Saint Maelruan

Also known as

• Maolruain
• Melruan
• Molruan

Memorial

• 7 July

Profile

Founder and first Abbot of Tamalcht Abbey, County of Dublin, Ireland in 769 on land given by Donnchadh, King of Leinster. With Saint Aengus the Culdee he wrote the Rule of Célidhé Dé, “a minute series of rules for the regulation of the lives of the Célidhé Dé, their prayers, their preachings, their conversations, their confessions, their communions, their ablutions, their fastings, their abstinences, their relaxations, their sleep, their celebrations of the Mass, and so forth”.

Died

• 791 at Ulster, Ireland

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Maelruan”. Saints.SQPN.com. 10 March 2010. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-maelruan/>