ST FEDLIMID, BISHOP

ST FEDLIMID, BISHOP - 9 AUGUST

SAINT FEDLIMID, BISHOP

Saint Fedlimid (Felimy, Feidlimid, Felim), Bishop of Kilmore, lived in the sixth century. He is presumed to have been brother to St Dermod, Abbot of Iniscloghran.

HE WAS THE BROTHER OF ST DERMOD

He died on August 9, and seems the same whom the registry of Clogher styles bishop of Cluain or Clunes, near Lough-Erne, and says he was buried there near St Tigernagh, first bishop of that see.

These two brothers were contemporaries of St Kiaran of Clonmacnoise, who died in 549, and of St Senan, who died in 544.

BISHOP OF KILMORE

St Fedlimid was bishop of Kilmore, which name signifies great church or cell, though the bishopric was only fixed at Kilmore in the great church of St Fedlimid there, (which was before only parochial, but is now the cathedral,) by the confirmation of Pope Nicholas V in 1454, and is often styled Brefiniensis or Triburnensis, because it was before settled at Brefiny or Brefne, and afterwards at Triburna, now an obscure village.

St Fedlimid’s festival is kept with great solemnity throughout this diocese with an octave and indulgence.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Fedlimid may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

➡️ Irish Confessors and Martyrs

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