Saint Mo Ling (614–697), also named Moling Luachra,
was the second
Bishop of Ferns
The Bishop of Ferns () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishopr ...
in Ireland and has been said to be "one of the four great prophets of Erin". He founded a monastery at
St Mullin's
St Mullins (, formerly anglicised as ''Timoling'' or ''Tymoling'' - 'homestead of Saint Moling, Moling')[St Mullin's]
, County Carlow. Also in the 7th century, St. Moling is said to have had a church built at Mullennakill in County Kilkenny. His feast day is 17 June. Traditions about him are preserved in two manuscripts, ''The Birth and Life of St. Moling,'' and the ''Borama,'' both of which expound on how he ended a cattle tributary imposed by the kings of Tara on the kings of Leighin, in retribution for an incident when the son of the king of Leighin went on a cattle raid to Clonfert, killing several princesses in the act.
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Eithne and Sodelb
Eithne and her sister Sodelb are two relatively obscure Irish saints from Leinster who are supposed to have flourished in the 5th century. They are commemorated together in the Irish martyrologies on 29 March, though 2 and 15 January were also ...
References
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Saint Moling et le Lépreux', a story about Mo Ling and a leper, edited from UCD Franciscan Manuscript A9 an
by
Paul Grosjean Father Paul Grosjean, SJ (26 May 1900 – 13 June 1964) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, Bollandist, and Celtic scholar.
Born in Uccle, Grosjean studied at St Michael College, Brussels before becoming a Jesuit priest in 1917. He was selected by Hippoly ...
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Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
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7th-century Christian saints
7th-century Irish bishops
696 deaths
Medieval saints of Leinster
614 births