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Saint

Colman Muilinn

An Irish saint honored at Doire Chaechain, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
January 1old style January 14
Era
unknown
Place
Doire-⁠Chaechain

Life

Saint Colman Muilinn was an Irish saint of Doire-⁠Chaechain in Dál Riata, in Ulster. The Martyrology of Donegal says that his mother was Bronach, daughter of Milchu, son of Buan, with whom Saint Patrick had been in captivity, and that he used to make obeisance to the brethren in a mill. He is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. His day of commemoration is 1 January (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day January 1