ST. KIERAN OF SEIR KIERAN, +BISHOP - PATRON OF OSSORY..........

Today, March 5th, is the Feast Day of St. Kieran of Ossory, Bishop of the Church, Irish Apostle and contemporary of St. Patrick, and Patron of the Diocese of Ossory, which includes Counties Kilkenny and a portion of Offaly, in Ireland. Born in the 4th Century, in a place known as Cape Clear, now called St. Kieran's Strand, he is thought to have been converted to Christianity by foreign traders. Ordained a priest and bishop in Rome, he returned to Ossory and ministered to the Diocese as its Bishop, having founded a monastery in the northern region of the former kingdom, now diocese, of Ossory, in a location named Seir-Kieran. In 1780, the British Penal Laws in Ireland were abolished thus the Catholic Faith was again allowed to openly exist. The first ecclesiastical college founded just two years later in 1782, was St. Kieran's College and Seminary, in the city of Kilkenny. More than two dozen Irish priests ordained for the Sacramento Diocese, including yours truly, were trained and formed at St. Kieran's Seminary. The Catholic cathedral in Kilkenny, is called St. Mary's, but is actually St. Mary's / St. Kieran's Cathedral. My St. Kieran's seminary classmate Father Oliver Maher is now in his tenth Year as Parochial Administrator ofthe Cathedral in Kilkenny. A Happy St. Kieran's Day to the faithful in Ossory, the priests who are alumni of St. Kieran's Seminary, and the spirit of faith and fidelity to Gospel values their evangelization serves and prospers........."Heims Transit", (Winter Is Past) In Jesus The Christ, Fr. Troy David Powers
Certificate in Theology 1987, SKC