Saint Mochua, or Cronan, was the third son of Began, a man of good family.
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Mochua of Bella, also called Cronan, was a contemporary of St. Congal and founded the monastery of Balla in Connaught, which later became a town.
Butler says he died in the fifty-sixth year of his age. The text on this page gives the seventh century.
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 69 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Saint Mochua, or Cronan, was the third son of Began, a man of good family. As a child, he was despised by his parents, and sent to keep sheep. But S. Congal, passing by his father's house, called the boy to follow him, and made him a monk.
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Saint Mochua, or Cronan, was the third son of Began, a man of good family. As a child, he was despised by his parents, and sent to keep sheep. But S. Congal, passing by his father's house, called the boy to follow him, and made him a monk. S. Mochua founded the monastery of Balla in Connaught. He departed to the Lord in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
Feast: August 6
Traditional: January 1
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Mochua's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.