Díchu

{{short description|First convert of Saint Patrick}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox saint | name = Saint Díchu mac Trichim | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | titles = | feast_day = 29 April | attributes = | patronage = | major_shrine = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | venerated_in = | relics = | issues = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_by = }} Saint '''Díchu mac Trichim''' was the first convert of Saint Patrick in Ireland. His feast is noted in the ''Martyrology of Donegal'' as "Diochu of Sabhall", under date of 29 April.<ref name="Perry">{{cite book|last1=Perry|first1=Philip M.|last2=Herrero|first2=Carlos|last3=González-Cascos|first3=Elena|title=Philip Perry's Sketch of the Ancient British History: A Critical Edition|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|isbn=978-1443804707|page=108}}</ref><ref name="Charles">{{cite book|last1=Charles-Edwards|first1=T. M.|title=Early Christian Ireland|url=https://archive.org/details/earlychristianir00char|url-access=limited|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521363950|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlychristianir00char/page/n86 65]}}</ref>

==See also== *{{Cite Catholic Encyclopedia|title=St. Dichu|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04778b.htm}}

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