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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.

Feast
April 29old style May 12
Era
6th century
Place
Magh-⁠bile

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