St Malachy

Today is the feast day of the saint after whom this blog is named - Malachy. So, from the archives of this blog:

St Malachy, who was he?

Malachy died on 2 November 1148 but his feast day is kept on 3 November to avoid a clash with All Souls Day.

source: Patricia Drury at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Malachy

As an aside, it's also the feast day of St Martin de Porres