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Enda, acting, and a few good men
Happy Friday friends,
And a happy feast of St. Enda, the father of Irish monasticism, to all who celebrate.
Enda was, according to the Martyrology of Oengus, a warrior prince of Ulster who was converted to Christianity by his sister Fanchea, an abbess and herself a saint.
Pious legend has it that — before setting off to battles of conquest following the death of his father — Enda visited his sister in her monastery, where she begged him to renounce war.
Allegedly, he said he would, but only if his sister, the abbess, would give him a young girl from the cloister as a wife. She agreed. That might strike modern readers as a complicated witness to sanctity by both parties.
But, it turns out, God writes straight with our crooked lines, and the girl died virtually as soon as the deal was struck.
Fanchea, to impress upon her brother that the girl in question was actually dead — and thus she had made good on her end of the deal — made Enda inspect the body, catechising him in the process on …