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Saint

Cethagh

An Irish bishop of the time of Saint Patrick, reposed around 500.

Feast
June 16old style June 29
Reposed
5005th century

Life

Saint Cethagh (also called Cettin, Cetagh or Cettin of Oran) was a disciple of Saint Patrick and helped him in preaching the Gospel in Ireland. Patrick consecrated him an auxiliary bishop of Oran. He is believed to have reposed in the fifth century, around 500.

His shrine at Oran, County Roscommon, was a well-⁠known place of pilgrimage and stood until the end of the eighteenth century. He is commemorated on 16 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 16