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Malachy, St, also called St Maol Maedoc c.1094-1148
Irish prelate and reformer

Born in Armagh, he became abbot of Bangor (1121), Bishop of Connor (1125) and, in 1134, Archbishop of Armagh. He substituted Roman for Celtic liturgy, and renewed the use of the sacraments. In 1139 he went to Rome, visiting St Bernard at Clairvaux. On his return (1142), he introduced the Cistercian Order into Ireland. In 1148 he once more went to France, and died at Clairvaux in St Bernard's arms. The so-called 'Prophecies of St Malachy', first published in Lignum Vitae (1595) by the Flemish Benedictine Arnold Wion, are spurious. He was canonized in 1190 - the first papal canonization of an Irishman. His feast day is 3 November.