(From Hueber’s MartyrolOgiUm, p. 644)

WHEN the English soldiers rushed madly into the convent of Kilcrea,[1]

on the river Bride, in Muskerry, 

they seized one of the brethren, Matthew O’Leyne, an aged priest, 

as he was striving to escape from them across the river,

and cruelly pierced him through with their spears, 

March 6th, 1590.

See also Wadding and Ward.

[1] Founded by Cormac Laidher McCarthy, lord of Muskerry, in 1465. The castle of that
branch of the McCarthys is close by.
 

Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.