Skip to content

Venerable

Lucan

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

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

Feast
January 27old style February 9
Era
unknown

Life

Venerable Lucan is commemorated on 27 January (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He is called a priest, with no place or parentage. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.

Commemorated the same day January 27