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in which a stag, being hunted by King Gueric, came into the church for shelter and laid at Ninnoc's feet— on seeing this Gueric stayed at the church for seven days praying, and afterward granted the settlement more land, 300 horses and more cattle. There are accounts of the veneration of St Ninnoc in
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and Abbess, is celebrated on 4 June in
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was recorded in the 12th century, almost 700 years after she lived, and existing scholarship dates to the 19th and early 20th centuries. In
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