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Malachy (/ ˈ m æ l ə k i /; Middle Irish: Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair; Modern Irish: Maelmhaedhoc Ó Morgair; Latin: Malachias) (1094 – 2 November 1148) is an Irish saint who was Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and an alleged vision of 112 popes later attributed to the apocryphal (i.e. of doubtful authenticity) Prophecy of the Popes.
St. Malachy (born 1094, Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]—died November 2/3, 1148, Clairvaux, France; canonized 1190; feast day November 3) was a celebrated archbishop and papal legate who became a dominant figure of church reform in 12th-century Ireland. A fraudulent prophecy concerning the succession of popes was falsely ascribed to ...
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Nov 2, 2011 · Saint Malachy is the patron of Ireland and his feast day is November 3 rd. He is typically represented with either a book or encountering his sister's dead spirit as seen in popular St. Malachy Medals. St. Malachy died in the arms of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, his biographer. He was the spiritual teacher of Blessed Christian O'Conarchy.
Also listed as Mael Maedoc ua Morgair or Maolrnhaodhog ua Morgair, Malachy was born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1095. He was ordained by St. Cellach or Celsus of Armagh in 1132 and studied under Bishop St. Maichius of Lismore. Malachy reformed ecclesiastical discipline and replaced the Celtic liturgy with the Roman when he served as abbot of Bangor.
Note 1. Maol-Maodhog was the name given to St. Malachy at the font of baptism. It is a compound which merits explanation, as it relates to a pious custom among the ancient Irish.—Maol, in the ecclesiastical acceptation of that adjective, signifies tonsured; and prefixed to Maodhog, it denotes one tonsured, i. e. devoted to the patronage of St. Maodhog, who was the first bishop of Ferns, and ...
May 29, 2018 · Malachy, St (c. 1094–1148). Malachy was a great reforming bishop in Ireland, when hereditary succession linked church with clan, sacraments were neglected, and old customs frequently prevailed over canon law. His own nomination as archbishop of Armagh, 1129, was strongly opposed by his predecessor's kin and took several years to resolve.
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Jun 8, 2024 · Malachy was called the Irish of the Irish—but his official biographer was St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and it was in Bernard’s arms that he died in 1148. Before the Vatican systemized saint-making in the late 12 th Century, Irish saints, e.g. Patrick, Brigid, and Columcille, were holy folk with a powerful following, “saints by acclamation.”
