A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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Bishop
Colman was descended from the sept of the Arads and, according to Usher, was born in 516. He was the first abbot of Muckmore in County Antrim and then the first bishop of Dromore. Jocelin says St. Patrick foretold his virtue, and his legend credits him with many miracles and conversions. He was also called Mocholmoc.
Butler says he died about 610, on 7 June. Baring-Gould places him in the seventh century.
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Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on June 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: June 7
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Colman of Dromore's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.