ST. BLAITHMAIC,

SON of an Irish king, and abbot in the isle of Hij, in Scotland. He was

martyred by Danish pirates, to whom he refused to betray the treasures

of the church, in 793. See his life, by Wilfridus Strabo, in Canisius

Antiq. {} &c.

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