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Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume IX: September. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.

September 7

St. Eunan, Bishop in Ireland

 
[First Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland, in the Province of Ulster.]  THE MONASTERY founded there by St. Columb, and restored by St. Adamnan, being converted into an episcopal see, St. Eunan was appointed to govern it. He is the titular saint of the Church, and a mass for his festival on the 7th of September is approved by Pope Clement XII. among the masses printed for the Irish churches, at Paris in 1734.  1