ST COLMAN, BISHOP OF DROMORE, CONFESSOR

ST COLMAN, BISHOP OF DROMORE, CONFESSOR - 7 JUNE

SAINT COLMAN, BISHOP OF DROMORE, CONFESSOR

Dromore, in the province of Ulster, sixty-three miles from Dublin to the north, derives the succession of its bishops from St Colman, who was descended from the sept of the Arads, and born in 516, according to bishop Usher.

THE FIRST ABBOT OF MUCKMORE

He was the first abbot of Muckmore, in the county of Antrim, and afterwards chosen first bishop of Dromore, a small see under Armagh, and not far distant from it.

NUMEROUS MIRACLES

Jocelin, in his life of St Patrick, tells us that his eminent virtue was foretold by St Patrick; and his legend ascribes many miracles to him, and the wonderful conversion of a great number of souls to God.

The ancient scholiast on the Ængussian Martyrology observes, that he was also called Mocholmoc. He died about the year 610, on June 7, on which his principal festival was kept, or, according to some, on October 27, on which he was also commemorated.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

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