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Ailbe (early 6th century), Irish bishop. Little is known of his life. He obtained for Enda the gift of an Aran Island (Co. Galway) from King Angus of Munster; he is reputed to have written a monastic Rule; above all, he was a travelling evangelist who preached mainly in southern Ireland. He is the reputed founder of the see of Imlech (Emly, Co. Tipperary).

Legendary accretions credit him with having been suckled by a she-wolf, and with having retired, late in life, to the mythical Land of Promise, a blend of the Christian Paradise and the Celtic happy other-world. Feast: 12 (13) September.

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  • V.S.H., II, xxviii–xxxi. 46–64; L. Gougaud, Christianity in Celtic Lands (1932); J. O'Neill, ‘The Rule in Ailbe of Emly’, Eriu, iii (1907), 92–115
 
 

Ailbhe
[cf. Irish albho-, white; Gaulish Albiorix, world-king]

The name of both men and women in Old Irish narrative, including twelve warriors of the Fianna in the Fenian Cycle and two saints. Incorrectly anglicized as Albert or Bertie.

 
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Saint Ailbe
Born 5th Century,
Died 528
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast September 12
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Saint Ailbe is sometimes claimed as one of the pre-Patrician saints, but the annals note his death in 528. A tradition held that he went to Rome and was ordained bishop by the Pope. He founded the monastery of Emly, which became very important in Munster. A ninth-century Rule bears his name.

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