Maccallin

Maccallin (also Malcallan or Maolcalain) was abbot of the monastery of Waulsort and died in 978. He is remembered on 21 January.

He was an Irishman. He made a pilgrimage to the relics of Saint Fursey at Péronne, in the time of the Viking invasions. He entered a monastery at Gorze and later became a hermit. He was given lands on which he founded the monastery of Saint Michael in Thiérache, where he was abbot. Soon after he founded a second monastery, at Waulsort, near Dinant in Belgium, on the river Meuse, setting Saint Cadroe (remembered on 6 March) at its head. In 946 the German king Otto I the Great issued a charter by which the monastery of Waulsort was to be governed by an Irish abbot as long as there were Irishmen in the community.

He is a saint of the West, of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.