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Saint

Aedh of Slebte

Bishop of Slebte

Irish bishop of Slebte, said in the Martyrology of Tallaght to have gathered relics of saints.

Feast
February 7old style February 20
Era
unknown
Place
Slebte

Life

Saint Aedh of Slebte was an Irish bishop of Slebte. The Cain Adamnain states that Aedh, bishop of Slebte, was among the saints whom Adamnán found as security to free the women from every slavery; Adamnán died in 703. He is remembered in the Martyrology of Tallaght. His day of commemoration is 7 February (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of his life have been kept. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day February 7