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Saint

Mochua of Cluain Crainn

An Irish saint honored at Cluain Crainn, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
November 21old style December 4
Era
unknown
Place
Cluain-⁠crainn

Life

Saint Mochua of Cluain Crainn is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 21 November. The Martyrology of Tallaght, from the early ninth century, lists a similar name on the same day. The date is that of the old Irish calendar, that is, in the old style.

No further details of his life survive in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day November 21