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Events in January 2024

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January 1, 2024(1 event)

All day: Circumcision of Jesus Christ

All day
January 1, 2024

Kalendis Januarii
Re síl dálach dóine
tóided in rí remain
luid fo recht, ard eráil
Críst i callaind enair.

Before men's multitudinous race
let the pre-eminent King lead !
Christ on January's calends underwent
the Law, high the requirement.
(Stokes 1905)


Circumcision of Christ from the Menologion of Basil II, AD979-84AD, f. 287
January 2, 2024(1 event)

All day: Isidore, Manchéne and Scothíne

All day
January 2, 2024

iv. nonas
Esodir in t-epscop
abb ecailse ardae
Manchéne án Airce
Scothíne mind Margae

Isidorus the bishop,
abbot of a high church,
splendid Manchéne of Airec,
Scothíne, the diadem of Marge.
(Stokes 1905)


Image: Early modern church ruin on the site of St Scothíne's church (Tigh Scoithin, Tiscoffin) near Freneystown, Kildare. Source: Kevin Higgins
January 3, 2024(1 event)

All day: Rhodon, Fintan and Findlug

All day
January 3, 2024

iii. nonis
Mármartrae Rodonis
cona chléir, cain ésce
Fintan co feib úasle
Findlug derb Dúin Blésce

Rhodon's great martyrdom,
with his train, a fair moon,
Fintan with a long life of nobleness
Findlug the sure, of Dún Blésce.
(Stokes 1905)


Dún Blésce, site of St Findlug's former church, mod. Doon, Co. Limerick Source: NMS-OSI
January 4, 2024(1 event)

All day: Aquilinus

All day
January 4, 2024

Pridie nonas
Bás caid Aquilini
co mbuidin ba balcu
hi fuil Chríst trea curpu
docóemnachtar tlachtu

The pure death of Aquilinus
with a troop that was strongest,
in Christ's blood by means of their (martyrised) bodies
they had washed (their) robes.
(Stokes 1905)


MS Laud Misc. 610, f. 60v, bás caid aquiline © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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