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St. Maedoc

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(MOEDHOG, MOGUE, ÆDDAN FOEDDOG, AIDUS, HUGH)

First Bishop of Ferns, in Wexford, b. about 558, on an island in Brackley Lough, County Cavan; d. 31 January, 626. He was the son of Sedna, a chieftain of Connaught, and of his wife, Eithne. Even in his early years the fame of his sanctity was widespread and, when many came to the young man and desired to become his disciples, he fled from Ireland to Wales. Here he became the pupil of St. David and is named as one of his three most faithful disciples. Many miracles are recorded of St. Maedoc, both in his childhood and during his sojourn in Wales. After many years he returned to Ireland accompanied by a band of disciples, and settled at Brentrocht in Leinster. He founded several monasteries in that district, the greatest being Ferms, which was built on land given to him by Brandubh, King of Leinster. Here a synod was held, at which he was elected and consecrated bishop, about 598. St. Maedoc of Ferns must not be confounded either with St. Madoc (or Maidoc), the son of Gildas (28 Feb.) who also lived in the sixth century and was the founder of Llanfadog in Wales; or with St. Modoc the Culdee, who lived in the third or fourth century.

Sources

Acta SS., Jan., II, 1111-20; BOASE in Dict. Christ. Biog., s.v. ; KILMADOCK, St. Mogue's or St. Ninian's Island in Notes and Queries, 8th series, IV, 421; Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, ed. REES (Llandovery, 1853), 232-50; MCGOVERN, St. Mogue's or St. Ninian's Island in Notes and Queries, 8th series, V, 151-2; STANTON, Menology of England and Wales (London, 1887) 42; Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae, ed. PLUMMER (Oxford, 1910), I, lxxv-lxxvii, II, 141-63, 295-311.

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APA citation. Toke, L. (1910). St. Maedoc. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09520a.htm

MLA citation. Toke, Leslie. "St. Maedoc." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09520a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph P. Thomas.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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