Feast day: May 16
St. Brendan the Navigator
An Irish abbot and founder of monasteries whose legendary seven-year sea voyage in search of the 'Promised Land of the Saints' became one of medieval Europe's favorite tales.
His sea-saga, the 'Voyage of St. Brendan,' had medieval readers wondering whether an Irish monk reached America a thousand years before Columbus.
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