Venerable
Osmanna
An Irish virgin and recluse in Brittany, reposed around 650.
- Feast
- September 9old style September 22
- Reposed
- 6507th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Osmanna, also called Agariarga, was, according to tradition, an Irish virgin of royal birth who crossed to Brittany and lived as an anchoress, alone, in a hermitage. According to one source this was near Saint-Brieuc, according to another near the mouth of the Loire. Many healings are attributed to her. Her story may have little historical basis. She reposed around the year 650. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
Her commemoration falls on 9 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 22 September of the civil calendar.
Commemorated the same day September 9
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Ciarán of ClonmacnoiseVenerable · Abbot of ClonmacnoiseSep 9
Joseph of VolotskVenerable · Abbot of Volokolamsk MonasterySep 9
Gorgonius of NicomediaMartyr · Martyr of NicomediaSep 9
Philaret of GlinskVenerable · Abbot of Glinsk HermitageSep 9
Basil KishkinVenerable · Hieromonk of PloshchanskSep 9- Zenobius MazhugaSaint · Metropolitan of the Georgian ChurchSep 9
Andronik LukashVenerable · Schema-archimandrite and elderSep 9
Joanicius of RakotinciVenerableSep 9
Zacharias LobovHieromartyr · Archbishop of VoronezhSep 9- Joachim of OpochkaVenerable · Disciple of St. Euphrosynus of PskovSep 9
- Nikita of ConstantinopleFool-for-Christ · Clerk of ConstantinopleSep 9