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.
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