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Saint

Ceollach

An Irish bishop who shepherded Mercia and later returned to Scotland.

Feast
October 6old style October 19
Reposed
7007th century

Life

Saint Ceollach was a bishop born in Ireland in the seventh century. He was bishop of the Mercians, also known as the Mid-⁠Angles, then went to Iona and returned to Ireland. Another source says that he returned to Scotland. He is commemorated on 6 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day October 6