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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Moshacra son of Bennan

A saint honored in the Irish tradition; very little is recorded.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
January 8old style January 21
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Moshacra son of Bennan is commemorated on 8 January (old style, Julian calendar) in the Martyrology of Donegal, and also in the Martyrology of Tallaght and the Martyrology of Gorman. He is called a son of Bennan. His name is among the guarantees Adamnan won to free women from every servitude, but the editor cannot tell whether this man or the abbot of Cluain Eidhneach, kept on 3 March, is meant. The name survives only in the martyrologies, without synodal canonization; nothing else is known.

Commemorated the same day January 8