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Gobnait

Irish saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 11 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
unknown
Died
501
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Gobnait (fl. 6th century?), also known as Gobnat or Mo Gobnat or Abigail or Deborah, is the name of an early medieval female Irish saint whose church was Móin Mór, later Bairnech, in the village of Ballyvourney (Irish: Baile Bhuirne), County Cork in Ireland. She is associated with the Múscraige and her church and convent lay on the borders between the Múscraige Mittine and Eóganacht Locha Léin. Her feast day is February 11.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q5575577 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Gobnait (CC BY-SA)

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