Saint Brendan of Clonfert, c. AD 484 – c. 577, aka the Navigator, the Voyager, the Anchorite, and the Bold. Early Irish monastic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. The Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot when he finds Judas Iscariot sitting unhappily on a cold, wet rock in the sea, and learns that this is his respite from Hell for Sundays and feast days. Brendan protects Judas from the demons of Hell for one night. From The Book of Saints and Heroes, published 1912.

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