He is not to be confounded with Cummian, the author of the Paschal Epistle, as is commonly done.
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He is not to be confounded with Cummian, the author of the Paschal Epistle, as is commonly done. The latter Cummian was sumamed Fada or the Long; he died in a.d. 662, and is commemorated on November 12.
Keep their day. Remember them on October 6 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
He is not to be confounded with Cummian, the author of the Paschal Epistle, as is commonly done. The latter Cummian was sumamed Fada or the Long; he died in a.d. 662, and is commemorated on November 12.
Feast: October 6
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Cumine'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.
