Moeca
Martyrological notice
Moeca, now, i.e. Fechin of Fore, that is Fechin, then, he was called for this reason. He chanced, when a child, to be gnawing a bone in- front of his mother, so that his mother said : " Yon is my little wee raven ! " saith she. Inde Fechin ' little raven ' dictus est. Mo-eca autem dictus est, i.e. for his backsliding, i.e. when Fechin was ox-herding for Ciaran of Clonmacnois his portion chanced to be left for him on the ledge (?). Thereat Fechin is angered, and he fares forth then, and leaves the church, and goes out of it eastward. That is told to Ciaran. " After him," says Ciaran ; " and if he come not willingly, let him be brought perforce," says Ciaran. They go after him. Then Fechin said that he would not come with his face before him, so he came thus, with his back before him. "A backslider is that man," quoth Ciaran. Inde etc.
Historical martyrology witness · The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905)
Moeca, now, i.e. Fechin of Fore, that is Fechin, then, he was called for this reason. He chanced, when a child, to be gnawing a bone in- front of his mother, so that his mother said : " Yon is my little wee raven ! " saith she. Inde Fechin ' little raven ' dictus est. Mo-eca autem dictus est, i.e. for his backsliding, i.e. when Fechin was ox-herding for Ciaran of Clonmacnois his portion chanced to be left for him on the ledge (?). Thereat Fechin is angered, and he fares forth then, and leaves the church, and goes out of it eastward. That is told to Ciaran. " After him," says Ciaran ; " and if he come not willingly, let him be brought perforce," says Ciaran. They go after him. Then Fechin said that he would not come with his face before him, so he came thus, with his back before him. "A backslider is that man," quoth Ciaran. Inde etc.