SAINT CELLACH

St. Cellach

Cellach of Armagh
Also known as Ceilach, Keilach
Feast day: April 1
Birth: 1080
Death: 1129
Last hereditary archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, who named St. Malachy as his successor when he died on April 1 at Ardpatrick, in Munster. He was called Cellach Mc Aedh, a native of Ireland, possibly a Benedictine of Glastonbury, also called Celsus. Cellach taught at Oxford, England, until 1106, when he became the archbishop of Armagh at the age of twenty-six, serving there with distinction.