsters.
		Then said Saint Brendan to the brethren, 'Do ye refresh your bodies, for this day have your souls been filled with the heavenly bread.' And when the Feast was ended, the brethren began to sing the office; and thereafter they rested in quiet until the third watch of the night.
		Brendan is the patron of seafarers and travellers, and is venerated in Ireland (Roeder).
	www.lyon.edu /webdata/users/jchiaromonte/saint_brendan.htm (1918 words)

	Our History
		The Parish of Saint Brendan was canonically established on June 16, 1956.
		The people of Saint Brendan purchased a new set of carving tools and in 1961 and 1962 he worked on the Stations of the Cross that are in the present church.
		Saint Brendan Parish is certainly an important part of the growth of Catholicism in the Diocese of Columbus.
	www.stbrendans.net /history.htm (840 words)

	Saint Brendan, Patron of our Parish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brendan was born about 494 AD in Annagh near Tralee, of the line of Fergus MacRoy, an Irish King of the First Century.
		As Severin wrote in his book about the voyage, the St. Brendan legend is "more than a splendid medieval romance, it is really a story hung upon a framework of facts and observations which mingles geography and literature, and the challenge is to separate one from the other.
		Brendan was buried at Clonfert, Galway, on the banks of the River Shannon.
	www.stbrendancatholic.org /saint.htm (827 words)

	Saint Brendan
		Saint Brendan was a real person who was born in Ireland around the year 489.
		On maps, Saint Brendan's Island first appeared on the Ebstorf map of 1235, in a location where the Canary Islands are.
		As this region became explored and mapped, Saint Brendan's Island seemed to move northward, to regions that were not as well known.
	www.eaudrey.com /myth/Places/saint_brendan.htm (261 words)

	Saints of May 16
		Saint Fidolus, son of a Roman official in Auvergne, France, was taken prisoner by the soldiers of King Clovis and sold into slavery.
		Saint John is portrayed in art as an Augustinian canon with a fur almuce and a bridge near him.
		Saint Maxima is widely venerated in Fréjus, France, where several villages are named in her honor; however, nothing definitive is known about her life (Benedictines).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0516.htm (3675 words)

	Community Gathers to Remember Brendan Mooney \| Saint Louis University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brendan, 20, was a native of Austin, Texas.
		Brendan was a junior business major in the Saint Louis University John Cook School of Business.
		Brendan is survived by his father, Thomas J. Mooney, a 1977 graduate of the Saint Louis University College of Arts and Sciences; his mother, Mary; brother Thomas, a 2001 graduate of the SLU John Cook School of Business; sister, Meaghan; brother, Ian; and brother, Sean.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/homepage/704 (202 words)

	Irish monks and the Voyage of St. Brendan: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Brendan the Voyager (Dublin: Brown and Nolan, 1893) frontispiece.
		In 1976 and 1977, the adventurer Tim Severin demonstrated that such a voyage was possible by building the Brendan, a replica of a curragh, and sailing it to Newfoundland.
		If Irish monks did voyage across the Atlantic and back, then their achievement was historically very significant, for Ireland was the target of Viking raids before the end of the eighth century, and it is perhaps through the Irish that the Norsemen learned about other lands further to the west.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /exploration/brendan.html (338 words)

	Saint Brendan, Irish Saint
		Among the Irish saints Brendan visited were Finnian of Clonard, Enda of Aran and Jarlath of Tuam.
		Brendan is associated with a number of monastic sites close to the River Shannon and around the west coast of Ireland.
		Brendan's reputation as a traveller rests, however, on the Navigatio Sancti Brendani, an account written by an Irish monk in the ninth or tenth century.
	www.irelandseye.com /irish/people/saints/brendan.shtm (611 words)

	brendan2
		Saint Brendan and his hardy mariners may very likely have made it to Iceland, to Newfoundland, and the New World.
		Saint Brendan died in his 90's in his homeland, at the convent of his sister Briga at Enachduin and is said to be buried facing the door to the Cathedral in Clonfert.
		Saint Brendan's feast day is May 16th and he is the patron saint of sailors, travelers and whales.
	www.ccbrundage.net /saints/brendan.htm (1074 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of November 29
		Saint Radbod's maternal great-grandfather (also named Radbod) was the last pagan king of Friesland, who said that he preferred to be in hell with his ancestors than in heaven without them.
		Today the church of Saint Sernin in Toulouse is the largest Romanesque church in France, and the saint's body lies in the choir, in a great tomb constructed in 1746 and resting on bulls of bronze (Attwater 2, Benedictines, Bentley, Coulson, Encyclopedia).
		Saint Sernin is usually portrayed as a bishop dragged by a bull or with a bull at his feet (Roeder).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1129.htm (1720 words)

	Saint Nate's Blog: The Strange Voyage of St. Brendan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He isn't one of the most famous saints - heck, he isn't even the most famous Irish saint, even though unlike the island's patron St. Brendan actually was born in Ireland.
		Like Prester John's kingdom, St. Brendan's discovered land always seemed to shift from one corner of a map to the opposite depending in the cartographer, yet in both cases all it took was a document of questionable authenticity to inspire the imaginations of explorers.
		Nevertheless, it's an interesting story, and since saints are often remembered more for the stories they inspire than their actual lives the veracity won't matter to the faithful.
	stnate.blogspot.com /2005/05/strange-voyage-of-st-brendan.html (744 words)

