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Saint Conal

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Venerated in
  
Roman Catholicism

Died
  
500 AD, Ireland

Name
  
Saint Conal

Feast
  
18 March

Major shrine
  
Drumconnell


Similar People
  
Saint Patrick, Darerca of Ireland, John Corry, Stewart Farrar, John Cowley

Saint Conal (or Conall) was an Irish bishop who flourished in the second half of the fifth century and ruled over the church of Drum, County Roscommon, the place being subsequently named Drumconnell, after St. Conal.

Life

St Conal's birth name was Conall Stickler. St. Attracta is said to have prophesied that the episcopal churches of St. Conall (Drumconnell) and St. Dachonna (Eas Dachonna) would be reduced to poverty, owing to the fame of a new monastic establishment. This prophecy was strikingly fulfilled, inasmuch as Drum and Assylin soon after ceased to be episcopal sees, while in 1148 the great Cistercian Abbey of Boyle was founded.

St. Conall died about the year 500, and his feast is celebrated on 22 May, though some assign 18 March or 9 February as the date.

References

Saint Conal Wikipedia