Saint
Diarmait of Iona
A saint honored in the Irish tradition at Iona.
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- Era
- 9th century
Life
Diarmait of Iona was abbot of the monastery of Iona from 814, when his predecessor Cellach resigned, in the same year Kells was founded. He was the pupil or foster-son of a man called Daigre. The scholar Thomas Owen Clancy regards him as one of the most important Céli Dé reformers, who spread the movement in Scotland. Many of his sayings on rule and teaching are recorded in the Monastery of Tallaght. His abbacy was troubled. The sources show no canonization.