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Gerald of Mayo, the Glossary

Gerald of Mayo (died 13 March 732 AD) 1921.^[1]

34 relations: Aachen, Alcuin, Anglo-Saxons, Annals of the Four Masters, Armagh, Basil of Caesarea, Catholic Church, Christianity in the 9th century, Clonmacnoise, Colmán of Lindisfarne, Connacht, Connemara, Date of Easter, Eastern Orthodox Church, Enda Kenny, Galway, Glendalough, Inishbofin, County Galway, Iona, Ireland, John Colgan, Kildare, Lindisfarne, Mayo, County Mayo, Monastery of Mayo, Northumbria, Saint, Skreen, St Gerald's College, Castlebar, Synod of Whitby, Taoiseach, Transhumance, Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, York.
731 deaths
8th-century English people
8th-century Irish abbots
8th-century Irish bishops
Medieval saints of Connacht

Aachen

Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.

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Alcuin

Alcuin of York (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) or the Annals of the Four Masters (Annála na gCeithre Máistrí) are chronicles of medieval Irish history.

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Armagh

Armagh (Ard Mhacha,, "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.

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Basil of Caesarea

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (Hágios Basíleios ho Mégas; Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ; 330 – 1 or 2 January 378), was Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianity in the 9th century

In the 9th century, Christianity was spreading throughout Europe, being promoted especially in the Carolingian Empire, its eastern neighbours, Scandinavia, and northern Spain.

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Clonmacnoise (Irish: Cluain Mhic Nóis) is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon.

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Colmán of Lindisfarne

Colmán of Lindisfarne (605 – 18 February 675 AD) also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664. Gerald of Mayo and Colmán of Lindisfarne are Northumbrian saints.

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Connacht

Connacht or Connaught (Connachta or Cúige Chonnacht), is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland.

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Connemara

Connemara (Conamara) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland.

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Date of Easter

As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computation.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Enda Kenny

Enda Kenny (born 24 April 1951) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May to July 2014 and 2016 to 2017, Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2011, Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State at the Department of Labour and Department of Education with responsibility for Youth Affairs from 1986 to 1987.

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Galway

Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.

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Glendalough

Glendalough is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin.

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Inishbofin, County Galway

Inishbofin (derived from the Irish Inis Bó Finne meaning 'Island of the White Cow') is a small island off the coast of Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

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Iona

Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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John Colgan

John Colgan, OFM (Irish Seán Mac Colgan; c. 1592 – 15 January 1658), was an Irish Franciscan friar noted as a hagiographer and historian.

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Kildare

Kildare is a town in County Kildare, Ireland.

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Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.

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Mayo, County Mayo

Mayo or Mayo Abbey is a village in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Monastery of Mayo

The School of Mayo was an early Catholic monastery in Mayo, Ireland, founded by Saint Colmán of Lindisfarne, 668.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Skreen

Skreen is a small village and parish in County Sligo, Ireland.

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St Gerald's College, Castlebar

St Gerald's College is an Irish all-boys De La Salle secondary school located in Castlebar, County Mayo.

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Synod of Whitby

The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_of_Mayo

Also known as Gerald, Saint, Saint Gerald of Mayo.

Gerald of Mayo, the Glossary

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731 deaths

8th-century English people

8th-century Irish abbots

8th-century Irish bishops

Medieval saints of Connacht

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