Mochuda of Lis Mor

Saint Mochuda of Lis Mor is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a bishop.

He was bishop of Lis-⁠mor and had earlier been abbot of Raithin. The Donegal text says he was of the race of Ciar, son of Fergus, and that Carthach was another name for him. At Raithin he led a famous community of seven hundred and ten people, and an angel is said to have spoken to every third man of them.

The text quotes the poet Cuimin of Condeire, who says that none before him had shed half as many tears. The year 636 stands beside his name.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 14 May. 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.