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Venerable

Mac Nissi of Cluain mic Nois

An Irish saint honored at Cluain mic Nois, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
June 13old style June 26
Era
unknown
Place
Cluam-⁠mic-⁠Nois
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Mac Nissi of Cluain mic Nois is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as an abbot.

The Donegal text calls him abbot of Cluain mic Nois for sixteen years and sets the year 590 beside his name.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 13 June. 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.

Nothing else about him is preserved in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day June 13