Moeldodius

ON SAINT MOELDODIUS,

ABBOT IN IRELAND.

XIII AND XIV MAY.

Moëldodius Abbot in Ireland (St.)

BY G. H.

Orgiellia, commonly Vriel, Southern province

of Ulster, contiguous to the extreme part on the sea

of Eastern Mid Meath, the progenitor of the most illustrious

family of its Lords is reported

to have had Colla, by surname Dachrioch:

from which family begotten twenty-nine Saints, are reckoned

in Colganus on day XXI March in the Appendix to the Life

of St. Endeus Abbot of Aran chapter 4, with cited chapter 13 of the Sanctilogium

genealogicum. But these Saints are not outside Ireland

known, except very few, of whom are the said S.

Endeus, whose Acts we have given on the said XXI March, and

S. Moëldodius, in others Maldodus and Maldod, of whom

here we treat. Of his genealogy the cited Colganus num.

22 these things has: S. Moëldodius Abbot of Mucnaimh in

Oirgiellia son of Einginus, son of Aidus, son of Fiachrius, son of

Fiecha, son of Eugenius, son of Brianus, son of Muredacius-Meth,

son of Imchadius, who was one of the three sons of the above-

indicated Colla Dachrioch. Thus there through nine generations

deduced to further proof of the Irish we leave.

The natal of these Saints assigns there Colganus from

domestic Martyrologies, namely Cassel, Tamlacht,

Donegal, of Marianus Gorman, Engussius,

and Cathaldus Maguire, and then to S. Moëldodius's veneration

he assigns this XIII May: on which day in the Martyrology

of Richard Whitford, in English printed at London about year

MDXXVI, these things are read: In Ireland the feast of S. Maeldoki

the Confessor. On the following day XIV May is mentioned

S. Maldod, Confessor in Ireland, in MS. Florarium

of Saints, in the Auctarium of Greven to Usuard, German

Martyrology of Canisius, Catalogues of Ferrarius and Fitz

Simon. Dempsterus in the Scottish Menology these things hands down: In

Ireland of Maldodus Bishop, by nation Scottish, a man in

all things most holy, who with wonderful patience and example

presided over that nation. For his proof letters

M C he adjoins: by which he asserts is indicated the Martyrology

of the Carthusian, namely Greven, or Canisius or Adam

Walasser, which last we have not seen. In others nothing

about his Episcopate, or Scottish origin is held. Rather

with them Irish we judge him as Abbot of Muc-naimh in Oirgiellia.

The rest are hidden from us.