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Category: Female Saints

  • Saint Crone of Templecrone, July 7

     

    Another of our Irish holy women, Saint Crone of Templecrone, County Donegal, is commemorated on July 7. The brief account below comes from an article on the locality which bears her name:

    Templecrone takes its name from St. Crone, a contemporary of St. Columbkille, who built a monastery in the sixth century some three miles south-west of the present town of Dungloe, the metropolis of the Rosses. Her feast occurs on the 7th July, and the fair of Dungloe, held on the 4th July, is known as “Aonach na Féile Cróine”, from association with the Saint. Michael O’Clery has the following entry in his “Martyrology of Donegal” concerning the Saint: “Little Cróine, Virgin, from Teampall Cróine in Tir Chonaill; she was of the race of Conall Gulban, son of Niall”.
    Eoin Ó Searcaigh, ‘Templecrone – An Interesting Donegal Parish’, in The Irish Monthly, Volume 58, no. 683 (May, 1930), 258.

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  • The Daughters of Cathbadh, July 2

    July 2 brings a group commemoration of holy women – the Daughters of Cathbadh. Canon O’Hanlon gives this brief account, noting that in the Martyrology of Donegal  the siblings are reduced to a single daughter:

     

    The Daughter or Daughters of Cathbath, or Cathbadh, of Airedh Fotha.

    A festival to honour the Daughters of Cathbadh, of Airiud, is entered in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 2nd of July. Marianus O’Gorman has a notice concerning the chaste Daughters of Cathbad of Airida Foda, on the same day. In the Acts of St. Patrick, there is a Fothadh—probably identical—mentioned as having been a hill in Tyrconnell. We find this place also written Airedh fotha, in the published Martyrology of Donegal, at this same date, when there is only mention made of the Daughter of Cathbath, without giving her proper name; while the Bollandists, quoting the same authority, have the Daughters of Cathbad in Airiudh, yet they want a fuller and more distinct account in reference to the foregoing insertions.

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  • Saint Sproc, Daughter of Colum, June 30

    We close the month of June with the commemoration of a woman saint, Sproc, daughter of Colum. Alas, as is so often the case, all we know of her is the recording of her name on the Irish calendars at this date:

    St. Sproc or Sporoc, Daughter of Colum.

    Veneration was given, at the 30th of June, to Sproc, or Sporoc, daughter of Colum or Coluim, as we find inserted in the Martyrologies of Tallagh  and of Donegal.

     

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