Nov 24 Kenan d. 500

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St Kenan [Cianan]. d. 500

Follow the bouncing relatives – related by blood and in faith. Conchessa. She the Gallic mother of St. Patrick (387 – 493). Conchessa was a close relative of Martin of Tours. St. Kenan we are told was a disciple of Martin of Tours with Patrick. Imagine what dinner around that table was like? ! .

Kenan wound up as Bishop of Duleek in Meath, where he left us a stone cathedral.

And all the rest of the details I’ll leave for you to search – you’ll have to go past the first four google pages….

Just what language did Kenan speak? Probably some Latin? Gallic? Gaelic?

What kind of persona did he have to hold his own with Patrick and Martin? Or, what was necessary for him to absorb what Martin had to offer and bring it to enough other people to be selected their bishop?

How did Kenan get the idea to build the cathedral in Duleek out of stone?

It does matter whom God gives you for parents and parents’ relatives are His gifts to you as well. Who woulda thunk it that Conchessa’s being related to Martin would matter so much…. And to be cut off from all these relatives whom God has given you - - what, pray tell, is this costing you and us and our posterity….?

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