Saint of the day April 04

 Saint of the day April 04

St. Tigernach. St. Tigernach died 549, bishop. Said to have been the godchild of St. Brigid, and educated in Scotland, he may have been a monk at Clones as well as a bishop of Clogher, but accounts are not too clear. He also is called Tierney and Tierry 

St. Guier. Hermit priest of Cornwall, England. A local church bears his name.

St. Isidore of Seville, Roman Catholic Priest and Doctor of The Church. Isidore was the first Christian writer to try to compile a summa of universal knowledge, in his most important work, the Etymologiae his learning caught fire in Spanish minds and held back the Dark Ages of barbarism from Spain. Feastday April 4

St. Benedict the Moor, Roman Catholic Monk. Patron Saint of African missions; African American; black missions; black people; Palermo, Sicily San Fratello, Sicily.