Saint
Brighit daughter of Leinin
An Irish saint honored at Moin Miolain, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
- Feast
- March 8old style March 21
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Moin-Miolain
Life
Saint Brighit daughter of Leinin was an Irish saint of Cill-ingen-Leinin in Uí Briúin Cualann. The Martyrology of Donegal says that she was of the race of Aenghus, son of Mogh Nuadhat, and names at the same place her sisters, Druigen, Luigen, Luicell, Macha and Riomhtach. She is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. Her day of commemoration is 6 March (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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