Saint Charles

Saint Charles (born Charles Argus, November 12 1828, Dublin, Ireland - died May 1 1893, Charles Town, Brunant) was a well-known Irish-Brunanter Catholic priest of Borderer descent who became the patron saint of Charles Town, Sint-Anders Parish.

Life and legacy
Argus became a Roman Catholic priest in 1852 at a Dublin monastery in Ireland. Ordained in 1857, he was sent to the Sint-Anders Parish in Brunant two years later, never to see the nation of his birth again. In the small place of Charles Town, then known as Brookford, he grew to be a popular confessor and was renowned as healer. Argus was a particularly pious priest, outstanding in exercising obedience and in the practice of poverty, humility and simplicity, and to an even greater degree in his devotion to the Lord.

Argus lived the remainder of his life in Brookford and was greatly loved by the Irish-Brunanter community to the point that after his death, in 1893, they renamed the town to Charles Town in his honor. St. Charles's Church, built between 1887 and 1893, was also named after him. On 21 December 1988 he was canonized, meaning declared a saint, by Pope John Paul II.

References and notes

 * Padric, Eugene; Plunk, Oliver (2004). Argus. Token Books.