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It includes Medieval Irish saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female saints of medieval Ireland" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Saint Patrick, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland.The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.
She is a patroness saint of Ireland (and one of its three national saints), as well as of healers, poets, blacksmiths, livestock and dairy workers, among others. [ 2 ] Brigid is said to have been buried at the high altar of the original Kildare Cathedral , and a tomb raised over her [ 22 ] "adorned with gems and precious stones and crowns of ...
Saint Gobnait (fl. 6th century?), also known as Gobnat or Mo Gobnat or Abigail or Deborah, is the name of an early medieval female Irish saint whose church was Móin Mór, later Bairnech, in the village of Ballyvourney (Irish: Baile Bhuirne), County Cork in Ireland. [3]
Female saints of medieval Ireland (32 P) ... Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 ...
Female saints of medieval Ireland (32 P) Pages in category "Women of medieval Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Saint Moninne or Modwenna of Killeavy was one of Ireland's early female saints. After instruction in the religious life, she founded a community, initially consisting of eight virgins and a widow with a baby, at Slieve Gullion, in what became County Armagh. They lived an eremitical life, based on that of Elijah and Saint John the Baptist ...
Her fame, apart from her relationship to Ireland's national apostle, stands secure as not only a great saint but as the mother of many saints. [1] When Saint Patrick visited Bredach, as is found in the "Tripartite Life of St. Patrick," he ordained Aengus mac Ailill, the local chieftain of Moville, now a seaside resort for the citizens of Derry ...