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Died 978. Maccallin was an Irishman who made a pilgrimage to Saint Fursey's shrine at Peronne during the Viking terror. He entered the Benedictine abbey of Gorze. Later he became a hermit and was given a grant of land on which he founded Saint Michael's monastery at Thierache and governed it as abbot. Soon after he made a second foundation at Waulsort ("Valciodorum") Abbey, near Dinant, Belgium, on the River Meuse, over which he placed Saint Cadroe (f.d. March 6). In 946, Emperor Otto I issued a charter that stipulated that Waulsort should be governed by an Irish abbot so long as one was available within the community (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Fitzpatrick, Montague, O'Hanlon).


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