16 May ~ St. Brendan of Clonfert
St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, known also as Brendan the Voyager, was born in Ciarraighe Luachra, near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, ...
Tag: Scottish Saints
10 May ~ St. Gordian
At the head of the long and beautiful valley of the Manor Water in Peeblesshire there stood, until the eighteenth century, a seemly little parish kirk dedicated...
10 March ~ St. John Ogilvie
The first papal canonisation creating saints did not take place until the Church had been in existence for twelve centuries. Among early saints was ScotlandR...
6 March ~ St. Baldred
Two saintly men are held in special honor by the folk of East Lothian ad treasured as peculiarly their own. The two were very different in their lives and their...
3 March ~ St. Ailred
Ailred was born in 1109, the son of a married priest of Hexham. He appears to have been well connected, for he was a lifelong friend of King David I of Scotland...
1 March ~ David of Wales
When Scots folk talk of St. David more often than not they mean the patron of Wales, Dewi Sant, rather than King David, Son of Queen Margaret. Dewi Ddyfrwr, Dav...
28 February ~ St. Oswald
King and martyr; b., probably, 605; d. 5 Aug., 642; the second of seven brothers, sons of Ethelfrid, who was grandson of Ida, founder of the Kingdom of Northumb...
23 February ~ St. Quivox
Formerly this saint (also called Kevoca and Mochaemhog) was taken to be a woman and commemorated under the name of St. Kevoca the Virgin. The scholars Colgan an...
St. Ronan
There are twelve Irish saints bearing the name of Ronan commemorated in the “Martyrology of Donegal”; of these the most celebrated are: St. Ronan of...
4 February ~ St. Modan
Abbot and son of an Irish chieftain. He labored in Scotland, preaching at Stirling and Falkirk, until elected against his will as abbot of a monastery. Eventual...