Saint Gobnait Mo Gobnat Abigail Deborah Chaplet Pocket Rosary Patron of Bees and Beekepers Patron of ironworkers Prayer Cards Holy Cards

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Now you can buy the Prayer Cards and a Chaplet

Chaplet comes with a prayer card and instructions on how to pray it, Gold Plated Crucifix Findings Pendant. the medal is 25mm about a quarter size and the image is protected with a Crystal Dome

Beautiful chaplet done to remind you that Saint Gobnait is the patron Saint of Bees and Bee-keepers


Local traditions connect St Gobnait with bees, with Ballyvourney, Co Cork and with care for the sick. It is a happy coincidence that her feast is on World Day of the Sick, 11th February, the day Our Lady appeared to Bernadette at Lourdes. There are few historical sources for the life of St Gobnait. Patrick Duffy summarises what the traditions are about her.
Early life
Gobnait is said to have been born in Co Clare. In her youth she went to the Aran Islands to study monastic life with St Enda. There is a church dedicated to her, Kilgobnet, on Inisheer. An angel told her that this was not to be the place of “her resurrection” (her death) and that she should tour Ireland until she found a place where she found nine white deer grazing. On her travels she is said to have founded churches at Dunquin in Co Kerry and Dungarvan in Co Waterford.

Statue_of_St.Gobnait Baile_MhuirneBallyvourney and bees

But it was at Ballyvourney, Co Cork, that she eventually found the nine white deer grazing. Here she founded a monastery with the help of St Abban. Famous among the miracles of Gobnait’s prayer was the stopping of a pestilence by marking off the parish as consecrated ground. She is also famed for her cultivation of bees and a story relates how she routed an enemy by loosing her bees upon them.

Patron of ironworkers
“That Gobnait herself was originally a patron of ironworkers is indicated by the implications of her name, which is based on the hypocoristic (=pet-name) Gobba, from gabha, ‘smith’. Excavation at her church in Ballyvourney yielded considerable evidence of ironworking on the site” (Pádraig Ó Riain, A Dictionary of Irish Saints (2011).

Care of the sick
Gobnait is remembered for her care of the sick. In the church yard at Ballyvourney many discarded crutches show that people believed they were cured by Gobnait answering their prayers. Her well is still at Ballyvourney and is an attraction for pilgrims.

Associations
There is a tradition that in 1602, when after the defeat at Kinsale and the destruction of his castle at Dunboy, Donal Cam O’Sullivan Beara was retreating with his soldiers – along with their women, children and servants – to the territory of O’Rourke of Breifne, they stopped at Ballyvourney to pay homage to the memory of Gobnait.

Until 1843 a 13th century wooden statue of the saint was in the hereditary keeping of the O’Herlihy family there. The tradition is that it was the O’Herlihy family who gave her the land to build her convent.

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