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Venerable Comgall of Bangor

Also known as Comhghall · Comgall of Ireland

A father of early Irish monasticism who founded the great monastery of Bangor, whose strict rule formed many missionaries, among them St Columban.

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Pre-schism Western saint.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints