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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Mainchein

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

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
May 1old style May 14
Era
unknown

Life

The Martyrology of Donegal records Mainchein on 1 May (old style). The same name also stands on that day in the Martyrology of Gorman. Nothing else is known; the veneration is local and early Irish, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day May 1