Buite

Irish saint

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Also known as Buite mac Bronach · Buite mac Bronaig · Buíte mac Brónaig · Buíte · Boetius

Died: 520
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1.Stated in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Citizenship: Ireland

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Buíte, also known as Buíte mac Bronach (Brónaig), and Boetius, was a sixth-century Irish monastic. He was born near Mellifont, Louth; visited Wales and Italy; returned through Germany and Scotland to Antrim, and thence to Louth, where he built Monasterboice, i.e. the Monastery of Buite.

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Feast day: December 7
Canonization status: saint
Catholic saint
Sex or gender: male

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