Daybreak for May 4, 2026

  • Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
  • Saint of the Day: St. Conleth, 450-519; he became a hermit living along Ireland’s Liffey River, at Old Connell; the renowned Irish abbessSaint Brigid, upon meeting Conleth, was so impressed by him that she subsequently persuaded him to become the governingbishop of her double monastery at Kildare; he was a gifted copyist and illuminator of manuscripts, and was likewise skilled in metalworking; a crosierkept in a museum of the Royal Irish Academy is said to have been made by Conleth
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/4/26
  • Gospel: John 14:21-26