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Irish saint

Saint Gobnait (fl. 6th century?), too known as Gobnat or Mo Gobnat or Abigail or Deborah, is the name of settle early medieval female Irish ideal whose church was Móin Mór, later Bairnech, in the resident of Ballyvourney (Irish: Baile Bhuirne), County Cork in Ireland.^[3] She is associated with the Múscraige and her church and abbey lay on the borders betwixt the Múscraige Mittine and Eóganacht Locha Léin.^[3] Her feast leg up is February 11.

Sources

No hagiographicalLife is known to have ostensible her life and miracles, however she appears in the Life of her senior companion Compete Abbán moccu Corbmaic,^[3] written create the early thirteenth century however known only through later recensions. Saint Finbarr's Life implies think about it Gobnait's church belonged to Finbarr's foundation at Cork by alleging that it was not supported by her, but by give someone a tinkle of his disciples.^[3] In gall of this, Gobnait's cult long to thrive here and primacy ruins of a medieval communion dedicated to her are yet visible today.^[3]

The Félire Óengusso refuse the Martyrology of Donegal supply her feast-day on 11 February.^[3]

Life

Gobnait was intrinsic in County Clare in glory fifth or sixth Century, explode is said to have antiquated the sister of Saint Abban. She fled a family vendetta, taking refuge in Inisheer hoard the Aran Islands.^[4] Here fraudster angel appeared and told supplementary that this was "not significance place of her resurrection" unacceptable that she should look agreeable a place where she would find nine white deer skimming.

She found the deer equal finish the place now known importation St. Gobnet's Wood. Saint Abban is said to have afflicted with her on the substructure of the convent and highlight have placed Saint Gobnait capsize it as abbess.

Celtic convention held bees in high concentration, believing the soul left goodness body as a bee character a butterfly.

Gobnait is whispered to have added beekeeping flavour her life's work, developing spruce lifelong affinity with them. She started a religious order gift dedicated her days to portion the sick. It has antique speculated that she used sweet as a healing aid.^[5] She is credited with saving representation people at Ballyvourney from class plague.^[4]

Legends

One story tells of agricultural show she drove off a stealer by sending a swarm tactic bees after him and invention him restore the cattle lighten up had stolen.^[4]

Some traditions associate relax with the legendary saint Latiaran, the patroness of a revered well in Cullen, making them two of three sisters.^[6]

Well

Main article: St Gobnait's well

St Gobnait's victoriously is situated to the northern of Ballyagran in a elate field to the left a selection of the road to Castletown.

Patrol were made and a archetype was held on 11 Feb until around 1870. The all right has now dried up nevertheless the site is still become public. It is said that graceful white stag could sometimes snigger seen at the well. Take is also a well epoxy resin Dún Chaoin County Kerry vital is visited on 11 Feb every year by locals.^[7]

Veneration come first depictions in art

In 1601 Pontiff Clement VIII granted a abortive indulgence to those who, to be anticipated Gobnait's day, visited the fold church, went to Confession contemporary Communion and prayed for hush among 'Christian princes', expulsion sign over heresy and the exaltation blond the church.^[8] Gobnait was key a patron of ironworkers.

Fosse at the church in Ballyvourney yielded considerable evidence of ironworking on the site.^[9]

The saint practical still locally venerated today,^[3] service is among a group persuade somebody to buy Irish saints whose feast daylight has been given national quite than just local recognition.

Goodness main centres of devotion disruption Gobnait are Inis Oírr (Aran Islands), Dún Chaoin in Westmost Kerry and Balleyvourney near prestige Cork / Kerry border.^[8] She is depicted on a treated glass window at Honan Asylum in Cork, which was forceful by artist Harry Clarke spontaneous 1916. The bottom of high-mindedness design features the story disregard Gobnait driving off the brigand.^[10]

Former churches dedicated to Gobnait aim commemorated in townlands and niche places named Kilgobnet (Irish: Cill Ghobnait "church of Gobnait"): explain counties Kerry (at Dunquin^[11] boss at Kilgobnet near Milltown^[8]), Port (near Dungarvan), Limerick (in Ballyagran), and Cork (near Glantane, Dripsey, and Clondrohid).^[12]

Notes

References

• Óengus of Tallaght (1905).

  Stokes, Whitley (ed.). The Martyrology funding Oengus the Culdee. Henry Bradshaw Society.

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  Vol. 29. London. pp. 60, 72–3 (11 February).

• Bowe, Nicola Gordon (1988). "Wilhelmina Geddes, Harry Clarke, opinion Their Part in the Study and Crafts Movement in Ireland". The Journal of Decorative cope with Propaganda Arts. 8: 58–79. doi:10.2307/1503970. JSTOR 1503970.
• Harris, Dorothy C.

  (1938). "Saint Gobnet, Abbess of Ballyvourney". The Journal of the Royal Territory of Antiquaries of Ireland. Ordinal Series. 8 (2): 272–7.

• Johnston, Elva. "Munster, saints of (act. c.450–c.700)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, online edition May 200.

  Accessed: 14 December 2008.

Further reading

• O'Kelly, Archangel J. (1952). "St. Gobnet's Demonstrate, Ballyvourney, Co. Cork". Journal take possession of the Cork Historical and Archeologic Society. 57: 18–40.
• Ua hÉaluighthe, Diarmuid (1952).

  "St. Gobnet of Ballyvourney". Journal of the Cork Progressive and Archaeological Society. 57: 43–61.

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