to Devenish with relics of Peter and Paul, Laurence and Clement, which were buried with him in the cemetery, so that Devenish could become an Irish Rome. Death and veneration The Irish annals record his death in 564. According to early Irish martyrologies, his festival was observed on 12 September. A piece of metalwork which bears testimony to his cult is the book reliquary, probably from Devenish, known as Soiscél Molaisse ('Gospel-book of Molaise'). The original part appears to have been an 8/9th-century portable chasse, but in the early 11th century, it was converted for use as a book shrine at the behest of Cennfaelad (d. 1025), abbot of Devenish, whose name appears in the inscription. Further decorations were added in a later age. It is currently kept in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. References Sources Charles-Edwards, T.M. “Ulster, saints of (act. c.400–c.650).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004. Henry, Françoise. Irish Art during the Viking Invasions,800-1020. London, 1967 Pádraig Ó Riain, Corpus genealogiarum sanctorum Hiberniae. Dublin, 1985 Latin Life of St Laisrén: Vita sancti Lasriani seu Molaissi abbatis de Dam Inis, ed. Charles Plummer, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae. Vol. II. Oxford, 1910. 131-40 Irish Life of St Laisrén: Betha Mholaise Dhaiminse, ed. and tr. S.H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica. 2 vols. London, 1892. vol I. 17-37; vol II. 18-34 Further reading Doherty, Charles. “The earliest cult of Molaisse.” In History of the diocese of Clogher, ed. Henry A. Jefferies. Dublin: Four Courts, 2005. 13-24. Doherty, Charles. “Saint Máedóc and Saint Molaisse.” Breifne: Journal of Cumann Seanchais Bhréifne 7:24 (1986): 363-74. Lowry-Corry, Dorothy. “St. Molaise's house at Devenish, Lough Erne, and its sculptured stones.” Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66 (1936): 270-84. Ó Cannan, Tomás G. (ed.). "A poem on the rights of the coarb of Saint Molaisse." Clogher Record: Journal of the Clogher Historical Society 15:1 (1994): 7-24. On the Soiscél Molaise Ó Floinn, Raghnall. “The Soiscél Molaisse.” Clogher Record: Journal of the Clogher Historical Society 13:2 (1989): 51-63. Mullarkey, Paul. “Some observations on the form and date of the Soiscéal Molaise Book shrine.” In Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison, ed. Colum Hourihane. Index of Christian Art, Occasional Papers 7. Dublin, 2004. 124-140. 6th-century Irish abbots Medieval saints of Ulster People from County Fermanagh 564 deaths Year of birth unknown