SAINT MOBHI CLARAINECH

Saint Mobi [Mobhi] is listed by Kelly* with the addition: Clarainech, Dom. naigh Broc (p. 22) both in the Catalogue and in the Tallaght Calendar*.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 466)

*A hagiography source used by the authors

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

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Mobhi Clarainech, also Berchan, commemorated on October 12, was the abbot of a monastery in Glasnevin, where he was a teacher of Columba, Canice, Comgall, and Ciaran. This Irish early monastic saint, who died in 544, is counted as one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

His epithet, clarainech, means "flat-faced" in Irish, a reference to his being born without eyes or a nose. The Martyrology of Oengus mentions that he was "table faced," ascribing the condition to the fact that he had been "conceived and brought forth, and of a dead woman he was begotten." The immediate cause of his strange physiognomy was that the "earth pressed him down" during the unfortunate circumstances of his birth. He was said to have been miraculously cured of this deformity when he splashed the baptismal water of Saint David on his face three times.

Mobhi was the teacher of a monastic school, where he was the tutor of many influential Irish saints.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobh%C3%AD_Cl%C3%A1rainech - https://eire.fandom.com/wiki/Glasnevin

PRAYER:

O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of the blessed Nennius, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in his merits, we may be inspired by his example. 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.

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O most Sacred and most Loving Heart of Jesus! to which the Irish nation is most solemnly dedicated, preserve our nation in faith, in purity, and in charity. Through all its trials, its sorrows, its persecutions in the past, it remained faithful to the teaching of its great Apostle, St Patrick. May the former glory of its apostolic faith again appear.

May it become again the seat of learning and religion. May the rising generation see its rights restored. May the zeal of its holy priesthood increase. May the purity of its daughters preserve its stainless character. May the honour of its sons remain unsullied. May the evil of intemperance cease. May the spirit of infidelity and rationalism never reach its shores. May its attachment to the See of Peter, and its obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, never suffer diminution. May sanctity be its atmosphere and may it daily render greater glory and honour to thee, Most Sacred Heart, to which every Irish heart is, and will ever be, most devotedly attached. Amen.

Source: Saint Anthony’s Treasury, 1916

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