Skip to content
Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Muirdeabhair of Disert Muirdebra

An Irish saint honored at Disert Muirdebra, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
November 3old style November 16
Era
unknown
Place
Disert Muirdebra

Life

Saint Muirdeabhair of Disert Muirdebra is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland.

The Donegal text calls him Muirdeabhair the Wise and places Disert Muirdebra in Ui-⁠Conaill-⁠Gabhra. It notes a Muirdeabhair, son of Cuanan, of the race of Irial, son of Conall Cearnach.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 3 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.

Nothing else about him is preserved in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day November 3