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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Ninnidh Láimhiodhan

A saint venerated in the Western Church, of whom few details survive.

Feast
November 13old style November 26
Era
6th century

Life

Saint Ninnidh Láimhiodhan ("of the pure hand") is an obscure Irish saint of the 6th century, linked with Kiltoom in County Westmeath. A local source says that he founded the monastery of Ceall Tóma at Kiltoom and that he was of the Ceinéal Laoghaire. He is remembered on 13 November. Even among the early Irish saints he is little known. Some sources connect him with another Ninnidh, the one who attended Saint Brigid of Kildare on her deathbed, but this cannot be proved.

Commemorated the same day November 13