BAEDAN, Saint, Abbot of Jona. - He was the most illustrious of the numerous Irish saints of this name (at least about fifteen). Son of Brennan, of the royal family of Connal Guban, b. in 536. He was a cousin of St. Columba and the foremost of his 12 disciples. With him in 563 he came to Scotland, into the kingdom of Dalriada, founded by the "Scots" of northern Ireland. He was first abbot in the monastery on the island of Tir-itha (Tyree), and when St. Columba died in 597, B. succeeded him in the government of the monastery of Iona or Hy, a well-known island to the northwest of Scotland, the center of the apostolic activity of St. Columba. The date of his death fluctuates between 598 and 600. He is commemorated on June 9.

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BIBL.: La Vita in Acta SS. Iunii, II, Paris 1867, pp. 233-235; numerous biographical notices are also found in the life of St. Columba, written by Adomnán (d. in 704), ibid., pp. 197-236. - C. de Smedt, Acta SS. Hiberniae, London 1888, pp. 871-878; A. Potthast, Bibliotheca histor. M. Aevi, II, Berlin 1896, p. 1191; F. Kenney, The sources of the early history of Ireland, I: Ecclesiastical, New York 1929, p. 434; F. O'Brian, s. v. in DHG, VI, col. 160.

Alberto Ghinato

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Baedan, Saint, Abbot of Jona

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