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St. Gerald
Bishop of Mayo, an English monk, date of birth unknown; died 13 March, 731;
followed St. Colman, after the Synod of Whitby (664), to Ireland, and settled in
Innisboffin, in 668. Dissensions arose, after a time, between the Irish and the
English monks, and St. Colman decided to found a separate monastery for the
thirty English brethren. Thus arose the Abbey of Mayo (Magh Eo, the yew plain),
known as Mayo of the Saxons
, with St. Gerald as the first abbot, in 670. St.
Bede writes: This monastery is to this day (731) occupied by English monks …
and contains an exemplary body who gathered there from England, and live by the
labour of their own hands (after the manner of the early Fathers), under a rule
and canonical abbot, leading chaste and single lives.
Although St. Gerald was a
comparatively young man, he proved a wise ruler, and governed May until 697,
when, it is said, he resigned in favour of St. Adamnan. Some authors hold that
St. Adamnan celebrated the Roman Easter at Mayo, in 703, and then went to Skreen,
in Hy Fiachrach, and that after his departure the monks prevailed on St. Gerald
to resume the abbacy. The Saxon saint continued to govern the Abbey and Diocese
of Mayo till his death. His feast is celebrated on 13 March. Mayo, though merged
in Tuam for a time, remained a separate see until 1579.
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