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Conainne
Irish missionary and saint
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Feast: 8 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Conainne, also known as Dachonna, (fl. c. 500) was an Irish missionary and saint. The Irish terms of endearment, mo and do, were regularly added to the names of Irish saints and secular people, hence the origin of her diminutive pseudonym, Dachonna.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q132489381 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Conainne (CC BY-SA)
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