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  • Saint Cronan the Priest, January 30

    January 30 is the commemoration of a Saint Cronan, who is recorded in the calendars as having been a priest. Nothing else is known of him, as Canon O’ Hanlon explains:

    St. Cronan, a Priest.

    The name of Cronan, also designated as a Priest, is found in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at this day. We are not informed as to his domicile, but he probably flourished before  the tenth century. We read, likewise, in the Martyrology of Donegal, regarding Cronan as having a festival, on this day.

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  • Saint Mocheanna, January 29

    January 29 is the feast of the wonderful Saint Blath, cook to Saint Brigid of Kildare. It’s a day she shares with another Irish holy woman, this one rather more obscure, as Canon O’Hanlon explains:

    St. Mocheanna, or Mac Conna, Virgin. 

    Watchful and untiring in their duty, holy virgins are as the Apostle desired, not children of darkness, but children of the light and of the day, sober and sleepless. We read of Mocheanna, a virgin, having a festival at this date, according to the Martyrology of Donegal. In the published Martyrology of Tallagh, as in the Franciscan copy, her name is simply entered as Mac Conna. Notwithstanding the apparently incorrect way of spelling the name in this latter record, I cannot doubt but it represents Mocheanna.

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  • Saint Aedhlugh of Aird or Eridh-Cassain, January 28

    The name of another otherwise obscure Irish holy man is recorded in the Irish calendars at January 28 – Saint Aedhlugh of Aird or Eridh-Cassain. Canon O’Hanlon simply records:

    St. Aedhlugh of Aird or Eridh-Cassain. 

    We find registered in the published and in the unpublished Martyrology of Tallagh, as also in the Martyrology of Donegal, on this day, an Aedhlugh, of Aird or of Eridh Cassain.

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