A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 64 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Domnan, like many other Irish abbots, took boat with fifty-two disciples, and sailed away in quest of some lone isle where they might be with God in solitude. Having first visited S. Columba at Iona, they went North, and settled in the island of Ewe, in Loch Ewe on the Western Coast of Ross-shire, 8 where they were attacked and butchered by pirates.
Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
S. Domnan, like many other Irish abbots, took boat with fifty-two disciples, and sailed away in quest of some lone isle where they might be with God in solitude. Having first visited S. Columba [Irish abbot of Iona (d. 597), apostle of Scotland] at Iona, they went North, and settled in the island of Ewe, in Loch Ewe on the Western Coast of Ross-shire, 8 where they were attacked and butchered by pirates.
Feast: April 17
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Domnan and Companions'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.
