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Saint

Molioba of Gort Chirp

An Irish saint honored at Gort Chirp, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
August 6old style August 19
Era
unknown
Place
Gort-⁠chirp

Life

Saint Molioba of Gort Chirp 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 5 August. 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.

Nothing else about him is preserved in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day August 6