Benignus of Armagh
Roman Catholic archbishop and saint
d. 467
4th Archbishop of Armagh
Offices
Benán was the son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in the part of Ireland that is now called County Meath.
Commemorated
Places
- County Meath birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Annala Uladh, Annals of Ulster 1 claim — Annals of Ulster (ed. Hennessy) I, A.D. 431–1056