Feast Day of St. Mel

An Irish saint who not only KNEW St. Patrick, but was his nephew!

St. Mel lived with his Aunt Lupait, but when slanderous rumors began to fly St. Patrick showed up to investigate. To prove their innocence St. Mel pulled a live fish out of a field he was plowing and Lupait carried hot coals without being burned. St. Patrick was impressed - but he told St. Mel that in the future he should do his fishing in the sea and his plowing on land, and that he should move out of the house and lived far away from Aunt Lupait.

And so it was.