The village church of Derrybrien is dedicated to a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary known as what?
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Derrybrien Derrybrien is a tiny village in County Galway, Ireland. It lies along the R353 road in the Slieve Aughty Mountains. The village church is dedicated to Saint Patrick and is part of the Roman Catholic Parish of Ballinakill and Derrybrien. A 60MW wind farm with 70 turbines is located on a hill nearby.
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Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (Latin: "Patricius" ; Irish: "Pádraig" ] ; Welsh: "Padrig" ) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba. He is also venerated in the Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as equal-to-the-apostles and "Enlightener of Ireland".
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Irenaeus Irenaeus ( ; Greek: Εἰρηναῖος ) (early 2nd century – died c. AD 202), also referred to as Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire (now Lyon, France). He was an early Church Father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. A resident of Smyrna, he heard the preaching of St. Polycarp, a disciple of St. John the Evangelist.
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Auxilius of Ireland Saint Auxilius, or "Usaille", (d. ca. 459) was an early Christian missionary of Ireland who is associated with Saint Patrick, Saint Seachnaill (Secundinus), and Saint Iserninus in establishing Christianity in the south of that island.
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Aedan McGrath Rev. Aedan McGrath, SSC, born William Aedan McGrath, was an Irish Columban missionary priest in China. McGrath was active with the Legion of Mary and became notable for his work in China as a missionary that eventually led to his imprisonment by the People's Republic of China. After leaving China, McGrath continued his work with the Legion of Mary and with missionary activity in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Philippines.
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Oran of Iona Oran or Odran (Gaelic "Oran"/"Odran"/"Odhrán", the "dh" being silent; Latin "Otteranus", hence sometimes Otteran), by tradition a descendant of Conall Gulbán, was a companion of Saint Columba in Iona, and the first Christian to be buried on that island. St. Odhrán's feast day is on the 27th of October.
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Francis Maginn Francis Maginn (1861–1918) was a Church of Ireland missionary who worked to improve living standards for the deaf community by promoting sign language and was one of the co-founders of the British Deaf Association.
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Daig Saint Daig (d. 588?) was an Irish Christian bishop and confessor of Inis-Caoin-Deagha (now Inniskeen, County Monaghan), who lived towards the end of the 6th century. His name in Gaelic means "A great flame" and he was probably named after his mother Deighe.
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Vortigern Vortigern ( ; Old Welsh "Guorthigirn", "Guorthegern"; Welsh: "Gwrtheyrn" ; Old English: "Wyrtgeorn" ; Old Breton "Gurdiern", "Gurthiern"; ; Latin: "Vortigernus, Vertigernus, Uuertigernus, etc" ), also spelled Vortiger and Vortigen, was possibly a 5th-century warlord in Britain, known perhaps as a king of the Britons. His existence is contested, and information about him is obscure.
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Sigeberht the Good Sigeberht II, nicknamed the Good ("Bonus") or the Blessed ("Sanctus"), was King of the East Saxons (r. "c". 653 to ? 660 x 661), in succession to his relative Sigeberht I the Little. Although a bishopric in Essex had been created under Mellitus, the kingdom had lapsed to paganism and it was in Sigeberht's reign that a systematic (re-)conversion of the East Anglians took root. Bede's "Historia Ecclesiastica", Book III, chapter 22, is virtually the sole source for his career.
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Luchtigern Luchtigern (Latin: "Luctigernus" ) was an early Christian leader who was active in Ireland in the 6th century, and has been recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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John Gregg (bishop of Cork) He published "A missionary visit to Achill and Erris..." in 1850.
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Adomnán Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona ( , Latin: "Adamnanus, Adomnanus" ; 624  – 704), also known as Eunan (from ga
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Declan (given name) Declan is an ancient Irish given name anglicized form of an Irish Gaelic saint's name Declán, also Deaglán or Déaglán, or, in colloquial terms, Det, normally all capitalised when written. St. Declan founded a monastery in Ireland in the 5th century, and the St. Declan's stone has been credited as the site of many miracles. The name is believed to mean "man of prayer" or "full of goodness".
