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Bolcan of Gill Guile

An Irish saint honored at Gill Guile, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
July 4old style July 17
Era
unknown
Place
Gill Guile

Life

Saint Bolcan of Gill Guile is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 4 July. The Martyrology of Tallaght, from the early ninth century, lists a similar name on the same day. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.

The sources consulted record nothing more about him.

Commemorated the same day July 4