Texts

Vita sancti Maedoc(i) (Vespasian version)

  • Latin
  • prose
  • extent: more or less complete
First (extant) redaction of the Latin Life of Máedóc of Ferns.

Subjects

Máedóc of Ferns
Máedóc of Ferns
(fl. 7th century)
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.

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[ed.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
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295–311 (Appendix) direct link
[ed.] [tr.] Rees, William Jenkins, Lives of the Cambro British saints: of the fifth and immediate succeeding centuries, from ancient Welsh & Latin mss. in the British Museum and elsewhere, Llandovery: William Rees, 1853.
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232–250; 554–574 (App. 3)
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