Molaise of Leighlin
Irish saint
Feast: 18 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Molaise of Leighlin, also Laisrén or Laserian (died ca. 639), was an early Irish saint and abbot of Lethglenn or Leithglenn, now Old Leighlin in County Carlow, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th and 7th centuries. In Scotland, he is known as "Molaise" while in Ireland he is revered as "Laserian".
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q3066480 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Molaise of Leighlin (CC BY-SA)
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