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Máedóc of Ferns

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696: 50: 634:. Following his return to Ireland, a local begged him for some meal as he was grinding flour and, after receiving some, disguised himself as a blind man to come back and beg for more. Annoyed, the saint cursed him that the generations of his descendants would never lack a blind member. Another time, wolves devoured a calf at one of his monasteries; its mother being inconsolable, Aedan blessed the head of his cook and told him to offer it to the heifer, which licked him and thenceforth "loved him like a calf". When asked by 1490: 518:) through a failed peace embassy followed by the successful idea to sneak Leinster's soldiers into the enemy camp inside food baskets. However the Aidan, Bishop of Glendalough, referred to in the tale is unlikely to have been St. Máedóc as they had different mothers. Maedóc's mother was Eithne while Aidan's mother was Bríg, daughter of Chobtaig m. 485:, which he had been told were scarce on the island. He landed as some locals were plundering another group of strangers and his quick response impressed the local chieftain, who granted him lands for religious communities. He then settled at Brentrocht in Leinster. Aidan is said to have fasted for seven years, during this period he ate only 765:
Aedan is credited as the founder of thirty churches and a number of monasteries. The first of these monasteries was on the island of his birth, now the site of 18th-century ruins and burial ground. The clay or mortar from the ruins of the church is said to provide protection against fire or drowning
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to heal monks suffering under an epidemic, Aedan was said to have indulged him: first by curing the monks and then by permitting the sickness to resume when Saint Fintan changed his mind, considering the sickness to be good for their souls. His hagiographers credited Aidan's curses with Brandubh's
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over the shards, however, it was repaired and he continued on his errand. A yoke given to him by David's steward purposefully too small to fit the necks of his oxen miraculously accommodated them and permitted him to bring the necessary materials for
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defeat of the Uí Néill; they further state that, when Sarán slew his father-in-law, he attempted to accommodate the saint only for Aidan to curse him that his right hand would wither to the stump. When Sarán begged for a
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as to occasion "conscientious scruples". On another, he was pushed into a lake to see whether he would lose his temper; upon his meekly restoring himself, his tormenter confessed himself and apologized.
561:). He was noted for his benevolence and hospitality: on one occasion, seeing them exhausted by their journey, he permitted beef to be given to a visiting delegation of British bishops during 49: 379:. These separate origins, his work in Wales, the extraordinary span of Aidan's activity, and the appearance of two dates of death has led some scholars—such as 402:. When a boat could not be found to take the infant Aedan across the lake to where Caillín waited to baptize him, Aedan was floated to shore on a slab of stone. The 553:
whereat Ferns was not merely constituted a see but its bishop Aedan was also given nominal supremacy over the other Leinster bishops as their Chief Bishop (
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and permitted them to excuse themselves with the claim that the slaughtered cow was merely "milk and vegetables in condensed form" whereas the
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Baring-Gould notes some difficulties in the chronology, however, and proposes Aeddan might have been a grandson rather than son of Gildas.
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By this point, many began to come to the young man desiring to become his disciples. Instead of indulging them, he fled from Ireland to
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near the site of his death. In Wales he founded Saint Madoc of Ferns church in Haroldston West, Pembrokeshire. The church of
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The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain
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Many miracles are recorded of St. Maedoc during his sojourn in Wales. He was said to have broken a jug while fetching
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in Ferns. His stone tomb is inside the cathedral, although his remains are in the original cathedral crypt below. The
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T. H. C. McFall: "An Account of the History of Ferns Cathedral Church" (Dublin: APCK, 1954; reprinted 1999, 2000).
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as one of David's three most faithful disciples. He returned to Ireland in 570, landing on the coast of
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Charles Doherty: "The Transmission of the Cult of St Máedhog", in P. Ní Chatháin and M. Richter (ed.),
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with prayerful visits to his church and to the island where he was born. Mogue is no longer used as a
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Stained glass window of elderly Saint Áedan in profile at the Church of the Assumption, Wexford
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Irish legend says that the "Bell of St. Mogue" was given to the infant on his birth by Saint
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Raymond Gillespie: "A Sixteenth-Century Saint's Life. The Second Life of St Maedoc", in
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Stained glass window of young Saint Áedan at Saint Áedan's Cathedral, Enniscorthy
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Raymond Gillespie: "Saints and Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Breifne'", in
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and is kept by many local people in their homes. Other monasteries include
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by rolling stones upon their camp in a narrow valley. He was listed in the
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Templeport. Souvenir of the Solemn Dedication of St. Mogue's Church
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Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Transmission
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is said to be made from part of the stone. As a youth, Aedan was a
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but the name Aidan is popular for boys in the West Cavan area.
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at the Battle of Dún Bolg in 598, either (according to the
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of Aed or Aodh, formed from the Irish affectionate prefix
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and the founder of thirty churches. His birth name was
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Index

Aidan of Ferns
Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne

Bishop of Ferns
County Cavan
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
shrine
Enniscorthy
Feast
Attributes
Honey bees
Patronage
Ferns Abbey
Templeport Abbey
Drumlane Abbey
Rosinver Abbey
Disert Nairbre Abbey
Llawhaden Abbey
[ˈmaiðoːɡ]
Irish
Welsh
Latin
Irish
Irish saint
Bishop of Ferns
County Wexford
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