Jarlath of Cluainfois

June 6

Jarlath was educated by the Archbishop Benignus of Armagh.  After some time, Jarlath went to live in seclusion near Tuam, at a place called Cluainfois.  He founded a monastery, and it is now a chapel within the parish of Tuam.  He also opened a famous school, to which numbers flocked for education in piety and learning, among whom were St. Brendan, abbot of Clonfert and St. Coman, first bishop of Cloyne.  Jarlath was called from there to be consecrated the first bishop of Tuam.  He died of old age in the mid sixth century.  His relics were placed in a shrine in a church in Tuam.

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