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Saint

Loichein

A saint honored in the Irish tradition; very little is recorded.

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

Feast
June 12old style June 25
Era
unknown

Life

Loichein appears in the Martyrology of Donegal on 12 June (old style). The same day also carries the name in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. Nothing else is known; the veneration is local and early Irish, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day June 12