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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Foirtchern son of Feidhlimidh

A saint, son of Feidhlimidh, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.

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Feast
October 11old style October 24
Era
unknown
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Foirtchern son of Feidhlimidh is commemorated on 11 October (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Felire of Oengus and the Martyrology of Gorman. He was a son of Feidhlimidh, son of Laoghaire, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages; a bishop and a disciple of Patrick, of Ath Truim and of Cill Foirtcheirn in Ui Drona in Leinster. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.

Commemorated the same day October 11