Of those bearing this name it is difficult to define what properly belongs to each.<\/p>\n
(1) Bishop of Ard-Braccan, commemorated December 6. He was of the race of Eoghain, son of Niall, and bishop of Meath; but the name of his place is derived from Brecan of Ara and Killbraccan.<\/p>\n
(2) Of Cillmor-Dithruibh, commemorated August 9, is one of the nineteen saints of Kilmore, near the Shannon, Co. Roscommon.<\/p>\n
(3) Of Cluain-catha and Ard-Bracan, July 16. In Mart. Doneg. he is Bracan of Cluain-catha in Inis-Eoghain, bishop of Ard-Brecain and abbot of Magh- bile. Another dedication may be April 29.<\/p>\n
(4) Of Ros-tuire September 17. Mart. Doneq. calls him Bracan, and his name is still found in Killbraghan, County Kilkenny. In Colgan’s Life of St. Abban an account is given’of a meeting between the two saints Abban and Brecan, the latter being abbot of the two monasteries in the region of Ossory, Ros-tuire and Cluaini-imurchuir; but we must doubt the legend.<\/p>\n
(5) Bishop May 1. This was Brecan of Ara and of Cill-Breacain, in Thomond, the son of Eochaidh Balldearg. In the island of Inishmore there was a beautiful parish: church, called Templum Brecani (Colgan, Acta Sanctorum, page 715). This Temple-braccan was St. Brecan’s principal establishment; but he also founded and gave his name to Ard-Braccan, the diocesan seat of the bishop of Meath. <\/p>\n
Brecan (Bracan, Brocan, Or Berchan) Of those bearing this name it is difficult to define what properly belongs to each. (1) Bishop of Ard-Braccan, commemorated December 6. He was of the race of Eoghain, son of Niall, and bishop of Meath; but the name of his place is derived from Brecan of Ara and Killbraccan. … Continue reading “Brecan (Bracan, Brocan, Or Berchan)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}