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Saint Mosiloc of Cloonatten, July 13

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July 13 is the commemoration of a County Wexford saint, Mosiloc of Cloonatten. Canon O'Hanlon brings us an account of him, as with many Irish saints there is an affectionate personal pronoun, mo, my, added to his name, Siloc. I note  that there is a typo at the beginning of the paragraph where June 13 has been cited instead of July for the saint's feast day. I have also added the translation of the entries from the Martyrology of Oengus and from the Scottish Kalendar of Drummond from the footnotes into the main text:

St. Mosiloc or Mothiolog, of Cloonatten, Parish of Kilmichael Oge, County of Wexford.

The name of this holy man, as Siloc, is entered in the "Feilire" of St. Oengus, at the 13th of June. There he receives a high encomium:

" Sweet the name with splendour
of Evangelus the sainted, 
with my Siloc of the kings, 
he went into the noble realm of peace."

— "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy," Irish Manuscript Series, vol. i., part i. On the Calendar of Oengus, p. cx.

In a commentary added, he is styled and identified as " my Siloc, i.e., of Cell Mo-siloc in Ui-Degad, in Ui-Cennseliag." Hence, it should seem, that Siloc was simply his name, and it is entered Silog in the Calendar of Cashel. Veneration was given to Mosiloc Cluana Daethcain, at the 13th of July, as appears in the Martyrology of Tallagh. In Rev. Dr. Kelly's edition of the Martyrology of Tallagh, this place is identified  with Clonkeen, Queen's County. His name and place are elsewhere differently entered. At this same date, we find in the Martyrology of Donegal, Mothiolog, of Cill Mothiolog, in Ui-Ceinnsealaigh, or Mothiolog, of Cluain Aithghin. This place is Cloonatten, in the parish of Kilmichael Oge, in the barony of Gorey, and county of Wexford. There is a curious old church in that locality. In the Kalendar of Drummond  the feast of this saint is inserted, at the present date. Thus: "13 iii. Idus. In Hibernia Sancti Confessoris Mosiloc."—Bishop Forbes'"Kalendars of Scottish Saints", p. 18. There is an entry of Mosilocus, at the 13th of July, in the work of the Bollandists. Father O'Sheerin supplied them with the notice inserted.

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