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Saint

Brigh of Coirpre

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

Feast
January 7old style January 20
Era
unknown
Place
Coirpre

Life

Saint Brigh of Coirpre was an Irish saint of Coirpre. The Martyrology of Donegal notes that the Life of Brendan (Brenann) of Cluain-⁠Ferta mentions a sister of his named Brigh, but places her at Enach-⁠duin. She is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. Her day of commemoration is 7 January (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of her life have been kept. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day January 7