Saint Colman of Cloyne was also known as Colman Mac Lenine. He was the Child of Lenin. Artist. Imperial versifier, writer, performer, court student of history, and genealogist at Cashel, Ireland. Grown-up proselyte at age fifty, being purified through water by Saint Brendan the Navigator; he had turned out to be required with Brendan and Christianity while recouping the stolen place of worship of Saint Ailbhe from a lake. Minister. Evangelist in Limerick and Cork. Instructor of Saint Columba. Priest of Cloyne, area Cork, Ireland.
He was endowed with extraordinary poetic powers, being styled by his contemporaries “Royal Bard of Munster“. The Ardrigh of Ireland gave him Cloyne, in the present County Cork, for his cathedral abbey, in 560, and he labored for more than forty years in his extensive diocese. Several of his Irish poems are still extant, notably a metrical panegyric on St. Brendan. Colgan mentions the metrical life of St. Senan by him. His feast is observed on November 24. Another St. Colman is also venerated on the same day, as recorded by St. Aengus in his “Felire”: Mac Lenine the most excellent With Colman of Duth-chuilleann.