page_title: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh
section_title: Veneration
hierarchical_section_title: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh / Veneration
caption_attribution_description: English: Ivrea, Cathedral, funeral urn of the Blessed Taddeo Mc Carty
context_page_description: Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh c. 1455 – 25 October 1492, was an Irish ecclesiastic. He was a bishop who never ruled his see, even though he was appointed to two of them: Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.
context_section_description: His tomb became a local shrine. In 1742, when his tomb was opened, the body was found to be perfectly preserved.
  During the great famine in 1847, the clergy and people of Ivrea donated a substantial sum of money for the relief of the Irish Famine victims. They also requested any information on Mac Cárthaigh, principally because of the veneration of the people of Ivrea and the many miracles attributed to his intercession. This request aroused great interest in Mac Cárthaigh and, after a long investigation into his life, it was decided to seek his beatification on behalf of the people and clergy of Ivrea and Cork.
  In 1896 Pope Leo XIII confirmed the immemorial cult of the "Blessed Thaddeus". The same year (1896) clerics in Ivrea agreed to donate major relics of Mac Cárthaigh to the dioceses of Cork & Ross and Cloyne. These relics can now be found in The Church of The Immaculate Conception The Lough, Cork North Cathedral, Cobh Cathedral and St Mary's Parish Church in Youghal. His feast day of 25 October is kept in the dioceses of Ross, Cork, and Cloyne, and in Ivrea, where he was buried.
  Mac Cárthaigh was honoured with the title of "White Martyr of Munster" principally because of the intense mental and physical anguish.
caption: Altar with the funeral urn of Blessed Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh, Cathedral of Ivrea
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