Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.
February 13
February 13
Confessor
Modomnoc, or Dominick, is said to have come of the O'Neils and to have studied under St. David in Wales.
After returning home he served God at Tiprat Fachna in western Ossory, and is said to have been made a bishop about the middle of the sixth century. Butler and Baring-Gould both place him in the sixth century.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 116 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
This saint, who is greatly reverenced in Ossory, was a pupil of S. David in Wales, but a native of Ireland, a member of the princely house of the Nialls, son of Saran, and fourth in descent from Eugene, one of the sons of Neill Neigilliach.
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Learn from the kind of life it was. Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.
This saint, who is greatly reverenced in Ossory, was a pupil of S. David in Wales, but a native of Ireland, a member of the princely house of the Nialls, son of Saran, and fourth in descent from Eugene, one of the sons of Neill Neigilliach. After having spent some time in Wales in the little monastery cultivating flowers and vegetables and bees, he returned to his native island. And as he mounted the ship, his bees swarmed, and settled on the boat. So Modomnoc took the swarm with him to the Emerald Isle. After his return home he served God at Tiprat Fachtua, in the west of Ossory, near the Suir, now Tibrach, in Kilkenny.
Feast: February 13
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Modomnoc'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), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
