Saint
Brecan of Cluain Catha
An Irish bishop honored at Cluain Catha, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
Life
Saint Brecan of Cluain Catha is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a bishop.
The Donegal text places Cluain-catha in Inis-Eoghain and calls him bishop of Ard Brecain and abbot of Magh-bile, of the race of Eoghan, son of Niall.
The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 16 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.
Nothing else about him is preserved in the sources consulted.
Commemorated the same day July 16
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