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Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society) Henry Venn (10 February 1796 – 13 January 1873), was an Anglican clergyman who is recognised as one of the foremost Protestant missions strategists of the nineteenth century. He was an outstanding administrator who served as honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873. He was also a campaigner, in the tradition of the Clapham Sect, who frequently lobbied the British Parliament on social issues of his day, notably on ensuring the total eradication of the Atlantic slave trade by retaining the West African Squadron of the Royal Navy. He expounded the basic principles of indigenous Christian missions: these were much later made widespread by the Lausanne Congress of 1974.
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Deruvian Deruvian (Medieval Latin: "Deruvianus" ), also known by several other names including Damian, was a possibly legendary 2nd-century bishop and saint, said to have been sent by the pope to answer King Lucius's request for baptism and conversion to Christianity. Together with his companion St Fagan, he was sometimes reckoned as the apostle of Britain. King Lucius's letter (in most accounts, to Pope Eleutherius) may represent earlier traditions but does not appear in surviving sources before the 6th century; the names of the bishops sent to him does not appear in sources older than the early 12th century, when their story was used to support the independence of the bishops of St Davids in Wales and the antiquity of the Glastonbury Abbey in England. The story became widely known following its appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical "History of the Kings of Britain". This was influential for centuries and its account of SS Fagan and Deruvian was used during the English Reformation to support the claims of both the Catholics and Protestants. Geoffrey's account is now considered wholly implausible, but Christianity was well-established in Roman Britain by the third century. Some scholars therefore argue the stories preserve a more modest account of the conversion of a Romano-British chieftain, possibly by Roman emissaries by these names.
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Irish Catholic Martyrs Irish Catholic Martyrs were dozens of people who have been sanctified in varying degrees for dying for their Roman Catholic faith between 1537 and 1714 in Ireland. The canonisation of Oliver Plunkett in 1975 brought an awareness of the other men and women who died for the Catholic faith in the 16th and 17th centuries. On 22 September 1992 Pope John Paul II proclaimed a representative group from Ireland as martyrs and beatified them. "Martyr" was originally a Greek word meaning “witness”. In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter, speaking to those in Jerusalem at Pentecost, claimed he and all the apostles were “martyrs”, that is, witnesses, in this case to Jesus's resurrection. Later the word came to mean a person who followed the example of Christ and gave up their lives rather than deny their faith.
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Carantoc Saint Carantoc (Welsh: "Carannog" ; Irish: "Cairnech" ; Breton: "Karanteg" ; Latin: "Carantocus" ), also anglicized as Carantock and by other spellings, was a 6th-century abbot, confessor, and saint in Wales and the West Country. He is credited with founding Llangrannog, Ceredigion, Wales and St Carantoc's Church, Crantock. His name is listed amongst the Cornish Saints. Carantoc's is one of five insular saints' lives and two Breton ones that mention Arthur in contexts that may be independent of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia Regum Britanniae".
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Willehad Willehad or Willihad (Latin: "Willehadus/Willihadus" ); 745 AD 8 November 789 AD) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of Bremen from 787 AD.
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Erc of Slane Erc mac Dega (Latin: Ercus; Cornish: Erth), also known incorrectly as Herygh, was an Irish saint who was active in Cornwall. Tradition ascribes the foundation of the original monastery on the Hill of Slane to him.
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Brendan of Birr Saint Brendan of Birr (died c. 572) was one of the early Irish monastic saints. He was a monk and later an abbot, of the 6th century. He is known as "St Brendan the Elder" to distinguish him from his contemporary and friend St Brendan the Navigator of Clonfert. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, a friend and disciple of Saint Columba.
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Caratacus Caratacus (Brythonic "*Caratācos", Middle Welsh "Caratawc"; Welsh "Caradog"; Breton "Karadeg"; Greek "Καράτακος"; variants Latin "Caractacus", Greek "Καρτάκης") was a first-century British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest.