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Category:Medieval Scottish saints

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► Female saints of medieval Scotland‎ (4 P)

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► Northern Brythonic saints‎ (1 C, 12 P)
► Northumbrian saints‎ (63 P)

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The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total; this list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

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David I of Scotland [videos]

David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of the Scots from 1124 to 1153. The youngest son of Malcolm III and Margaret of Wessex, David spent most of …

William "Rufus", the Red, King of the English, and partial instigator of the Scottish civil war, 1093–1097.

The ruins of Kelso Abbey. This establishment was originally at Selkirk from 1113 while David was Prince of the Cumbrians; it was moved to Kelso in 1128 to better serve David's southern "capital" at Roxburgh.

Himelin [videos]

Saint Himelin was an Irish or Scottish priest who, returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, fell ill when passing through Vissenaken. — He is said to have been the brother of Rumbold, patron …

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Saint Inan [videos]

Saint Inan was the patron saint of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he is said to have resided during the 9th century AD. He is reputed to have come from Iona, and to have died in Irvine, where his tomb was reputed to have been the site of miracles. — History — Although he is said to …

Saint Inan's Chair on Cauldhame Hill, Beith

Beith Kirk in 1876, built on the site of Saint Inan's chapel.

Saint Inan - Irvine circa 1870. The Old parish kirk, manse and site of the Chapel well (where the two figures are standing on the right bank below the kirk).

The rocking Stone at Cuff Hill.

Irvine circa 1870. The Old parish kirk, manse and site of the Chapel well (where the two figures are standing on the right bank below the kirk).

Saint Margaret of Scotland [videos]

Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the …

Image of Saint Margaret in a window in Edinburgh

Malcolm greeting Margaret at her arrival in Scotland; detail of a mural by Victorian artist William Hole

Site of the ruined Shrine of St. Margaret at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland

St Margaret's Chapel in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

Saint Mungo [videos]

Kentigern, known as Mungo, was an apostle of the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late 6th century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. — Name — In Wales and England, this saint is known by his birth and baptismal name …

Saint Mungo (University of Glasgow)

Tomb of St. Mungo in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral

St Mungo's Church, Townhead, Glasgow

Saint Mungo appears in the crest of Glasgow's coat of arms along with his miracles.

Columba [videos]

Saint Columba was an Irish abbot and missionary Evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which …

Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts

The remains of St. Columba's Church, Gartan, County Donegal.

Saint Columba. Stained glass window in Iona Abbey

Saint Medan [videos]

Saint Medan was a saint, apparently of the early British or Irish period, whose existence and name are inferred from the name Kirkmaiden in Wigtownshire, but who is also associated with Angus and Aberdeenshire. — The occurrence and legend of Medan — There is a Kirkmaiden both in the Rinns of …

St Medan's Cave and Chapel, Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire; by Herbert Maxwell, 1885

Entrance to Inner Cell, St. Medan's Chapel, Kirkmaiden; by Herbert Maxwell, 1885

Old Kirkmaiden Church, Mull, Kirkmaiden Parish, Wigtownshire; photo by Jonathan Wilkins

Saint Blane [videos]

Saint Blane was a Bishop and Confessor in Scotland, born on the Isle of Bute, date unknown; died 590. His feast is kept on 10 August. — Late medieval Scottish texts relate that his mother was Irish and that St Cathan was her brother. It was Cathan who saw to Blane's education in …

St Blane's Church viewed from the wall surrounding the old and the new graveyards.

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Fillan [videos]

Saint Fillan, Filan, Phillan, Fáelán or Faolán is the name of probably two Scottish saints, of Irish origin. The career of a historic individual lies behind at least one of these saints, but much of the tradition surrounding Fillan seems to be of a purely …

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Saint Mirin [videos]

Saint Mirin or Mirren, an Irish monk and missionary, is also known as Mirren of Benchor, Merinus, Merryn and Meadhrán. The patron saint of the town and Roman Catholic diocese of Paisley, Scotland, he was the founder of a religious community which grew …

St. Mirin

Image: Paisley Abbey 20120410 door with St Mirin and St Columba

Triduana [videos]

Saint Triduana, also known as Trodline, Tredwell, and in Norse as Trøllhaena, was an early Christian woman, associated with various places in Scotland. She lived at an unknown time, probably between the 4th and 8th centuries AD.According to the 16th-century Aberdeen Breviary, Triduana was born in …

The 15th-century St Triduana's Aisle, Restalrig, Edinburgh

St Tredwell's Chapel, Papa Westray

Wendelin of Trier [videos]

Saint Wendelin of Trier was a hermit and abbot. He is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. — Life — There is very little definite information about this saint; his earliest biographies, did not …

St. Wendelin (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)

Image: Szent Vendel Hegymagas, 2016.03.07 (1)

Adomnán [videos]

Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona, also known as Eunan, was an abbot of Iona Abbey, hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the most important book on the life of his cousin St Columba …

Iona Abbey

Adrian of May [videos]

Saint Adrian of May was a martyr-saint of ancient Scotland, whose cult became popular in the 14th century. He is commemorated on December 3. He may have been a bishop of Saint Andrews. — Life and martyrdom — Little is known of the life of this Scottish …

Saint Adrian's Priory, Isle of May

Cainnech of Aghaboe [videos]

Saint Cainnech of Aghaboe, also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Saint Canicus, was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period. Cainnech is one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and …

Statue at St. Canice's Catholic Church Kilkenny

Saint Conval [videos]

Saint Conval was an Irish-born missionary who, when pondering his vocation, was carried by the stone he stood on across the Irish Sea to Inchinnan in Scotland. He was active in the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the area of East Renfrewshire, where there were “Conval wells” in …

"St Conval's Chariot", behind the Argyll Stone.

