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Venerable

Osmanna

An Irish virgin and recluse in Brittany, reposed around 650.

Feast
September 9old style September 22
Reposed
6507th century

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