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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 ...

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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…

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