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Today the phrase "Celtic saints" invokes half-legendary images of ancient figures such as Patrick, Brigid, and Columba; bishops, monks, and nuns both austere and adventuresome; and perhaps even wandering sages and missionaries, rather than martyrs such as Oliver Plunkett, resolute founders and educators like Nano Nagle and Mother McCauley, reformed alcoholics like Matt Talbot, a hidden poet like Anne Griffiths, or a young lay missionary like Edel Quinn.
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ninth abbot, wandering saints, principal patron, white martyrdom, saved civilization, monastic settlement
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Middle Ages, Pilgrim Saints, Finnian of Clonard, Synod of Whitby, Brendan of Clonfert, Magh Bile, Druim Cett, Lough Derg, Annals of Ulster, Celtic Christians, Law of the Innocents, Life of Columba, Paul Aurelian, Twelve Apostles of Ireland, Brendan of Birr, British Christians, Candida Casa, Celtic Christianity, King Laoghaire, Matt Talbot, Tripartite Life, United States, Brigid of Kildare, Common Era, Continuing Tradition
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