{"id":1815,"date":"2010-06-02T06:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T10:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2010-06-02T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:57:22","slug":"st-ronan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"St. Ronan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are probably a dozen St. Ronans, some Irish, some Scottish, all with different feast days. And the one I\u2019m choosing actually had his feast day YESTERDAY, June 1, but that day was taken by John Masefield. So I\u2019m noodging Ronan onto June 2nd. Being saintly, he surely won\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n

This St. Ronan was an Irish missionary who had left Ireland and lived in a forest overlooking the Bay of Douarnenez in Brittany, a location I would select myself if I were an Irish missionary. The story goes that his wife disliked his proselytizing among their Breton neighbors, so she accused him of being a werewolf. When you want to reform your husband, drastic action is required. But when Ronan was brought before the authorities, the nearby hunting dogs failed to attack him, thus proving his innocence. He went on to become a wandering healer of the sick and was buried in what is now Locronan.<\/p>\n

What, you may ask, does this have to do with the picture above? Well…it’s a stretch, but the CD Lord Ronan\u2019s Return<\/em> (for which I painted this cover) was named for another wandering Ronan. And you can learn more about that one, as well as how to obtain this CD of lovely music by by Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton, by going to their website<\/span><\/a>. Happy St. Ronan\u2019s Day! (yesterday)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are probably a dozen St. Ronans, some Irish, some Scottish, all with different feast days. And the one I\u2019m choosing actually had his feast day YESTERDAY, June 1, but that day was taken by John Masefield. So I\u2019m noodging Ronan onto June 2nd. Being saintly, he surely won\u2019t mind. This St. Ronan was anRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23,36,53,61,42],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-festival","tag-france","tag-ireland","tag-oil","tag-saints"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}