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15th August 1585 (?) FORTY CISTERCIANS OF ST. MARY’S, NENAY
(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 450)
THERE was formerly in the diocese of Limerick a celebrated monastery of the holy Order of Citeaux, situated on the river Maigue,1 from which the monastery took its name.
It was founded in a most generous way by Donald O’Brien formerly Prince, or as other say, King of Limerick.2
Here a large community of monks, under the gentle rule of the Mellifluous Doctor, Bernard, employed themselves profitably night and day praising God, till Henry VIII., King of England, begat Elizabeth, the active agent of the Prince of darkness.
While she was on the throne, and, like her father, creating disorder everywhere throughout Ireland, she determined to put an end to the pious exercises of the monks of Nenay, so odious to the demons.
The children of the holy Order of Citeaux refused to obey the unjust laws of that frantic woman.
Wherefore her impious satellites made a sudden attack on the monastery, and slew at the same time forty monks and their abbot with spears and daggers, and cut off their heads, in the very church before the Blessed Sacrament.
They awaited the attack calmly, and encouraged each other to contend bravely for the faith.
This happened on August 14th ; but I do not know the year.3
Hartry adds: Very many grave authors whom the Chrysostom4 of our Orders cites, have given a very remarkable account of forty Cistercian monks in Ireland, who with their Abbot died for the Catholic Faith, and after their glorious death are commemorated:
Concerning Ireland there is a constant tradition in reference to forty monks, martyrs, who suffered the death of the body by the swords of the impious on August 14th, and on the same day having had their heads miraculously restored to them they sang at vespers in the choir.’5
1 This river rising in Milford, Co. Cork, passes through Croom, and Adare, and falls into the Shannon seven miles below Limerick.
Hence the name of the monastery De Magio
2 Hartyr says in 1151. Triumphalia, p. 192
3 Bruodin inserts this sketch between 1585 and 1586
4 S. Henriquez, the historian of the Order.
5 Triumphalia, p. 243
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.
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By Manus Mac Meanmain(From Bruodin’s Propugnaculum, p. 450)
THERE was formerly in the diocese of Limerick a celebrated monastery of the holy Order of Citeaux, situated on the river Maigue,1 from which the monastery took its name.
It was founded in a most generous way by Donald O’Brien formerly Prince, or as other say, King of Limerick.2
Here a large community of monks, under the gentle rule of the Mellifluous Doctor, Bernard, employed themselves profitably night and day praising God, till Henry VIII., King of England, begat Elizabeth, the active agent of the Prince of darkness.
While she was on the throne, and, like her father, creating disorder everywhere throughout Ireland, she determined to put an end to the pious exercises of the monks of Nenay, so odious to the demons.
The children of the holy Order of Citeaux refused to obey the unjust laws of that frantic woman.
Wherefore her impious satellites made a sudden attack on the monastery, and slew at the same time forty monks and their abbot with spears and daggers, and cut off their heads, in the very church before the Blessed Sacrament.
They awaited the attack calmly, and encouraged each other to contend bravely for the faith.
This happened on August 14th ; but I do not know the year.3
Hartry adds: Very many grave authors whom the Chrysostom4 of our Orders cites, have given a very remarkable account of forty Cistercian monks in Ireland, who with their Abbot died for the Catholic Faith, and after their glorious death are commemorated:
Concerning Ireland there is a constant tradition in reference to forty monks, martyrs, who suffered the death of the body by the swords of the impious on August 14th, and on the same day having had their heads miraculously restored to them they sang at vespers in the choir.’5
1 This river rising in Milford, Co. Cork, passes through Croom, and Adare, and falls into the Shannon seven miles below Limerick.
Hence the name of the monastery De Magio
2 Hartyr says in 1151. Triumphalia, p. 192
3 Bruodin inserts this sketch between 1585 and 1586
4 S. Henriquez, the historian of the Order.
5 Triumphalia, p. 243
Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.