Saint
Brecan of Magh Bile
Bishop of Magh Bile
An Irish bishop at Magh Bile, reposed in 501, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
Life
Saint Brecan of Magh Bile, Bishop was a bishop at Magh Bile in Ireland, in the early centuries of the Irish Church. Nothing of his life has survived beyond his name and place; he is not to be confused with Saint Brecan of County Clare and the Aran Islands, another saint of the same name.
The Martyrology of Donegal remembers him on 29 April (the date of the martyrologies, in the Julian calendar) as Bishop of Magh Bile, as does the Martyrology of Tallaght. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day April 29
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