Benignus of Armagh

Saint

Benignus of Armagh
Born392
County Meath Ireland
Died467
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast9 November
His foundation of Kilbennan in East Galway, close to Tuam, made him the patron of Connacht.[1]

Benignus of Armagh (died 467) was the son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in the part of Ireland that is now called County Meath.

  1. ^ Farmer, David (2004). Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-19-860949-0.