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Saint Mo Ling (614–697), also named Moling Luachra, was the second
Bishop of Ferns The Bishop of Ferns () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishopr ...
in Ireland and has been said to be "one of the four great prophets of Erin". He founded a monastery at
St Mullin's St Mullins (, formerly anglicised as ''Timoling'' or ''Tymoling'' - 'homestead of Moling')St Mullin's
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, County Carlow. His feast day is 17 June.A Compendium of Irish Biography
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See also

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Eithne and Sodelb Eithne and her sister Sodelb are two relatively obscure Irish saints from Leinster who are supposed to have flourished in the 5th century. They are commemorated together in the Irish martyrologies on 29 March, though 2 and 15 January were also mar ...


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Saint Moling et le Lépreux
', a story about Mo Ling and a leper, edited from UCD Franciscan Manuscript A9 an

by
Paul Grosjean Father Paul Grosjean, SJ (26 May 1900 – 13 June 1964) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, Bollandist, and Celtic scholar. Born in Uccle, Grosjean studied at St Michael College, Brussels before becoming a Jesuit priest in 1917. He was selected by Hippo ...
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moling 7th-century Christian saints 7th-century Irish bishops 696 deaths Medieval saints of Leinster Holy wells in Ireland 614 births