Aed mac Bricc

Holy Hierarch Aed mac Bricc was a bishop in Ireland in the 6th century and reposed in the year 589. He was a disciple of Saint Illadan at Rathlihen in County Offaly and founded churches at Rahugh (Ráith Áeda Meic Bricc, County Westmeath) and in other places in Meath, his native region, where he was bishop. He is a saint of the undivided Church.

His Life, contained in the Codex Salmanticensis, shows him as a peacemaker between Munster and the Uí Néill; he was regarded as a patron of that people, to whom he was related through his father, and through his mother, Eithne, to the Múscraige Tíre of Munster. The Life relates that, quarrelling with his brothers, who refused him his share of his father's land, he carried off a girl belonging to them to force them, but Bishop Saint Illann persuaded him to give up his claim and let the girl go. An early Latin Life, perhaps of 750 to 850, survives; it shows great concern for the well-⁠being of women, especially holy virgins. An 8th-⁠century Latin hymn from Lake Constance invokes him as protector against headaches.

He is commemorated on 10 November, the liturgical date in the Orthodox calendar (the same day number on the old and new calendars).