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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Feidhlim of Magh Life

An Irish saint honored at Magh Life, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
December 9old style December 22
Era
unknown
Place
Magh-⁠Life
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Feidhlim of Magh Life is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a virgin.

The Donegal text names her together with Mughain as the two daughters of Ailill, son of Dunlang. Their place is Cill-⁠na-⁠n-⁠ingean, in the west of Magh-⁠Life, beside Liamhain, and they are of the race of Cathaoir Mor of Leinster.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates her on 9 December. The Martyrology of Tallaght, from the early ninth century, lists a similar name on the same day. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.

No further details of her life survive in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day December 9