[1] Forannan was chosen bishop by popular election, and consecrated, according to his 'Life,' in 'the city called in the barbarous dialect of the Irish Domhnach mor,' i.e. Donoughmore, which, it is added, is the metropolis of Ireland.
In obedience to a vision directing him to go to the Meuse, Forannan, with twelve companions, left Ireland about 969, and, as usual with Irish saints, was miraculously conveyed across the sea.
It is possible that Forannan left Ireland as a peregrinus (a person who took an ascetic vow to live in exile) and he may have heard of the Irish connections of the monastery of Waulsort and decided to settle down there.
There Forannan received the episcopal dignity and the title of abbot; he was ordered to turn aside for further instruction in the Benedictine rule to Gorze Abbey.
Macculind, on leaving Ireland, had first gone to Peronne, the monastery founded by Eorcenwald, and there won the patronage of Hersendis, the wife of Count Eilbert.