Venerable
Curchach
An Irish saint honored at Cluain Lothair, commemorated in the Martyrology of Tallaght.
- Feast
- August 8old style August 21
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Cluain-Lothair
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Curchach was an Irish virgin, patron of Cluain-Lothair in Breifne O'Ruairc. She is remembered in the Martyrology of Tallaght. Her day of commemoration is 8 August (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of her life have been kept. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day August 8
Severus of VienneSaint · Priest at VienneAug 8- Gregory of SinaiVenerable · Hesychast monkAug 8
Eusebius of MilanSaint · Archbishop of MilanAug 8
Gregory the IconographerVenerable · Icon painter of the Kiev CavesAug 8
Kallinikos of EdessaSaint · Metropolitan of EdessaAug 8
Jacob of TumanVenerable · Monk and doctor of lawAug 8
Theodosius of the CaucasusVenerable · HieroschemamonkAug 8
Nikodim KrotkovHieromartyr · Archbishop of Kostroma and GalichAug 8Alexandru BaltagăNew MartyrAug 8
- Triantaphyllos the MartyrNew MartyrAug 8
Zosimus of TumanVenerable · Sinaite hermitAug 8
Myron of CreteSaint · Archbishop of CreteAug 8