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Saint Brendan of Clonfert or Bréanainn of Clonfert ( 484 – c. 577) (Irish: ''Naomh Breandán''; (ラテン語:Brendanus); (アイスランド語:(heilagur) Brandanus)) called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", or "the Bold" is one of the early Irish monastic saints. He is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed," also called Saint Brendan's Island. The ''Voyage of Saint Brendan'' could be called an immram (Irish navigational story). He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.〔(Grattan-Flood, William. "The Twelve Apostles of Erin." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 24 Jul. 2013 )〕 Saint Brendan's feast day is celebrated on 16 May by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians.〔 (Ὁ Ὅσιος Βρενδανὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητής ). ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.〕 ==Sources== There is very little secure information concerning Brendan's life, although at least the approximate dates of his birth and death, and accounts of some events in his life, are found in the Irish annals and genealogies. The first mention of Brendan occurs in Adamnan's ''Vita Sancti Columbae'', written between 679 and 704. The first notice of him as a seafarer appears in the ninth century ''Martyrology of Tallaght''.〔(MacPherson, Alan G., "Pre-Columbian Discoveries and Exploration of North America", ''North American Exploration'', (John Logan Allen, ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 1997, ISBN 9780803210158 )〕 The principal works devoted to the saint and his legend are a 'Life of Brendan' in several Latin and Irish versions (''Vita Brendani'' / ''Betha Brenainn'') and the better known 'Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot' (''Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis'').〔 Unfortunately, the Lives and the Voyage provide little reliable information about his life and travels; they do, however, attest to the development of his following in the centuries after his death. An additional problem is that the precise relationship between the ''Vita'' and the ''Navigatio'' traditions is uncertain. Just when the ''Vita'' tradition began is uncertain. The surviving copies date no earlier than the end of the twelfth century, but scholars suggest that a version of the Life was composed before the year 1000. The ''Navigatio'' was probably written earlier than the ''Vita'', perhaps in the second half of the eighth century. St Aengus the Culdee, in his Litany composed at the close of the eighth century, invokes "the sixty who accompanied St. Brendan in his quest for the Land of Promise".〔("St. Brendan the Navigator", Orthodox Outlet for Dogmatic Enquiries )〕 Any attempt to reconstruct the details of the life of the real Brendan or to understand the nature of the Brendan legend has to be based principally on the Irish annals and genealogies and on the various versions of the ''Vita Brendani''.〔Burgess, Glyn. The Voyage of St Brendan. UK: University of Exeter Press, 2002.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brendan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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