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as a reward for their virtue in youth; moreover he predicted blessings for them...To a second disciple, Fiachna, Mochuda said:--"Your resurrection will not be in this place though I have made you a cell here; you will have three further abiding places, nevertheless it will be with your own companion, Aodhan, that your remains will rest and your resurrection will be in the territory of Ui Torna, and it is from you that the place will get its name." For this Aodhan alluded to Mochuda likewise built another cell in the land of Ui Torna close by Slieve Luachra, and speaking prophetically he said to him: "The remains of your fellow-disciple, Fiachna, will be carried to you hither and from him will this place be named." That statement has been verified, for the church is now called Cill-Fiachna and it was first called Cill-Aeghain. Concerning other persons, Mochuda prophesied various other things, all of them have come to pass.
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Mochuda had in his monastery twelve exceedingly perfect disciples ... Fachtna Coinceann ... The virtue of these monks surpassed belief and Mochuda wished to mitigate their austerities before their death. He therefore built separate cells for them that they might have some comfort in their old age
141:, in 630. By the most perfect spirit of obedience he laid the foundation of a most sublime gift of prayer and all virtue. He is titular saint of the parish of Kill-Fiachna, in the diocess of 322: 95:, which means raven. It was given to several legendary and early historical characters. Fiachna is mentioned as a disciple of 75:(or Fiachan, Fiachina, Fianchne; died 630) was an early Irish monk who was venerated as a saint. His feast day is 29 April. 134: 100: 44: 107:. Saint Fiachna or Fechno of Agha-luing may be this saint, or may be another whose feast day in 13 March. 267: 173: 138: 300:, Translated from the Irish with an introduction by Rev. P. Power, M.R.I.A. University College, Cork 327: 96: 295: 285: 60: 251: 316: 116: 142: 130: 88: 84: 91:, Fiacha, Fiachnae, Fiach, Fechín, Feichín) comes from the Old Irish 253:
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Lismore, County Waterford
Feast
Fiachna
Fiachra
Mo Chutu of Lismore
Lismore, County Waterford
Alban Butler
Munster
Lismore
Carthagh the younger
Ardfert
Féchín of Fore


Butler 1821
Fiachna name doctor


Saint Mochuda
O'Hanlon 1873
The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints
"Fiachna"
Lives of the Irish saints
The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
Categories
Medieval saints of Munster
630 deaths

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