Saint Colman MacDuagh

[plainswolf]

I hope you don't mind me posting this here, I thought you might take great interest of this early Saint Colman MacDuagh (560-632 A.D.). I just finnished reading through his life and it is absolutely FASCINATING!! Reading about his life reminded me abit of reading about the life of Saint Benedict..

http://www.stcolman.com/life_baptism.html

If this was inappropriate of me to post then I apologize. He is an early Church Saint whom I had never heard of before. I must say though I am gaining quite an interest in the early Saints of the Church.

J.M.J.
Mark

[Orthosdoxa]

Looks interesting, Wolf. Thanks. :)

[plainswolf]

Thanks, that's really cool. I'll be sure to read it.

Can I ask, why would you even think posting this would be a problem?

I was just trying to be as respectful as possible.. :wave: that's all. I figured since he was an early Saint that we all might take an interest in him. Lately I am taking quite an interest in the early saints. I LOVED a recent small book I read about the life of Saint Benedict and the miracles surrounding that him.. I supposed that's what struck me about this Saint Colman. Plus I thought perhaps there may be a few Irish in here?;)

J.M.J.
Mark

[Rilian]

That's cool. I love the stories of the Celtic saints.

Here's an icon of him, not a very good picture though. St. Colman (http://stcolmans.orthodoxireland.com/index.html)

[Matrona]

I was just trying to be as respectful as possible.. :wave:

I know :hug: It just upsets me that the general impression of TAW among non-Orthodox CF members is that we are either super-Christians who never do wrong, or that we are so horrible and hateful that we would hiss and spit at someone for bringing up a subject of common interest.

that's all. I figured since he was an early Saint that we all might take an interest in him. Lately I am taking quite an interest in the early saints. I LOVED a recent small book I read about the life of Saint Benedict and the miracles surrounding that him.. I supposed that's what struck me about this Saint Colman. Plus I thought perhaps there may be a few Irish in here?;)

There are... most, if not all RC saints before 1054 are recognized in the Orthodox Church. Likewise the RC recognizes most of our saints, with the obvious exceptions of St. Constantine, St. Photios, etc.

[nicodemus]

You learn something everyday. Never heard of that saint before! Thanks! :)

[gzt]

Thank you, if you ever run into more interesting early western saints, please, share them.

[Photios]

I have been looking for information, outside of the poem, on St. Alfred the Great of England, and I have heard a few things about St. Alban that really interest me.

[nicodemus]

I have been looking for information, outside of the poem, on St. Alfred the Great of England, and I have heard a few things about St. Alban that really interest me.
If you're interested in early western saints , I'd suggest the following books:

Saints of England’s Golden Age by Vladimir Moss (published by the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies)

Moss also has a three book series called The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England published by St. Nectarios Press. (There's a six page life of St. Alfred in Volume 1 of the series.)

I can't find my copy of the book published by the CTOS (my inlaws were moving stuff again!) but it is quite good.

[Mary of Bethany]

Could someone tell me how St. Colman's last name is pronounced? Is it McDuff?

Mary

[Suzannah]

Could someone tell me how St. Colman's last name is pronounced? Is it McDuff?

Mary


Roughly speaking, yes. ^_^ But I am not a Scot and therefore I should refrain from further comment. :P

[Photios]

If you're interested in early western saints , I'd suggest the following books:

Saints of England’s Golden Age by Vladimir Moss (published by the Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies)

Moss also has a three book series called The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England published by St. Nectarios Press. (There's a six page life of St. Alfred in Volume 1 of the series.)

I can't find my copy of the book published by the CTOS (my inlaws were moving stuff again!) but it is quite good.

Thank you! This will really help. The only things I know about St. Alfred are from some brief historical blurbs and The Ballad of the White Horse. These are great, but I want to know more from an Orthodox perspective, and these look to be great sources. Again, thank you!

[Irish Hermit]

This Saint Colman has his Feastday on 29 October and another one on 3 February. A small life is here.

http: //groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/message/1820[/url]

[Moros]

Good book on lives of western orthodox saints: Vita Patrum

[Michael the Iconographer]

That's cool. I love the stories of the Celtic saints.

Here's an icon of him, not a very good picture though. St. Colman (http://stcolmans.orthodoxireland.com/index.html)

That is actually a very nicely done icon of him.

[Irish Hermit]

Here is an icon of Saint Colman of Oughaval on Fr Andrew Phillips' site, with better definition.

(Sorry, this site won't allow me to post the Link. You'll need to go to the orthodoxengland website and find the list of icons in the righthand column.)

But there seems to be some confusion. This thread was about Saint Colman Kilmacduagh and now it is about Saint Colman of Oughaval??!

The confusion is not surprising - there is a Irish joke about the abbot shouting at his monks as they worked by the river: "Colman, get into the water!" and 12 monks jumped in!

[Irish Melkite]

Celtic Saints (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/) is a yahoo e-group from which one can get daily e-mails (or, you can join and just read on-site, if you don't want the e-mails) that summarize the lives of the first millennium Saints of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, England, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man whose feasts occur on that day. The owner of the group is a friend of mine, Hieromonk Ambrois O Maonaigh (a/k/a Father Ambrose), an Irishman who is a Serbian Orthodox monk, serving a ROCOR parish in New Zealand.

Many years,

Neil

[Irish Melkite]

Here is an icon of Saint Colman of Oughaval on Fr Andrew Phillips' site, with better definition.

(Sorry, this site won't allow me to post the Link. You'll need to go to the orthodoxengland website and find the list of icons in the righthand column.)

But there seems to be some confusion. This thread was about Saint Colman Kilmacduagh and now it is about Saint Colman of Oughaval??!

Hermit,

Not sure the blessings I gave you will help - as I think about it, it's number of posts, not blessings, that let's you post links; but, I could be wrong.

Here's the link that you couldn't post - interestingly, it appears to be the same icon posted by someone earlier as Saint Colman MacDuagh.*

Icon of Saint Colman of Oughaval (http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/colman.htm)

Many years,

Neil

*Mystery solved. The RO Church of Saint Colman to which Rilian linked is dedicated to Saint Colman of Oughaval, not to Saint Colman MacDuagh. There are, according to one martyrology, more than 200 Irish Saints named Colman; suppose it's more than unlikely that there are icons written for all of them.