Biography
Bécán
About Bécán
Bécán is remembered as the founder of a monastery at Kill-Beggan in Ireland. The church account also connects his name with the church and parish of Imleach-Becain.
His royal family connections belong to received tradition rather than a documented genealogy.
Some lists place him among the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. The same biography warns that these lists vary and do not prove that every named saint studied under Finnian of Clonard.
His commemoration is April 5. The remembered foundations provide a clearer subject than an invented sequence of journeys or a precise lifespan.
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