Maildubh

Saint Maildubh was an Irish monk of the 7th century, said to have founded a monastic house at Malmesbury in England. Bede implies that the monastery was named after him ("the city of Maildub"). A later charter gives the name as Máel Duin. He died around 675 (by other dates 673).

He was one of the Irishmen who went to spread the Gospel in England. He lived as a hermit in the wooded country of north-⁠east Wiltshire. After a time of solitude, he gathered the children of the neighborhood to teach them. In time his hermit's hut became a school, and among his pupils were Saint Aldhelm, founder of Malmesbury Abbey, and Daniel of Winchester. He reposed at Malmesbury, in a community of scholars that later became very famous, and was buried in the church of Saints Peter and Paul at Malmesbury. In the 11th century his bones were cast out by the Norman abbot Warin of Lyre and put in a far corner of the church of Saint Michael. He is commemorated on 17 May. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.