Sentence examples for st kevin from inspiring English sources

St Kevin's College Who was St Kevin?

Glendalough - founded by St. Kevin in the 6th Century, it was destroyed by the English in 1398 and abandoned in 1539.

As well as living to the age of 120, handsome yet devoutly chaste St Kevin supposedly repelled the advances of a love-struck local woman by throwing himself naked into a patch of nettles and her into the icy lake.

Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.

Funeral Mass Saturday, St. Kevin's R.C. Church at 9 45 A.M. Visiting hours on Thursday and Friday 2-5 and 7-10 P.M.

The village of Glendalough is most famous for a 6th century monastic settlement founded by St. Kevin, a legendary monk now pictured on the whiskey labels, as monasteries like Glendalough were the birthplaces of Irish's distilling.

When St. Kevin settled there in the 6th century, Glendalough became an important monastic centre and, until 1214, the centre of a diocese.

The couple decided on a trip to Glendalough where there was a famous shrine to St. Kevin, one of Ireland's favorite saints.

He was an active member in St. Kevin's parish in Queens, serving as lector, a member of the Holy Name Society, and a rifle and boating instructor for the St. Kevin Sea Cadets and Wavettes.

The world was as it might have been 1,500 years ago, when St. Kevin founded the monastery below, and I wondered how long I could stay right where I was.

Caroline chose our first stop, about 30 miles south of Dublin, near the Heritage Site of Glendalough, where the remnant of the sixth-century monastery of St. Kevin nestles amid misty lakes and mountain trails.