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Cilléne Droichtech

  • d. 752
  • Feast-day: 3 July
  • Iona
  • abbots
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Abbot of Iona (r. 726–752), in succession to Cilléne Fota. Either of the two had his feast-day on 3 July and Félire Uí Gormáin opted for the present abbot. He is credited with the renewal of the Lex innocentium of Adomnán, whose relics were taken to Ireland.


    abbot of Iona Iona
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    726–before 752
    Cilléne FotaCilléne Fota
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    See also: Iona
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    Ó Riain, Pádraig, Feastdays of the saints: a history of Irish martyrologies, Subsidia hagiographica, 86, Bruxelles: Société des Bollandists, 2006. 416 pp + xxvii.
    58–59
    Bourke, Cormac, “Cillíne Pontifex”, The Innes Review 49:1 (Spring, 1998): 77–80.
    Argues that the epithet droichthech, ‘bridge-builder’ (cf. Latin pontifex) may point to a career as a bishop prior to the abbacy of Iona.
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