Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume I: January. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
January 1
St. Mochua, alias Cronan, of Bella, Abbot in Ireland
MOCHUA was contemporary to St. Congal, and founded the monastery (now a town) named Balla, in Connaught. He departed to our Lord in the fifty-sixth year of his age. See Bollandus, p. 49.
