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Saint Enda Of AranSaint Enda of Aran (died c. 530) is an Irish saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Legend states that in his earlier days Enda was a warrior, and the King of Oriel. Upon visiting his sister, St. Fanchea, an abbess, she tried to persude him to to lay down his arms. He agreed if she would give him a young girl in the convent for a wife. The girl she promised turned out to have just died, and Enda only saw his fiancee as a corpse. Greatly affected by this, he went to study for the priesthood. He returned to Ireland, and built churches at Drogheda. He was given land in the Aran Islands by his brother-in-law, the King of Cashel. There he founded one of the first monasteries in Ireland, the monastery of Killeaney, as well as several other across the island, and has since been known as the father of Irish monasticism, along with St. Finnian of Clonard. His feast day is March 21. Patrick Pearse named his school for young boys St. Enda's School in honour of the saint.
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