A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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August 12
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Bishop
St. Patrick, travelling through Connaught, built a church called Kill-Aladh where the river Moy meets the sea, and made his disciple Muredach its bishop.
The see was later known as Killala, in county Mayo. Butler gives about 440; Baring-Gould, the text on this page, gives about 580. The sources differ.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 27 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
…sadare in Sligo, to pay him their respects after the meeting of Drumkeith. He was of the royal race of Leogaire, sixth in descent from that prince.
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 12 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
…sadare in Sligo, to pay him their respects after the meeting of Drumkeith. He was of the royal race of Leogaire, sixth in descent from that prince.
Feast: August 12
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Muredach of Killala'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.
