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St. Íte of Killeedy

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Feastday: May 15
Patron: Ireland; abbesses; religious women
Birth: c. 480
Death: c. 570

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Saint Íte of Killeedy was an Irish abbess and one of the great spiritual mothers of the early Irish Church. She founded a monastery at Killeedy and was renowned for wisdom, prayer, hospitality, and the Christian education of those entrusted to her care. Her disciples remembered her as a woman whose heart was filled with the love of God.

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