Among the saints commemorated on December 31 is Lughna, described on the calendars as a deacon. The Martyrology of Tallaght lists the last day of December as the feast of 'Lugnei Diaconi', The Martyrology of Gorman lists his name with a scholiast note deochain (deacon) against it and The Martyrology of Donegal simply lists 'Lughna, Deacon'. Nothing else appears to have been recorded of this saintly deacon but in his Dictionary of Irish Saints Pádraig Ó Riain notes that a seventeenth-century source speculated that he may be the same person as Lughna, son of Maonach. This Lughna was the brother of seven other saints including Saint Fachtna of Ross, but the Lughna recorded in the Irish calendars on December 31 is described as a deacon and not by any patronymic.
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