A Calendar of Scottish Saints

A C A LEN DA R O F SC OTTIS H SA IN TS DO M M S B BY L B O . ICHAE ARRETT , . SECOND“ EDITION REVISED AUGMENTED F0RT-AUGUSTUS PRINTED AT TH E ABBEY PRESS l 9| 9 ’ N z kil obstat D . UTHB ERTUS ALM D O. S . E . C ON , Ce nsor Dep . Imp r imatur > < E EORGIUS . A r G be d . X , p INTRO DU C TION f Sc t ish a lie d o e TH E title o o t , p p t th ho ly o ne s who se name s o ccur in the s e s o r no ce s mus b e und e rs o o d to h t ti , t t r e fe r no t so much to the ir natio nality as to the fi e ld in whi ch . the y l abo ure d o r the lo caliti e s whe re trace s o f th e ir u d callus are to b e fo n . The C ale ndar he re submitt e d do e s no t p re t e nd to be e xh austiv e ; the s aints the re in no t e d ar e tho se who ap p e ar p ro mine ntly in such r e co rds as - re main to us and in the p lace name s w s il e l r n l hich t l r ca l th e ir p e so a iti e s . In this ne w e diti o n much additio nal nfo rmatio n has b e e n nse e d and i i rt , m any e me ndatio ns made to re nd e r the C a e ndar as co m le te as ss b e l p p o i l . I NTRODUCTION The chi e f so urce s re lie d up o n in the co mp il atio n o f the wo rk are The B re viar o A be rde e n dr wn u y f , a p l i b B s o W m . E ns n nd y i h p p h to e , a i 1 50 p rinte d n 9. , Dr Fo rb e s K ale ndars o S c ttish . f o S a in s t . ri ne s Paro chiales S co tiaz O gi . ' Dr Sk n s e ltic S c tland e e C . o ' ' C ano n O Hanlo n s Live s of Irish S aints . ’ C ardinal M o ran s Irish S aints in Gr t B ritain e a . l A o o tland N e w S tatistica cco unt f S c . The date at the he ad o f e ach no tic e is g e ne rally that o f the d e ath o f the i sa nt co nce rne d . JA N UA RY — n n t LD. 64 1 St . E r a o 0. , Abb , H E Saint whose feast is celebrated on this day was a disciple of the great St . u Col mba , and is said by Colgan , the renowned r . I ish scholar , to have been his nephew What connection the saint had with Scotland is not ur r clear . He may have labo ed for a time the e u but o f under St . Col mba , he became Abbot m m Dru ho e . in Donegal On the night St . r Columba went to his eward , as we are told by ' r A damnan that saint s biographe , St . , Ernan was favoured with a vision in which the saints r r death was evealed to him . St . E nan died in his Irish monastery at an advanced age in the 640 ur Kille rnan year . The ch ch of , in Ross r r shire , is named afte him . Anothe dedication to this saint is thought by some to be Kilvice ue n in Mull . 4— man r Chr nan D 4 St C r o o o L . 6 1 . h , ON account of the destruction o f so many e r r r cclesiastical eco ds at the Refo mation , many B 2 JANUARY particulars regarding some of o ur Scottish saints have been irrevocably lost . This is the case r A ll with the holy man befo e us . that we know of him may be told in a few words . He lived r r r r in the Cunningham dist ict of Ay shi e , whe e he was revered during life and venerated after o r - death f his great sanctity . On his death bed we are told he kept continually repeating those 83 “ words of the rd Psalm , My soul Iongeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord . My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the Living G od . — 8t . e nti e r as Re c u e LD. 38 7 7 . K g , l s , LI KE so many holy so uls whose lives drew c down the gra e of Heaven upon the land , St . Ke nti e rna . g was of Irish race Her brother , C o m an St . g , succeeded their father , a prince of Leinster , in the government of his territory . Meeting with violent opposition from the o f u neighbouring princes , on account his j st and C m an r . o up ight Christian rule , St g was obliged fl to y the country , and together with his e widow d sister , who had been married to an r r u . I ish p ince , took ref ge in Scotland St C o m an t g devoted himself to monas ic life , and JANUARY 3 Kentige rna retired to an island in Lo ch Lomond r he r r to live as an anchoress . He e in solita y w isle w cell , on the hilly , ooded hich is now called in memory of her Innis na C a illich (the ’ u r N n s Island) , she spent many yea s of the h remainder of e r life . The island became the r u u seat of the old pa ish ch rch of B chanan , which r r was dedicated to her , and in the g aveya d , use are which is still in , many tombs of the r o r chiefs and illustrious men of the clan M acG e g . r o n ru . The chu ch has been l g in ins St . Kenti e gern died in 733 . Her feast is to be found in r r r the Abe deen B evia y . —' 1 1 . S ib h n LD St u e S we e ne A o t I . 65 6 . ( y) . bb , THIS saint was an Abbot of Iona who died in the odour of sanctity when he had been Superior o f r fo r o u r that monaste y ab t th ee years . — 1 4 St . Ke nti e r n o r Mun o s o g g , Bi h p , A . D. 603 or 61 2 . TH E ancient kingdom of Cumbria o r Strath clyde extended from the Clyde to the Derwent u r in C mbe land . It had been evangelised by . but ur two ur St Ninian , , in the co se of cent ies , r u a and r th o gh const nt warfare st ife , the Faith 4 JANUARY had almost disappeared when , in the middle of Ke nti e r . n the sixth century , St g was raised up to be its new apostle . The saint came of a r A 5 I8 D . royal ace , and was born about He was brought up from childhood by a holy hermit r of Culross called Se f , who out of the love he bore the bo y changed his name of Ke ntige rn " (signifying lord and master ) to that of Mungo we ll (the beloved) . It is under the latter name that he is best known in Scotland . I t should be noted , however , that the benefactor of the young a a Kentiger , though possibly be ring the same i - name , cannot be identif ed with the well known o f St . Serf Culross , who , according to modern l historians , must have f ourished in a later o f a century . At the completion his educ a C athures tion Kentiger fixed his abode at , now known as Glasgow , and was joined by many disciples , who lived under his rule in a kind of monastic discipline . His holy life caused him to be raised—much against — his will to the episcopal state . He fixed upon fl all Glasgow for his see , and ruled his ock with the ardour and holiness of an apostle . Simple r and mortified in life , he abstained enti ely from JANUARY 5 fl wine and esh , and often passed two days with o ut . food He wore haircloth next his skin , slept on a stone , and often rose in the night to Go d u r praise . Througho t his life he prese ved the purity of his baptismal innocence . His ff o f d pastoral sta was simple woo . He always r r r r wo e his priestly stole , to be eady to pe fo m u r ff the f nctions of his sac ed o ice .

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