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Saint

Ecca mac H-⁠Uca of Lethcain

A saint entered in the Martyrology of Tallaght on 20 January; his family, time and place cannot be determined.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
January 20old style February 2
Era
unknown
Place
Lethcain

Life

Ecca mac H-⁠Uca of Lethcain is a saint named on 20 January in the Martyrology of Tallaght, as Ecca, Mac H-⁠Uca or Chae, of Lethcain. The day follows the Julian calendar of the medieval martyrologies.

The historian O'Hanlon (Lives of the Irish Saints, 1875) cannot say whether he is the same as Acca, bishop of Hexham and of Candida Casa (Whithorn). His family, time and place cannot be established. Lethcain may be a form of Leathcuinn, the name of the northern half of Ireland, or a place in the parish of Kilmore near Armagh; this is not known. He is honoured in the Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.

Commemorated the same day January 20