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  • Saint Beccan the Blind, February 26

    We commemorate Saint Beccan on February 26, to whose name the epithet of ‘the blind’ is attached in the seventeenth-century Martyrology of Donegal. His name, however, was preserved in the earliest  of the Irish calendars along with a place name which Canon O’Hanlon argues was in County Dublin:

    St. Beccan, or Becanus, The Blind, Probably of Kinsealy, County of Dublin.

    This holy man flourished, probably at an early period, for he is registered, in the Martyrology of Tallagh, at the 26th of February, simply as Beccan, Chind-sali. In the Martyrology of Marianus O’Gorman, at this day, there is an entry, Becanus Kinsalie. It is probable, his place was near the village of Kinsaly, some three miles from Howth, in the present county of Dublin. This saint appears, from the epithet applied to him, to have laboured under the loss of sight. Becan, the Blind, of Ceannsaile, had a festival, celebrated on this day, as we read in the Martyrology of Donegal.

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  • Saint Croine of Tallaght, February 25

    On February 25 we commemorate a County Dublin holy woman, Croine of Tallaght. Sadly, apart from her commemoration on the calendars, there is nothing else known of her, as Canon O’Hanlon explains:

    St. Croine, Virgin, of Tallagh, County of Dublin.

    Croine, Virgin, of Tamhlacht, is mentioned in the Martyrologies of Tallagh and of Donegal, on this day. A community of holy women seems to have been established at her place, in the county of Dublin. This virgin’s name is not found, elsewhere, in history.

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  • Saint Fechin the Priest, February 22

    All of the Irish calendars, from the earliest through to the latest, record the name of a priest named Fechin at February 22. Alas, this is the extent of the information we have on this holy man. Canon O’Hanlon can make only this brief entry:

    St. Fechin, a Priest.

    A Feicin, or Fechin, a Priest, we find mentioned in the Martyrologies of Tallagh, of Marianus O’Gorman, and of Donegal, as having a festival on this day. A notice occurs, likewise, in the Bollandists’ work.

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