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Máedóc of Ferns

  • fl. 7th century
  • feast-day: 31 January
  • saints of Ireland
  • Ferna
founder and patron saint of Ferna (Ferns, Co. Wexford), later also a patron saint of Drumlane, Co. Cavan, and later still of Rossinver, Co. Leitrim.
See also: Mo LingMo Ling
(d. 697)
Mo Ling of Ferns;Moling Luachra
Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).
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See also references for related subjects.
Doherty, Charles, “Leinster, saints of (act. c.550–c.800)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51009>.
Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
[II. The textual evidence] “6. Applying the paradigm: St Patrick and St Maedóc”