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Gabréin

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Appears in the Life of Mo-Chua of Balla (Betha Mo Chua Balla, from the Book of Lismore [15th-cent.]) as Gabrin espoc do Bretnaib, a 'bishop of the Britons'. Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, ed. Whitley Stokes (Oxford, 1890), p. 139. His Feast appears in the 17th-cent. Martyrology of Donegal.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
6 24 yes St Gabréin None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations