A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
August 9
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Bishop
Fedlimid, or Felimy, lived in the sixth century and is said to have been the brother of St Dermod, abbot of Iniscloghran in Lough Ree. He was bishop of Kilmore, and he died on 9 August.
Butler thinks he may be the bishop of Clunes near Lough Erne named in the register of Clogher. The see was formally fixed at Kilmore, in what had been St Fedlimid's 'great church', only in 1454. His feast was kept throughout the diocese with an octave.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on August 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: August 9
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Fedlimid's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
