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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Laurence O'Toole
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- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Laurence O'Toole
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop of Dublin
Saint Laurence O'Toole Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Laurence O'Toole
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Laurence O'Toole: November 14
- Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop of Dublin
- Date of Death: Saint Laurence O'Toole died 14th November, 1180
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The Story and History of Saint Laurence O'Toole
The story and history of Saint Laurence O'Toole. Saint Laurence, it appears, was born about the year 1125. When only ten years old, his father delivered him up as a hostage to Dermod Mac Murchad, King of Leinster, who treated the child with great inhumanity, until his father obliged the tyrant to put him in the hands of the Bishop of Glendalough, in the county of Wicklow. The holy youth, by his fidelity in corresponding with the divine grace, grew to be a model of virtues. On the death of the bishop, who was also abbot of the monastery, St. Laurence was chosen abbot in 1150, though but twenty-five years old, and governed his numerous community with wonderful virtue and prudence. In 1161 St. Laurence was unanimously chosen to fill the new metropolitan See of Dublin. About the year 1171 he was obliged, for the affairs of his diocese, to go over to England to see the king, Henry II., who was then at Canterbury. The Saint was received by the Benedictine monks of Christ Church with the greatest honor and respect. On the following day, as the holy archbishop was advancing to the altar to officiate, a maniac, who had heard much of his sanctity, and who was led on by the idea of making so holy a man another St. Thomas, struck him a violent blow on the head. All present concluded that he was mortally wounded; but the Saint coming to himself, asked for some water, blessed it, and having his wound washed with it, the blood was immediately stanched, and the archbishop celebrated Mass. In 1175 Henry II. of England became offended with Roderic, the monarch of Ireland, and St. Laurence undertook another journey to England to negotiate a reconciliation between them. Henry was so moved by his piety, charity, and prudence that he granted him everything he asked, and left the whole negotiation to his discretion. Our Saint ended his journey here below on the 14th of November, 1180, and was buried in the church of the abbey at Eu, on the confines of Normandy. Feast Day of Saint Laurence O'Toole
The Feast Day of Saint Laurence O'Toole is November 14. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. |
Saint Laurence O'Toole- Short, concise biography of Saint Laurence O'Toole
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Laurence O'Toole
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Laurence O'Toole - November 14
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: 14th November, 1180
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Laurence O'Toole
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Archbishop of Dublin
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