Saint Mo Ling (614–697), also named Moling Luachra, was the second Bishop of Ferns in Ireland and has been said to be "one of the four great prophets of Erin". He founded a monastery at St Mullin's, County Carlow. His feast day is 17 June. Traditions about him are preserved in two manuscripts, The Birth and Life of St. Moling, and the Borama, both of which expound on how he ended a cattle tributary imposed by the kings of Tara on the kings of Leighin, in retribution for an incident when the son of the king of Leighin went on a cattle raid to Clonfert, killing several princesses in the act.

See also

Eithne and Sodelb

References

External links

Saint Moling et le Lépreux, a story about Mo Ling and a leper, edited from UCD Franciscan Manuscript A9 and translated into French by Paul Grosjean S.J. at Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae

Mo Ling

Further reading

7th-century Christian saints

7th-century Irish bishops

696 deaths

Medieval saints of Leinster

Holy wells in Ireland

614 births

Mo Ling