Mochta [SEP] date of death
Mochta
Saint Mochta, Mochtae, or Mahew (died 20 August 535, or A.D. 537), in Latin sources "Maucteus" or "Mauchteus", was the last surviving disciple of St. Patrick.
Life.
He was, like Patrick, a native of Britain. His name is British, and Adomnán's "Life of Columba" describes him as "a certain British stranger, a holy man and a disciple of the holy bishop Patrick". Adomnán presents Mochta as having prophesied the birth of Colm
Bishop of Armagh, that is after Patrick's heir Benignus and the "Annals of Ulster" and "Innisfallen" record his death in the year 481.
In the two Irish "Lives" of St Brendan, possibly of the 12th century, Iarlaithe is called a son of Lug, son of Trén, son of Fiacc, son of Mochta, and the First "Life" in the Book of Lismore continues the pedigree by calling Mochta a son of Bresal, son of Siracht, son of Fiacha the Fair.