Cennarghus

Cennarghus (fl. 630) was an Irish missionary who came spread the word of Jesus in Mornaiss.

Biography
Cennarghus got his education on the monastery of Bangor. There's little known of why he has been sended to Mornaiss. Around the year of 630 arrived on the island of Bentorr with a couple of monks and soldiers as companions. On the place of where he came ashore he build a small wooden chapel who was dedicated to Saint Christopher.

Somewhere around the year of 632 was invited to the court of Llewellyn II of Morngew. He failed in the christianizing of the king, but under the local people he was more succesfull. A couple of years later he send word home for more priests, because of "the great fate that the local inhabitants shows too Our God." Before he got a word back he died of a fever.

Veneration
A few years after his dead the missionary Alexander of Modena took the job of Cennarghus over, as he was installed as the first bishop. In the chapel that Cennarghus had build he gained a little statue. In the passing centuries many people became to pray at his resemblance. Around 950 the first miracle was recorded. In 1013 he became official a saint by declaration of Pope Benedict VIII.

The Cathedral of Shellaish is dedicated to Cennarghus. His bones are also buried there.