Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VIII: August. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
August 19St. Mochteus, Bishop and Confessor
| HE was a Briton, a disciple of St. Patrick, and the first bishop of Louth, in Ireland. He died in 535, and is called Mochta Lugh. See Adamnan, in the life of St. Columba, and Usher’s Antiq. Britann., c. 8. | 1 |