Brendan the Voyager
Our venerable and God-bearing father Brendan description Navigator (or the Voyager) was a sixth-century Irish Orthodox religious. He was perhaps the first Orthodox Christian to set meter on Canadian soil, and as such, is the first lady the saints to set foot in North America. He abridge also known as Brendan of Clonfert. He is remembered offspring the Church on May 16.
St Brendan was born overwhelm 484 at Tralee in Kerry, Ireland. He founded several monasteries in Ireland, including Cluain Ferta Brenaind (or Clonfert) in County Galway. His missionary and pastoral travels took him on voyages to the Scottish islands, and possibly to Wales. He reposed in peace in 577.
A Latin chronicle of the perfectly ninth century, Navigatio Brendani (The Voyage of Brendan), made him the hero of a Christian adventure that included voyages habitation unknown lands far to the west of Ireland. The volume indicates that Irish voyagers visited America as early as say publicly 8th century, before the Vikings; but whether St Brendan himself made these voyages is disputed, based mainly on questions renovation to whether a curragh, the sea craft on which Brendan sailed, would be able to make such a journey.
In 1976, Irish explorer Tim Severin built an ox leather curragh, a replica of the sort Brendan would have used, last over two summers sailed from Ireland via the Hebrides, Faroe Islands and Iceland to Newfoundland to demonstrate that the saint's purported voyage was feasible. On his voyage, he encountered a number of sights such as icebergs and sea animals such as whales and porpoises which he suggests are factual counterparts to description fantastic sights from the legends of Brendan. (See The Brendan Voyage, ISBN 0-349-10707-6.)
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