Dabheog

Dabheog [ ʲ o ː dav g] lived in the 5th century and is an Irish saint. His feast day in the Catholic Church is December 16. Alternative holidays include January 1 and July 24.

Biography

Biographical data of the saints are vague, however, indicate regional records indicate that he founder and abbot of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg, was in the 5th century (Irish Loch Dearg in what is now County Donegal on the border with County Fermanagh ). He was said to be of Welsh origin. According to some sources, however, two different saints named Dabheog be distinguished, a Dabheog the Elder as founders of monasteries in the 5th century and a Dabheog the Younger in the early 7th century, which is considered eigtlicher local patron. Dabheog is considered a disciple of St. Patrick. He was responsible for the Purgatory of St. Patrick on the island in Lough Derg.

Name

The actual name of the saint was probably Beoc. The names of many clerics ("my " ) or do ( "your " ) The Old Irish, according to custom were as a sign of sympathy with the possessive pronouns mo connected, so that the name forms Mobeoc / Mobheoc or Dabeoc / Dabheoc emerged. Under modified latter name he is known today. Anglicized forms of the name are Davoc and Davog. Was Latinized name as Dabeocus or Beanus.

Worship

He is regarded as the patron saint of Lough Derg. Many of today's pilgrimage rituals on Lough Derg are focused on the worship of the sacred Dabheog: the meditation on one of the Büßerbetten (remains of beehive huts), which is named after him, a hike to a nearby pre-Christian grave site from the Bronze Age on a mountain, as the Seedavoc Mountain ( Suí Dabheoig, " seat of the Dabheog " ) or as Davoc 's Chair ( Cathaoir Dabheoig, Dabheogs chair) is called. One of the boats, which brings pilgrims to stop Iceland, is named after him, as a valley above the Lough Erne. In the Annals of the Four Masters and the Annals of Ulster, a church retreat called Tearmonn Dabheog is mentioned on an island of Lough Derg.