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Venerable

Maeldubh Beg

A saint, commemorated in the Irish calendar; very little is recorded.

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Feast
October 2old style October 15
Era
unknown

Life

Venerable Maeldubh Beg is commemorated on 2 October (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He is called abbot of Fobhar; Beg means "the little". The veneration belongs to the undivided Church; nothing else of the life is recorded.

Commemorated the same day October 2