A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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November 28
November 27
Bishop
Secundinus, called Seachnal by the Irish, was bishop of Dunshaughlin in Meath. Butler describes him as St Patrick's nephew and disciple.
Butler gives his death as 447; Baring-Gould, the text on this page, gives 448. The sources differ.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on November 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: November 27
Traditional: November 28
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Secundinus in Meath's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Seachnall's church.JPG · Captain Fearnought at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Captain Fearnought at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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.
