Ailbe of Emly
| Saint Ailbe or Elvis |
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| Born | 5th Century |
| Died | 528 |
| Venerated in |
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Feast | 12 September |
| Patronage | Munster, the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, wolves |
Saint Ailbe (Irish pronunciation: [ˈalʲvʲə]; Latin: Albeus), usually known in English as St Elvis, (British/Welsh) Eilfyw or Eilfw, was a 6th-century Christian figure in Ireland, where he was a bishop, confessor and later saint. Ailbe's origins are a matter of controversy and is claimed by different sources to have been Irish or an Ancient Briton; he is also strongly associated with early medieval Wales, particularly Saint David, whom he was credited with baptizing.
Saint Ailbe is venerated as one of the four great patrons of Ireland. His feast day is 12 September. He is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.
The life of Ailbe is included in the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (VSH), a Latin collection of medieval Irish saints’ lives compiled in the 14th century. There are three major manuscript versions of the VSH: the Dublin, Oxford, and Salamanca. Charles Plummer compiled an edition of the VSH based on the two surviving Dublin manuscripts in 1910. William Heist compiled an edition of the single Salamanca manuscript in 1965. Oxford professor Richard Sharpe suggests that the Salamanca manuscript is the closest to the original text from which all three versions derive. Sharpe's analysis of the Irish name-forms in the Codex Salamanticensis showed similarities between it and the Life of Saint Brigid, a verifiably 7th-century text, leading him to posit that nine (and possibly ten) of the lives were written much earlier, c. 750–850. Further material is provided by the lives of related saints such as Patrick. All include numerous miraculous events and obvious inconsistencies and anachronisms.
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