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Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VIII: August. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.

August 19

St. Mochteus, Bishop and Confessor

 
HE was a Briton, a disciple of St. Patrick, and the first bishop of Louth, in Ireland. He died in 535, and is called Mochta Lugh. See Adamnan, in the life of St. Columba, and Usher’s Antiq. Britann., c. 8.  1