	In Saint Brendan
		In it, Brendan tells of encountering “mountains in the sea spouting fire,” floating crystal palaces, monsters with catlike heads and horns growing from their mouths, and “little furry men.” Before dismissing Brendan’s story as a lot of blarney, think upon Iceland’s volcanoes, upon icebergs, upon walruses, upon Eskimos.
		The result was a curious disembodied feeling, a sense of being a part of the sea’s motion, molding to the waves.” In other words, Severin had succeeded in building a craft that was both unwieldy in the olden way and supple because of its careful construction.
		For a concluding note on the magic and wonder of the Saint Brendan story, let us turn to an objective observer—to one who is even, one might say, an amiable skeptic.
	www.ics.villanova.edu /in_saint_brendan.htm (1478 words)

	An Bóthar Pub - Saint Brendan 'the Navigator'
		Legend states that Saint Brendan set sail from Cuas on a voyage across the North Atlantic.
		Brendan was born in the late 480's AD and educated at a missionary post at Ardfert in North Kerry before being ordained in 512 AD.
		In 1977, to test the feasibility of the voyage and the technology available to Brendan and other seafarers during the 6th century AD, a crew led by explorer Tim Severin set sail from Cuas harbour in a reconstruction of Saint Brendan's boat and successfully reached Newfoundland 13 months later.
	homepage.eircom.net /~botharpub/activities/brendan.html (536 words)

	Clonfert - Monastic Settlement in Galway Founded by Brendan the Navigator.
		Saint Brendan was born in Ciarraighe Luachra, near Tralee in County Kerry in the Year of Our Lord 484.
		Brendan was a keen sailor as well as an avid missionary and his sea voyages brought him to Wales, Iona in Scotland as well as to France and other parts of mainland Europe.
		Brendan and his group of monks are reputed to have reached the coast of America on a 7-year voyage.
	www.moytura.com /clonfert2.htm (2532 words)

	SAINT BRENDAN'S PRAYER RETREAT COMMUNITY - home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Saint Brendan's Prayer Retreat Community is a new monastic and retreat mission of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.
		Situated on a small, Revolutionary War-era farm in Dennysville, Maine, Saint Brendan's is being raised up and consecrated to the Lord as a place of prayer, retreat, solitude, and spiritual renewal.
		The farmhouse at Saint Brendan's will serve as the community's Priory House and will contain guest rooms and the temporary location of Holy Trinity Chapel for those on retreat. In the near future a new chapel and hermitage cabins will also be added to the property.
	www.saintbrendans-cec.org (148 words)

	The Voyage of Brendan the Navigator
		The account of Brendan’s voyage contained a detailed description of the construction of his boat which was not unlike the currachs still made in County Kerry today.
		Examination of nautical charts led Severin to believe that Brendan’s route would be governed by the prevailing winds that would take him across the northernmost part of the Atlantic.
		Brendan called this island The Paradise of Birds.” He referred to the larger island as the “Island of Sheep.” The word Faroe itself means Island of Sheep.
	www.castletown.com /brendan.htm (1039 words)

	SAINT BRENDAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A man named Tim Severin crossed the Atlantic in a curragh similar to Brendan's, to prove that the journey was possible.Yet nobody has come up with a definite answer as to whether St. Brendan reached America.
		Brendan founded the famous monastery at Clonfert, which at one time had 1000 people attached to it.
		In all the details of the life of this great saint, there is no reference to his having ever visited Coolock.
	www.iol.ie /~mcoolock/mercyhp/brendan.htm (370 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Brendan the Navigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Educated by Saint Ita of Killeedy and Saint Erc of Kerry.
		Legend says that this community had at least three thousand monks, and that their rule was dictated to Brendan by an angel.
		Brendan and his brothers figure in Brendan's Voyage, a tale of monks travelling the high seas of the Atlantic, evangelizing to the islands, possibly reaching the Americas in the 6th century.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb21.htm (185 words)

	Saint Brendan's Sixth Form College Bristol Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		St Brendan's is a Catholic Sixth Form College located on the A4 between Bristol and Bath.
		We are a multi-cultural, multi-racial community with staff and students from a variety of backgrounds and religious traditions.
		St Brendan's is the only sixth form college in the Bristol and Bath area.
	www.stbrn.ac.uk (243 words)

	The Voyage of Saint Brendan
		Brendan, like St. Patrick was metamorphosed into a Roman Catholic missionary after his death.
		Brendan the Navigator (or Brandan or Brenainn), was born in what is now County Kerry, Ireland, about 486 A.D. He was a great traveler and founder of churches and monasteries, including his most famous one at Clonfert.
		Brendan was over 80 years old at the start of his voyage.
	www.reformation.org /saint-brendan.html (822 words)

	Our Patron Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brendan, priest and monk, was born at Tralee, County Kerry, around 460.
		Consequently he has become known as the patron saint of boatmen, mariners, sailors, travellers, watermen, and whales.
		There is no locateable English text of the Navigatio on the Internet; there is one in German, Die Reise des Heiligen Brendan, by David Stifter, of the University of Vienna.
	www.sjaoh.com /interest.htm (107 words)

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