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	  document.write("<div id=\"xlaANMzone_665022\"><div align=\"center\"><h3 class=\"bach\">Saint Eugene<\/h3><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">The statue of Saint Eugene is set in a niche\nin the tower of the Cathedral above the main entrance doors. The statue is one\nof a consignment of nine statues around the exterior of the Cathedral, ordered\nfrom the firm of Pearse &amp; Sons - the family of Padraig Pearse (one of the\nexecuted leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin).<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:\n&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif\">The name Eugene is a comparison of the\nanglicised\/latinised ‘Eugenius’ with the saint’s actual Gaelic name ‘Eoghain’\n(pronounced ‘Owen’) which translated from Irish means ‘born under the\nprotection of the yew tree’.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:\n&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif\">Saint Eugene was born towards the end of the 5th century\nor the beginning of the 6th century. Along with Tighernach, a close friend who\nlater became Bishop of Clones, he received his early education in Clones.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:\n&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif\">Eugene is said to have founded a monastery in\nKilnamanagh, near Dublin, spending 15 years there as an abbot. Among his\nnovices there was his relative Kevin (Saint of Glendalough). According to\nlegend, Eugene had a vision, a divine command to travel north - a command he\nobeyed with great reluctance and against the wishes of his monks. It has been\nsuggested however, that he was invited north to the See of Ardstraw because of\nhis reputation for learning and sanctity. He was said to have foretold the\ncoming of Columba.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:\n&quot;Verdana&quot;,sans-serif\">Saint Eugene died on the evening of 23rd August while his\nmonks were chanting their evening office. He is buried somewhere in Ardstraw\ngraveyard and the suggested date of his death is 550.<\/span><\/p> <div align=\"left\"><\/div><\/div>");