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Venerable

Abban of Kilabban

An Irish abbot and founder of monasteries, reposed around 650.

Feast
March 16old style March 29
Reposed
6507th century
Place
Kilabban

Life

Venerable Abban of Kilabban was an Irish abbot and founder of monasteries. Orthodox England calls him a nephew of Saint Ibar and the founder of the monastery of Kill-⁠Abban in Leinster, in the fifth century. Wikipedia links him to Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, near New Ross in County Wexford) and to other churches of his order, notably that of Saint Gobnait, his alleged sister, and gives his death as uncertain, around 520. Our record has the year 650. Three recensions of his Life survive. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 16 March (new calendar).

Commemorated the same day March 16