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Venerable

Corbican

A holy man of Ireland, commemorated in the old Western calendars.

Feast
June 26old style July 9
Era
8th century
Place
Ireland

Life

Saint Corbican was born in Ireland in the eighth century and lived as a hermit in Holland, where he helped simple people. The sources preserve no further details of his life.

He is commemorated on 26 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 26