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Venerable

Seanach Garbh

Venerable honored in the Irish tradition, who reposed in 620; the sources say little.

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Reposed
6207th century

Life

Seanach Garbh, who died in 620, was abbot of Clonfert, the second recorded abbot after Saint Brendan. Few details of his life are known, and over a hundred years passed before the next recorded abbot. The sources found show no veneration of him as a saint.