Saint
Lurach of the Poems
A saint honored in the Irish tradition; very little is recorded.
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- Feast
- February 17old style March 2
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- The POEMS
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch Lurach of the Poems is commemorated on 17 February (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He was a son of Guana, of Doire Lurain in Ulster, of the race of Colla Uais; his mother, Darerca, was the sister of Patrick. He was also a bishop. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.
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