St. Brendan's Boat Bronze Plaque
This bronze St. Brendan's Boat plaque is based on a carving on the early Christian Kilnaruane pillar stone, which stands in a field overlooking Bantry Bay. The scene depicts a curragh with helmsman and four oarsmen and may celebrate St Brendan's discovery of America in the 6th century, also said to represent ...
St. Brendan the Navigator Symbol of Faith
St. Brendan sailed from the West of Ireland in a large curragh in the 6th century with a group of monks, possibly discovering America. The scene is also said to represent everyman's voyage through life or the church ferrying it's flock to heaven through seas of adversity. Made of a bronze finish that ...
Twenty Tales of Irish Saints ... tradition. Patrick, Brigid, Columcille — “the three brightest jewels in Ireland's crown” — are here, and Canice, Finbarr, Cormac, Finnian, Brendan, Gall, and others. Here's the moving story of what happened when Patrick baptized the daughters of the King of Connaught and the shocking tale ...