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Saint Moluag, (c.530 - 592),〔''The Oxford Dictionary of Saints'', p.343〕 (also known as ''Lua'', ''Luan'', ''Luanus'', ''Lugaidh'', ''Moloag'', ''Molluog'', ''Molua'', ''Murlach'', ''Malew''),〔(Saint of the Day, 25 June: ''Moloc of Mortlach'' ) ''SaintPatrickDC.org''. Retrieved on 6 March 2012〕〔''Irish Saints in Great Britain'', p.76-77〕 was a Scottish missionary, and a contemporary of Saint Columba, who evangelized the Picts of Scotland in the sixth century.〔http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5153 Retrieved on 14 May 2007〕 Saint Moluag was the patron saint of Argyll as evidenced by a charter in 1544, from the Earl of Argyll, which states "''in honour of God Omnipotent, the blessed Virgin, and Saint Moloc, our patron''".〔(Clan Livingstone - Charter of 1544 )〕 ==Life== Moluag, born in Ireland,〔 was an Irish noble of the Dál nAraide〔''Lismore in Alba'', p39ff〕 and was educated in Bangor, Ireland〔 under Saint Comgall.〔 Tradition states that the rock on which Moluag stood, detached itself from the Irish coast and he drifted across to the island of Lismore, in Loch Linnhe.〔Barrett, M, ''A Calendar of Scottish Saints'', p.97-99〕 According to the Irish Annals, in 562 Moluag beat Saint Columba in a race to the large island of the Lyn of Lorn in Argyll. Now called the Isle of Lismore, WS Skene claims it was the sacred island of the Western Picts and the burial place of their kings whose capital was at Beregonium, across the water at Benderloch. Moluag was accompanied to Scotland by Comgall (like Moluag, an Irish Pict), who presented him to King Brude of the Northern Picts to obtain permission to carry on his mission of spreading Christianity. It is speculated that King Brude preferred Moluag to Columba because of Columba's close relation to the Gaelic leadership of Dál Riata, this could explain why Molaug evangelized largely Pictish areas and Columba stayed within the sphere of Dál Riata influence. After founding an island monastery on the Isle of Lismore,〔 Moluag went on to found two other great centres in the land of the Picts at Rosemarkie and Mortlach. These were his three centres of teaching, and it is significant that all three were to become the seats of the Roman Catholic Sees of the Isles, Ross and Aberdeen. It is claimed in the biography of Saint Malachy that Moluag was the founder of 100 monasteries in Dark Ages Scotland. Moluag died in Rosemarkie, Scotland on 25 June 592. The Annals of Ulster record the death of ''Lugaid of Les Mór'' in 592:〔http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100001A/ Retrieved on 19 May 2007〕 "''Obitus Lugide Lis Moer''."〔http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/index.html Retrieved on 19 May 2007〕 Moluag is said to have been buried at Rosemarkie on the Moray Firth, though his remains were later transported to Lismore, and honoured in the cathedral which bore his name.〔 The Coarb, or successor, of Saint Moluag, is the Livingstone chief of the Clan MacLea. This Livingstone family of Lismore had long been the hereditary keepers of the crozier of the saint.〔 The bell of Saint Moluag was in existence until the sixteenth century when it disappeared during the Reformation.〔 An ancient bell found at Kilmichael Glassary, Argyll was thought to have been the lost bell.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Moluag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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