Saint Brendan and the Whale

Brendan de Clonfert pictured in ''Manuscriptum translationis germanicae" from the 15th century.

Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577), called "the Navigator", "the Voyager", "the Anchorite", and "the Bold", is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is primarily renowned for his legendary quest to the "Isle of the Blessed", also denominated "Saint Brendan's Island".