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Saint

Ruiffine of Gleann da Loch

An Irish bishop honored at Gleann da Loch, commemorated in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Donegal.

Feast
April 22old style May 5
Era
unknown
Place
Gleann-⁠da-⁠loch

Life

Saint Ruiffine of Gleann da Loch is an Irish saint of the undivided Church, remembered in the old martyrologies of Ireland as a bishop.

The Donegal text calls him bishop of Gleann-⁠da-⁠loch and of Bennchar.

The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled in 1630 from older sources, commemorates him on 22 April. 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 April 22