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Dabheog
Irish saint
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 16 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
400
Died
—
unknown
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Saint Dabheog is the patron saint and a founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, a lake in County Donegal, Ireland, near the town of Pettigo and shouldering the border of counties Donegal and Fermanagh. His feast day is 16 December.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- Lough Derg - St Patrick's Purgatory (Diocese of Clogher sanctuary) - About Lough Derg — 'The original monastery on Saints Island in the same lake claimed Saint Davog, one of Patrick's disciples, as its founder abbot.' Davog = Dabheog, 5th-century Irish abbot of Lough Derg, feast 16 December. Site of the dio
- Wikidata Q4086821 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Dabheog (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.