Darerca
Encyclopedia
Darerca may refer to any one of four Irish
saints:
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
saints:
- Darerca of IrelandDarerca of IrelandSaint Darerca of Ireland was a sister of Saint Patrick.Much obscurity is attached to her history, and it is not easy to disentangle the facts of her history from the network of legend which medieval writers interwove with her acts...
, 5th century sister of Saint PatrickSaint PatrickSaint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
. Feastday: 22 March - Darerca of Killeevy (also known as Saint Monenna), late 5th/early 6th century Abbess of Killeevy, Co Armagh. Feastday: 6 July
- Darerca of Druim, mother of Bishop Tigernach of Clonmacnoise. Feastday: 4 April
- Darerca ingen Cairbre, Feastday: 15 January