St abigail of ireland biography of martin

Irish saint

Saint Gobnait (fl.&#;6th century?), also known as Gobnat or Mo Gobnat or Abigail or Deborah, is the name of an early medieval female Irish saint whose church was Móin Mór, later Bairnech, in the village of Ballyvourney (Irish: Baile Bhuirne), County Cork in Ireland.^[3] She is associated with the Múscraige and her church and convent lay on the borders between the Múscraige Mittine and Eóganacht Locha Léin.^[3] Her feast day is February

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No hagiographicalLife is known to have described her life and miracles, but she appears in the Life of her senior companion St Abbán moccu Corbmaic,^[3] written in the early thirteenth century but known only through later recensions.

Saint Finbarr's Life implies that Gobnait's church belonged to Finbarr's foundation at Cork by alleging that it was not founded by her, but by one of his disciples.^[3] In spite of this, Gobnait's cult continued to thrive here and t