Abban of Ireland is an Irish saint. His feast day is August 24. He included in John Hanlon's unfinished Lives of the Irish Saints. In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are often depicted as having halos. ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Holweck, F. G. "A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints". St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924.