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For the Month of May
An Ancient Irish Litany of the Ever-Blessed Mother of God
Translated from the Original Irish of the Eighth Century

It is very probable that this litany was used by Saint Berchán's monastic community about 725 A.D. at Cluain Sosta (Clonsast). Saint Berchán's disciples also first compiled the Leabhar Breac as a devotional work.

Saint Berchán is commended in the Donegal Martyrology as one of the four prophets of Ireland, ranking with Saints Columcille, Moling the Perfect, and Brendan of Birr. His monks were driven first from Clonsast, and then by the Danes from Dun Doighre, near Athlone, retiring subsequently to Scariff.