Baring-Gould’s sources: Dempster’s Scottish Menology. Authority A Life in Capgrave; also see S. Aidan of Ferns, Jan. 31. S. Modoc, commemorated as a Bishop and Culdee this day in Scotland, is unquestionably the same as S. Aedan of Ferns, celebrated in the hagiology of Ireland and Wales, on Jan. 31. The simple form of his name is Aedh (Aeda, Aidus, ^Edeus, Edus, Hugh); with the diminutive it is Aedhan (Aedan, Aidamus, Edanus); with the honorific prefix it is Mo-Edoc (Modocus, Maidocus, Madock, Madoes, Mogue). He was born in a.d. 588 at Inis-breaghmuigh (East Breffny). His father’s name was Sedna, eighth in descent from Colla Nais, King of Ireland in 336. His mother was Eithne of Tirawley. As a child he was a hostage to Ainmire, King of Ireland in 568; after that he studied along with S. Lasrian or Mallaissi of Devenish, in Lough Eame. After a sojourn in Leinster he betook himself to S. David’s Monastery, Killmuine, in Wales. Here he remained some time, renowned for sanctity. He returned to Ui-Ceinnselaigh, in Ireland, was mixed up in the dissensions of his native country, and on the success of his halfbrother, King Brandubh, he had Ferns assigned him as an episcopal see. He returned to Wales on a visit to S. David before he died; then, returning to Ireland, he survived till the beginning of the 7th century. In Scotland he is commemorated at Kilmadock. For legends concerning him see the life of S. Aidan, Jan. 31.

1 See an exhaustive account of him in Dr. Reeves’ Paper ‘On some Ecclesiastical Bells,' in the “ Transactions of the R. Irish Academy,” vol. viii. p. 446. Also Bishop Forbes' “ Scottish Kalendars,” p. 403. S. Madelberta.