Saint Gerald of Mayo

Memorial

• 13 March

Profile

Monk at Lindisfarne, England. Friend of Saint Colman of Lindesfarne. Monk at Innisboffin, Ireland in 668. Abbot at Mayo of the Saxons abbey in 670, a house for English monks in Ireland; he there served until 697 when he resigned in favour of Saint Adamnan. Saw the supplanting of the Celtic rite with the Roman rite in his abbey. Founded the abbey of Elytheria in Connaught, Ireland; of Teaghna-Saxon; and a convent led by his sister Segretia. May have been bishop of Mayo, Ireland, but records vary.

Born

• Northumbria, England

Died

• 13 March 731 in Galway, Ireland of natural causes
• buried at Mayo, Ireland

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against plague

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Gerald of Mayo“. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 March 2013. Web. 22 May 2013. <>