ST. KENTIGERNA, WIDOW.

SHE is commemorated on the 7th of January, in the Aberdeen Breviary,

from which we learn, that she was of royal blood, daughter of Kelly,

prince of Leinster in Ireland, as Colgan proves from ancient monuments.

She was mother of the holy abbot St. Foelan, or Felan. After the death

of her husband, she left Ireland, and consecrated her to God in a

religious state, and lived in great austerity and humility, and died on

the 7th of January, in the year 728. Adam King informs us that a famous

parish church bears her name at Locloumont, in Inchelroch, a small

island into which she retired some time before her death, that she might

with greater liberty give herself up to heavenly meditation. See Brev.

Aberden. et Colgan ad 7 Jan. p. 23.

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