Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/158

Moluag

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
530 - 592
Description
Commemorated in the Aberdeen Breviary as Molocus episcopus confessor, on 25 June, as a major duplex feastday with nine lections. Said to be the founder of Lismore. He went to northern Scotland and converted the region of Ross, where he dedicated many churches to God and Mary the mother of God. The lections in the Aberdeen Breviary also say that he was buried in the church of St Boniface at Rosemarkie with great veneration. Known from Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St Malachy as Luan, founder of Lismore.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
Gaelic From Dalriada, mainland Ireland, Mann 75 None
None None 100 None
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
6 25 yes St Moluag, Bishop and Confessor None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations