Molaise

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Saint Molaise's cave on Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, decorated with Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags.
Saint Molaise's cave on Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, decorated with Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags.

Saint Molaise, born in the 6th century, also called Saint Laisren or Lazerian, meaning light. Born in Ireland and raised in Scotland as a young man he lived the life of a hermit on Holy Isle (off the Isle of Arran). He later visited Rome as a pilgrim and was subsequently said to have been ordained a bishop there. On return to Ireland he founded a church at Old Leighlin in County Carlow and eventually became abbot of a local monastery. Saint Molaise's feast day is celebrated on 18 April.

Molaise died in 570[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Illustrated Dictionary of Irish History. Mac Annaidh, S. (ed). Gill and Macmillan, Dublin. 2001
  • Colum Kenny, Molaise, abbot of Leighlin and hermit of holy island: the life and legacy of St Laisren in Ireland and Scotland. Morrigan Books. 1998. ISBN 0907677673


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