Saint brendan

48 x 54 inches, Oil Commissioned by St. Patrick Church, Kennett Square, PA

Voyage of Saint Brendan. Would make an awesome tattoo!

Saint Brendan The Navigator - Patron Saint of sailors, divers and mariners - keep them safe! May 16.

Just learned a bit about St. Brendan, who supposedly discovered America for the West before the Vikings in the 500s. In fact, the Vikings are some of the people who managed to keep records of his legendary travels. He started to sail west in hopes of finding the "Land of Promise of the Saints." I suppose once he got here, he figured he found it. The Irish should have returned after that and set up shop. Would've been an interesting world if that happened, I figure. In the sixth century, St…

Born possibly in Tralee, Ireland, and educated by St. Ita and ordained by Bishop Erc, he became a monk and founded a large monastery at Clonfert. Many fantastic details have been added to this brief knowledge usually based on the fictional 'Navagation' in which he is described as searching for the ...

Early cartographers often included illustrations or descriptions of sea monsters on their maps, in order to warn explorers of their location. Sometimes the drawings were symbolic, such as a picture of a king riding a fish, to denote who ruled that part of the sea. Others were supposed to be literal monsters, but the pictures were created from descriptions by frightened seafarers, often years after the fact. The image shown here is from around 1230 AD, depicting a whale that sailors mistook…

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