Baoithin

Venerable Baoithin is commemorated on 12 October (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He is called abbot of Ia of Columba (Iona), next after Columba himself; his chief church was Tech Baoithin in Cinel Conaill, for he was of the race of Conall Gulban. The text says he was allowed to see three empty chairs in heaven, of gold, silver and glass, awaiting some saints of Ireland, and he told Columba the vision. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.