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Also known as

• Christianus
• Giolla Criost Ua Condoirche

Memorial

• 18 March

Profile

Spritual student and archdeacon of Saint Malachy O’More at Armagh, Ireland. Received the Cistercian habit at Clairvaux, France in 1139 from Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Abbot of the first Cistercian monastery in Ireland in 1142. Bishop of Lismore, Ireland in 1150. Papal legate for Ireland. In old age he retired to live as a prayerful monk at Odorney Abbey.

Born

• c.1100 at Bangor, County Down, Ireland

Died

• 1186 at Odorney Abbey, Abbeydorney, Ireland of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Christian O’Conarchy”. CatholicSaints.Info. 17 March 2010. Web. 28 January 2021. <http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-christian-oconarchy/>