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Mobhí
Irish saint
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 12 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
550
Died
544
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Mobhí Clárainech ([mˠəˈvʲiː ˈklˠɑːɾʲinʲəx], mə-VEE CLAWR-in-əkh; also Berchan; died 544) was an Irish early monastic saint, counted as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He was the abbot of a monastery in Glasnevin, where he was a teacher of Columba, Canice, Comgall, and Ciarán.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Comgall Saint Pupil
Sources
- Catholic Encyclopedia / Butler's Lives — St Mobhi of Glasnevin — Butler's Lives, under St Columba and St Canice: ‘…living at Glasnevin, with St Comgall, St Kieran and St Canice, under their former fellow student St Mobhi. In 543 an outbreak of plague compelled Mobhi to break up his fl
- Wikidata Q3317579 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mobhí Clárainech (CC BY-SA)
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