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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 9th of August WELCOME! SAINT FELIM, BISHOP OF KILMORE ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints ⬅️ List: Irish Confessors and Martyrs Saint Felim ( Fedlimid ) lived in the sixth century and was Bishop of Kilmore. He is the patron saint of the Kilmore diocese. Felim became a hermit living near Kilmore, County Cavan, where he later founded a monastery. According to the Martyrology of Tallaght and Martyrology of Donegal his feast day is August 3 but the other Calendars list it on August 9. PRAYER: Lord of glory, in the self-abasement of your Son you gave us an example that we are to follow; through the intercession of your bishop Saint Felim, take from your Church all that encumbers it and make us ready to serve you freedom and in love. 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 9th of August WELCOME! SAINT FEDLIMID, BISHOP   ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints 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 T...