Mochua

Venerable Mochua is honoured in Ireland as the founder of the monastery of Timahoe, in Laois, and reposed around 637, according to our record. The sources consulted keep no other certain details of his life. Western Orthodox calendars remember several Irish saints named Mochua (Cuan, Moncan), and one of them is recalled on 1 January as the founder of many churches and monasteries who lived nearly a hundred years; it is not certain that this is the same man.