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Saint

Maoldobhorchon of Cill Dara

An Irish bishop honored at Cill Dara, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
February 19old style March 4
Era
unknown
Place
Cill-⁠dara
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Saint Maoldobhorchon of Cill Dara was an Irish bishop of Cill-⁠dara (Kildare). The Martyrology of Donegal links him with the year 708. He is remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal. His day of commemoration is 19 February (the date in the Irish martyrologies, in the Julian calendar). No other details of his life have been kept. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day February 19