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Cainnech of Aghaboe (515/16–600), also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Sanctus Canicus, was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period.
Translation and notes by Gilbert Márkus October 2018. This document contains the text of Vita Sancti Cainnechi, ‘The Life of Saint Cainnech’, with a new translation and some comment and discussion. The Latin text appears in the Codex Salmanticensis, a fourteenth-century manuscript formerly in Salamanca (whence its name) and now in Brussels.
Cainnech of Aghaboe, also known as Saint Canice or Kenneth, is a celebrated figure in both Irish and Scottish Christianity. He was an important 6th-century Irish saint, who made significant contributions towards spreading Catholicism in Ireland.
Cainnech of Aghaboe (515/16–600), also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Sanctus Canicus, was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period.
Nov 9, 2022 · Read about Cainnech of Aghaboe, also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland and Latin Sanctus Canicus. Canice was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary in the early medieval period.
Today Aghaboe is a hamlet in County Laois where pilgrims still visit the ruins of the ancient monastery and an Anglican church (Church of Ireland) is dedicated to its patron, St. Canice (Kenneth). A Catholic church in the neighbouring village of Clough is dedicated to him as well.
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St Cainnech is a sixth-century Irish saint who is now most famously associated with the cathedral church of Ossory at Kilkenny. He has several dedications in Scotland. His Life brings him to Tiree, Iona and Pictland - trans Dorsum Britannie ambularet (Heist 1965, 188).
