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March 24 St. Caimin of Lough Derg

March 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Any good Irishman and the followers of Veggie Tales know the stories of the Vikings raiding monasteries in Ireland. One of the Vikings favorite stops was the famous Irish island of Innismore (or Inishmore, Inis More, Árainn (Mhór), Inis Mór). It was the place St. Clement set up shop and created a community of scholar monks. St. Caimen added his monasteries and church in the 600s. They became two of the largest structures on the island. The massive tower and walls of the church still remain. The abbey was visited many times by the Vikings, including being completely plundered in  836 and again in 922. The great Brian Boru himself restored the church  1009.  A fragment of the “Psalter of Saint Caimin,” claimed by some to have been copied by St. Caimin’s own hand, still exists in the Franciscan library at Killiney, County Dublin. He is also credited with authorship of the “Commentary on the Hebrew Text of the Psalms”