Dabheog

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Dabheog in a glass painting by the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in Monaghan Cathedral .

Dabheog [ daˈvʲoːg ] lived in the 5th century and is an Irish saint . His feast day in the Catholic Church is December 16 . Alternative holidays include January 1st and July 24th.

biography

Biographical data of the saint are vague, but regional records indicate that he was the founder and abbot of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg ( Irish Loch Dearg ; in what is now County Donegal on the border with County Fermanagh ) in the 5th century. He is said to have been of Welsh origin. According to some sources, however, there are two different saints named Dabheog, a Dabheog the elder as the founder of the monastery in the 5th century and a Dabheog the younger in the early 7th century, who is considered the actual local patron. Dabheog is considered a student of St. Patrick . He was responsible for the purgatory of St. Patrick on the island in Lough Derg.

Surname

The real name of the saint was probably Beoc . According to the old Irish custom, the names of many clergymen were combined with the possessive pronouns mo ("my") or do ("your") as a sign of affection , so that the name forms Mobeoc / Mobheoc / Mobheóg or Dabeoc / Dabheoc / Dobheóg arose. He is also known by the name Beoaidh . Anglicized forms of the name are Davoc and Davog . Latinized name when it was Dabeocus , Abeogus , Boet (i) us or Beanus .

Adoration

Boat Davog on Lough Derg

He is considered the patron saint of Lough Derg. Many of today's pilgrimage rituals at Lough Derg are aimed at the veneration of St. Dabheog: meditation on one of the penitent beds (remains of beehive huts ) named after him, a hike to a nearby pre-Christian grave site from the Bronze Age on a mountain, which is referred to as Seedavoc Mountain ( Suí Dabheoig , "Seat of Dabheog") or Davoc's Chair ( Cathaoir Dabheoig , Dabheog's chair). One of the boats that take pilgrims to Station Island is named after him, as is a valley above Lough Erne . In the annals of the four masters and the annals of Ulster , a church refuge called Tearmonn Dabheog (today Tearmann Mhic Craith / Termon Magrath after the family of the owner of the church property ) is mentioned on an island of Lough Derg.

The heather plant Daboecia cantabrica , usually referred to in German as Irish heather , is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Duffy: The Stained Glass . In: Eltin Griffin (Ed.): A Cathedral Renewed: St Macartan's, Monaghan . The Columba Press, Blackrock 1998, ISBN 1-85607-251-7 , pp. 75-84 , p. 78 .
  2. ^ Victor Turner and Edith Turner: Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. Columbia University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-231-15790-2 , pp. 118-119
  3. ^ Joseph McGuinne: St. Patrick's Purgatory: Lough Derg. Columba Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85607-295-3 , p. 18
personal data
SURNAME Dabheog
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beoc; Dabeoc; Dabheoc; Mobeoc; Mobheoc; Mobheog; Davog; St. Davog; Davoc; Dabeocus; Beanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot, saint
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century or 5th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century or 6th century