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April 30 · Abbot

St. Forannan of Waulsor

St. Forannan of Waulsor

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Traditional feast

April 30
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Abbot

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 30 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology and Belgian Martyrologies. Authority:— A life based on tradition, and probably on some earlier documents, by Robert, monk of Waulsor, in 103a That it is founded on earlier accounts is scarcely to be doubted, in that it fits in with the history of S. Machallin and S. Cadroe, both Irish abbots at Waulsor.] There is no part at tne river Meuse so full of beauty as at Waulsor; there the limestone rocks rise abruptly in magnificent crags from the river, their ledges in spring gardens of crimson pinks, blue viper-bugloss, and ox-eye daisies. At intervals they fall back, and their woods feather down to the water's edge. Immediately opposite Waulsor opens a glen leading up to precipices, with a rill at the bottom watering soft rich meadows. It is the <r Vallis-decora” of the Irish hermits who settled there in 947. S. Machallin

Feast days

Feast: April 30

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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.