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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.
Category: Christian female saints of the Middle Ages. ... Female saints of medieval Ireland (32 P) Female saints of medieval Italy (23 P) J. Joan of Arc (4 C, 33 P) P.
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 "Women of medieval Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Samthann / ˈ s æ v h æ n /, [1] modernised spelling Samhthann or Samthana, is an Irish folk saint, purportedly a Christian nun and abbess in Early Christian Ireland. [2] She is one of only four female Irish saints for whom Latin Lives exist. She died on 19 December [3] 739. [4]
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 ...