As a fervent preacher of the Gospel of Christ,
You in your little oxhide ship sailed to many lands,
Near and far, known and unknown, seen and hidden,
Adorning them with the beauty of God’s Grace
And receiving for yourself blessèd visions
And other delights – a foretaste of Paradise.
Passing to the next life, you entered
That Primordial Garden of the world
At the behest of God. He has granted you now
A wider sea to sail, the whole expanse of the heavens,
In a dazzling hollow half-sphere pearl trimmed with gossamer gold
And carried through the air by four radiant angels –
High above the ancient peaks of the mountains
And the twisting crowns of the eldest trees,
Through the clouds of many hues, rose, bronze, and milky white,
Through the fields of brightly shining stars
. . .
The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/new-voyages-of-saint-brendan-the-navigator/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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