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Saint Maelruain (- c.791)
Celebrated: 7 Jul (Ireland)In 769 he founded the monastery at Tallaght, in County Dublin, Ireland. Together with St Aengus he wrote a detailed Rule for the community, which is an important document in the history of early monasticism.
Blessed Peter To Rot
Celebrated: 7 Jul (Australia)He was born in 1912 at Rakunai, a village on the Melanesian island of New Britain, today part of Papua New Guinea. His parents belonged to the region’s first generation of Catholics. He was a pious boy and the parish priest thought that he should study for the priesthood, but his father […]
Saint Moninne (c.432 - c.518)
Celebrated: 6 Jul (Ireland)She founded a community of female hermits in County Armagh; there is a tradition that she received the veil from St Patrick. Late in her life she founded the convent at Killeavy, where she died.