Colman mac Cathbaid is a sixth-century Irish saint who was an abbot and bishop of
Kilroot
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(Co. Antrim), a minor see which was afterwards incorporated in the Diocese of Connor. He may have given his name to Kilmackevat (Co. Antrim).
In the ''Life of Mac Nise'' in the
Codex Salmanticensis The ''Codex Salmanticensis'' (Brussels, Royal Library 7672–4) is a medieval Irish manuscript containing an extensive collection of Irish saints' Lives, now in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. It was culled by the compilers from various so ...
, the young Colman is saved from death by Bishop
Mac Nisse of Connor
Saint Mac Nisse (died 514) was an early Irish saint known as the founder and first bishop-abbot of Connor (Irish: '' Condere'', in what is now Co. Antrim). In the ''Tripartite Life of St. Patrick'', he is said to have been a disciple of St. Olcán ...
, and instructed in the Holy Scriptures.
Colman was a disciple of
St. Ailbe. At the direction of Ailbe, Colmán founded a church on the northern shore of
Lough Laoigh. According to
Bishop Healy, Colmán of Kilroot was the uncle of
Colmán of Dromore.
Colman's feast has been kept on 16 October.
''The Irish ecclesiastical record'', Vol. 5, 1869, p. 304
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Medieval Irish saints
6th-century deaths
6th-century Christian saints
Medieval saints of Ulster
People from County Antrim
6th-century Irish bishops
Year of birth unknown