Right-Believing
Moghorog of Deirgne
An Irish saint honored at Deirgne, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.
- Feast
- December 23old style January 5
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Deirgne
Life
Saint Moghorog of Deirgne is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.
The Donegal text calls him a son of Brachan, king of Britain, and of Dina, daughter of the Saxon king, who was also the mother of nine other saints.
The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 23 December. 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.
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