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Venerable

Ermedhach of Craebh Laisre

An Irish abbot honored at Craebh Laisre, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
January 1old style January 14
Era
unknown
Place
Craebh-⁠Laisre

Life

Venerable Ermedhach of Craebh Laisre was an Irish abbot of Craebh-⁠Laisre. The Martyrology of Donegal links him with the year 681. He is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. His day of commemoration is 1 January (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 January 1