Saint
Berchan of Echdruim Brecain
An Irish saint honored at Echdruim Brecain, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
- Feast
- May 7old style May 20
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Echdruim-Brecain
Life
Saint Berchan of Echdruim Brecain is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.
The Donegal text names him together with Mochiarog (Mochuarog) and places Echdruim-Brecain either on the border of Dal-Araidhe and Dal-Riada or in Magh Mucraimhe, in the west of Connacht.
The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 7 May. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.
Nothing else about him is preserved in the sources consulted.
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