Skip to content

Saint

Oncho

An Irish saint, reposed around 600.

Feast
February 8old style February 21
Reposed
6006th century

Life

Saint Oncho was a pilgrim, a poet, and a guardian of holy relics and of the Celtic tradition in Ireland around the year 600. While searching for the memorials of the saints, he reposed at the monastery of Clonmore in Ireland, where his body was enshrined together with the relics he had gathered. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 8 February (new calendar).

Commemorated the same day February 8