St. Mochoemoc
Also known as Kennoch, Mo-Chaomhog, Mochaemhog, Pulcherius, Vulcanius
Mochoemoc of Leamokevoge
Feast day: March 13
Born in Munster, Ireland
Death: 656
Abbot founder of Liath Mochoemoc Monastery at Tipperary, Ireland. He was the son of Bevan and Nessa and the brother or nephew of St. Ita. Listed as Machaemhog, Puicherius, or Vuicherius, , Mochoemoc founded Arderin Abbey and others before he died.
Mochoemoc was raised by his aunt, Saint Ita, and educated by Saint Comgall in the Bangor Abbey, County Down, where he also entered religious life. Comgall sent him to establish a house at Arderin. Later Mochoemoc founded and became abbot of the great monastery of Liath-Mochoemoc Liath-mor, now Leamokevoge, in County Tipperary, around which a large town was raised, which still bears that name. The supposed Scottish Kevoca, titular of the church of Quivox, is really the Irishman Mochoemoc
Also known as Kennoch, Mo-Chaomhog, Mochaemhog, Pulcherius, Vulcanius
Mochoemoc of Leamokevoge
Feast day: March 13
Born in Munster, Ireland
Death: 656
Abbot founder of Liath Mochoemoc Monastery at Tipperary, Ireland. He was the son of Bevan and Nessa and the brother or nephew of St. Ita. Listed as Machaemhog, Puicherius, or Vuicherius, , Mochoemoc founded Arderin Abbey and others before he died.
Mochoemoc was raised by his aunt, Saint Ita, and educated by Saint Comgall in the Bangor Abbey, County Down, where he also entered religious life. Comgall sent him to establish a house at Arderin. Later Mochoemoc founded and became abbot of the great monastery of Liath-Mochoemoc Liath-mor, now Leamokevoge, in County Tipperary, around which a large town was raised, which still bears that name. The supposed Scottish Kevoca, titular of the church of Quivox, is really the Irishman Mochoemoc
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