Feast of St. Mel AND St Mun, February 6

 

Two Irish guys.

St. Mel was St. Patrick's cousin and seems to have been a missionary in Ireland. For a while, he lived with his Aunt Lupait. Scandalous rumors spread about the two, so St. Patrick showed up to investigate. According to www.catholic.org, "Mel was plowing when he arrived, but he cleared himself of the charge by miraculously picking up a live fish from the ground as if from a net. Lupait established her innocence by carrying glowing coals without burning herself or her clothing. St. Patrick was satisfied, but he told his nephew in the future, to do his fishing in the water and his plowing on the land, and he moreover enjoined them to avoid scandal by separating; living and praying far apart."


St. Mun was an Irish hermit who was St. Patrick's nephew.


St. Patrick sure has an interesting family tree.