St. Munchin, also known in Irish as maincin,
"little monk" was a contemporary of St. Patrick's who
appointed him abbot of Mungret. This abbey became a center of
scriptural scholarship thanks to his efforts. In his later life
he built a hermitage at Kill-munchin near lumneach, around which
grew up a community of anchorites, fellow hermits. Here, much
later, developed the
CITY of LIMERICK. |
Kill-munchin became his place of retirement,
or as the Irish saints would say, "the place of his resurrection."
There, by prayer, fasts, and deeds of mercy, he lived out his
older years in a more contemplative, holy solitude, at home in
the strength and beauty of what is today the County of Limerick,
which the visitor encounters after leaving Shannon Airport, and
which surrounds the city whose patron saint he became. |
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