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Saint

Curitan of Kos Meinn

An Irish bishop honored at Kos Meinn, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
March 16old style March 29
Era
unknown
Place
Kos-⁠Meinn

Life

Saint Curitan of Kos Meinn was an Irish bishop and abbot of Kos-⁠Meinn. The Cain Adamnain states that Bishop Curitan was one of the saints who went security to free the women of Ireland from bondage. He is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. His day of commemoration is 16 March (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of his life have been kept. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day March 16