Venerable
Colman mac Roi
A disciple of Saint Columba, remembered among the early saints of Ireland.
- Feast
- June 16old style June 29
- Era
- 6th century
- Place
- St Columba
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Colman mac Roi was a deacon and disciple of Saint Columba in Ireland in the sixth century. He founded a monastery at Reachrain, now Lambay Island, near Dublin. The sources preserve no further details of his life.
He is commemorated on 16 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.
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