The Voyage - St. Brendan the Navigator

It is Easter morning somewhere in the cold gray Atlantic fifteen hundred years ago, and fourteen monks light a fire to boil their Paschal kettle — and the island moves. It is not an island; it is Jasconius, the great leviathan of the deep, the first-made of the creatures of the sea, who labors night and day to put his tail in his mouth and cannot — and every Easter for seven years he will come back, gentle as a lamb, to serve as the nave of their church. Dcn. Seraphim turns the boat of our podcast west, back across the Irish Sea and back a full century to the springtime of the Irish church, to tell the most famous traveler's tale of the Middle Ages: the Navigatio Sancti Brendani, the ocean-quest of St. Brendan of Clonfert for the Land of Promise of the Saints. Music used: "Across The Fields Of Gold" Yagull Music - Sasha Branislav Markovic, Mayu Saeki