@lorraineelizab6 Thanks ,Lorraine. The blog address is still so all that has really changed is that it's now hosted by WordPress rather than Blogger. If anyone is having any trouble with the new layout, just let me know.

Added another of the saints commemorated on Jan 17 to the blog today - St Molaisse of Kilmolash, Co Waterford. He is one of 40 saints of this name, alas, nothing much seems to be known about him: @catholicheritag

Added a saint new to the blog today - Saint Earnán of Tigh-Earnain. He is one of a number of obscure saints commemorated on January 17 and one of at least 25 of this name. @catholicheritag

February 2 is the feast of St Columbanus of Ghent, 10th c. Irish anchorite , d. 959. Lived in hermitage attached to St Bavo's cemetery in Ghent and regarded as one of the city's patrons. @catholicheritag

Offering my customary antidote to the goddess at the blog today - an account of a 1934 pilgrimage to Faughart to honour 'that peerless Irishwoman - Mary of the Gael'! Blessings of the Feast of Saint Brigid! @catholicheritag

@lorraineelizab6 @catholicheritag Thanks Lorraine, I am definitely too old a dog for these new tricks . I just want to write about the saints but am trying my best to nod sagely and look intelligent with all this talk about domains, servers and hosts etc. All ye saints of Ireland, come to my aid!

There will be a second chance to hear last week's All the Saints of Ireland programme on @RadioMariaIRE tonight, Jan 23 @ 10pm. Tomorrow night, Jan 24 at 7pm we will feature Saints Cannera of Bantry, Manchán of Lemanachan and Muirgen the mermaid saint! @catholicheritag

'The Ruined Abbeys in Ireland' is an 1889 article reproduced at the blog today. It expresses the sense of loss felt at the destruction of Irish ecclesiastical sites like Adare, Askeaton and Ballintubber as a result of the Reformation. @catholicheritag

Added a saint new to the blog today. Saint Ultán of Cúl Corra is one of a number of obscure saints found on the Irish calendars on Jan 17. Not much known. but may be from the area of Lough Derravarragh assoc with the Children of Lir: @catholicheritag

Pilgrimage in 'the remote glens of Donegal, where the relics of some of the greatest of our Irish saints are not enshrined in gold or silver, but in crumbling walls, swathed in green ivy' - 1877 article on Doon Well : @Donegalcomuseum @catholicheritag

'But St Fillan, after performing many and other various miracles, full of happy days, went to Christ on 9 January, and was brought for burial in that church called Strathfillan and there he rests.' Aberdeen Breviary @stmoluagscorac1

'But at length, after varieties of penance and other merits of good deeds, full of days, she flew heavenwards to Christ on 7 January, having breathed forth her spirit.' Aberdeen Breviary, Office for the Feast of St Kentigerna. @stmoluagscorac1 @catholicheritag

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'St Patrick arriving on runway 5' - a new post at the blog looks at the tradition of naming aircraft of the Aer Lingus fleet after Irish saints: @catholicheritag

Dec 31 is the feast of Pope St Silvester I and a new post at the blog asks if he is the Silvester to whom the church and well at Malahide, Co Dublin are dedicated. 16th c source records church of 'Seynt Fenwe' there: @catholicheritag

'The High-King of Heaven was born in kindly Bethlehem at Christmas; when He was born He took a course from the sun so that He warmed the world with His glowing heat.' Full text of this 15th c. Irish poem here: @catholicheritag

St Maignenn of Kilmainham will be the main saint on All the Saints of Ireland tonight, Fri, Dec 20 at 7pm on @RadioMariaIRE. We will also meet some of our island saints, 4 saints of the last day of the year and hear 'On Christmas day, 1678' by Bp Luke Wadding. @catholicheritag