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Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

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July 6 · Virgin, Abbess

St. Monynna

St. Monynna

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Traditional feast

July 6
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin
Abbess

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 women could live the Gospel together.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 6 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Irish Martyrulogies on July 5th. Authority An ancient Irish life. But this life is not altogether trustworthy, for it confounds S. Monynna with S. Modwenna of Scotland.] S. Monynna, or Darerca, is said to have received the veil from the hands of S. Patrick, near the pool of Bruigis. She proceeded to associate others with herself, eight virgins, and a widow with her little boy, named Luger, who afterwards became a bishop. They built a church at Roskerry, near Carlingford. Then she removed with her nuns to S. Ibar (d. 500), in the western isles of Ireland, and remained for some time.under his direction, first there, and afterwards in an island in the south, called Little Ireland (Beg-Erin), in Wexford harbour. She made the acquaintance of, and often visited, S. Bridget, and is said to have established herself at a distance of four days’ journey from that holy woman. She next retired into a cell where she could not see the face of a man, only going out at night. Her church is now called Killevy, near Newry.

Feast days

Feast: July 6

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Monynna's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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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.