Venerable
Ceallach of Glendalough
An Irish saint honored at Disert-Cellaig, of the 5th century, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
- Feast
- October 7old style October 20
- Era
- 5th century
- Place
- Disert-Cellaig
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Ceallach of Glendalough (Cellach) was an early Irish saint linked with Glendalough in County Wicklow. The Martyrology of Tallaght calls him a Saxon. He was a deacon and lived to the south-east of Glendalough, at a place called Disert-Cellaig, a name meaning Cellach's hermitage, which shows that he lived as a recluse.
The Irish Life of Saint Kevin says that he was ordered to go to Disert-Cellaig as a penance for vanity. His feast is kept on 7 October. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.
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