ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 12th of August
SAINT MUREDACH, BISHOP
Saint Patrick, in his progress through Connaught, coming to a pleasant place where the river Moy empties itself into the ocean, built on the south banks a noble church called Kill-Aladh, of which he made Muredach, one of his disciples, bishop, about the year 440. It is situated in the county of Mayo.
HE WAS MADE BISHOP BY ST PATRICK
The bishops of this see have been sometimes called bishops of Tiramalgaid, now corrupted into the barony of Tirawly; sometimes of O’Fiacra, on the river Moy, a small territory; but since the twelfth century, of Killala, from Kill-Aladh.
[After a number of years, he withdrew to an island off the Sligo coast in Donegal Bay. The uninhabited island, Inishmurray, bears his name. He died there as a hermit.]
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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