Saint Fergus [videos]

Saint Fergus was a bishop who worked in Scotland as a missionary. — Life — Ten saints of this name are mentioned in the martyrology of Donegal.No one knows for certain when Fergus was born or where. He was a contemporary of St. Drostan and St. Donevaldus. The …

An effigy of Saint Fergus, carved in the 15th Century.

Gilbert de Moravia [videos]

Gilbert de Moravia, later known as Saint Gilbert of Dornoch, or Gilbert of Caithness, was the most famous Bishop of Caithness and founder of Dornoch Cathedral. His name may suggest that he came from the semi-Gaelicized family of Flemish origin who were Lords of Duffus, and who during …

Stained glass of St Gilbert from Dornoch Cathedral, Scotland.

Rögnvald Kali Kolsson [videos]

Rognvald Kale Kolsson was an Earl of Orkney and a Norwegian saint. — Life — Rognvald's parents were lendmann Kol Kalisson and Gunnhild Erlendsdotter, the sister of Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of …

St. Rögnvald

Saint Modan [videos]

St Modan was the son of an Irish chieftain. He became a monk and built a chapel at Dryburgh, Scotland, in 522 which he used as a base for several years. This later became the site of a monastery: Dryburgh Abbey. — He actively proselytised on behalf of the Celtic church in the Falkirk and Stirling …

Saint Modan (Robert Story Memorial Window by Douglas Strachan, in the Bute Hall of Glasgow University)

Molaise of Leighlin [videos]

For other saints of the same personal name, see Laisrén Saint Molaise of Leighlin, also Laisrén or Laserian, was an early Irish saint and abbot of Lethglenn or Leithglenn, now Old Leighlin in Co. Carlow, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th and 7th centuries …

Saint Molaise's cave on Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, decorated with Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags.

Moluag [videos]

Saint Moluag was a Scottish missionary, and a contemporary of Saint Columba, who evangelized the Picts of Scotland in the sixth century. Saint Moluag was the patron saint of Argyll as evidenced by a …

The Saints Window in Kilmoluag, Lismore depicting St Moluag and St Columba

Nathalan [videos]

Nathalan, is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, who was active in the district now known as Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is also known by the names Saint Nachlan and Saint Nauchlan. — Life — Nathalan was born in the village of Tullich, for which he was eventually …

Cowie kirk, originally dedicated to St. Nathalan

Saint Oda [videos]

Saint Oda of Scotland was a woman, supposedly of Scottish origin, who became a holy woman in the Netherlands. Her feast day is 23 October. — Life — Oda was born blind and her father sent her on pilgrimage to Liège to visit the relics of Saint Lambert. While praying at Saint …

Saint Oda chapel, Sint-Oedenrode

Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney [videos]

Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, sometimes known as Magnus the Martyr, was Earl of Orkney from 1106 to about 1115. — Magnus's grandparents, Earl Thorfinn and his wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, had two sons, Erlend and Paul, who were twins. Through Ingibiorg's father Finn Arnesson and his wife …

The ruins of St Magnus Church, on the island of Egilsay

Saint Regulus [videos]

Saint Regulus or Saint Rule was a legendary 4th century monk or bishop of Patras, Greece who in AD 345 is said to have fled to Scotland with the bones of Saint Andrew, and deposited them at St Andrews. His feast day in the Aberdeen Breviary is October 17. — Biography — The …

Tower of St. Rule's Church at St Andrews

Saint Serf [videos]

Saint Serf or Serbán is a saint of Scotland. Serf was venerated in western Fife. He is called the apostle of Orkney, with less historical plausibility. Saint Serf is connected with Saint Mungo's Church near Simonburn, Northumberland (off the Bellingham Road, north …

Saint Serf is said to have founded the Scottish town of Culross.

Teneu [videos]

Teneu is a legendary Christian saint who was venerated in medieval Glasgow, Scotland. Traditionally she was a sixth-century Brittonic princess of the ancient kingdom of Gododdin and the mother of Saint Kentigern …

Traprain Law: the cliff from which Teneu was thrown

William of Perth [videos]

Saint William of Perth, also known as Saint William of Rochester was a Scottish saint who was martyred in England. He is the patron saint of adopted children. — Life — Practically all that is known of William comes from the Nova Legenda Anglie, and that is little. He was born in …

Stained glass window in Rochester Cathedral, late 19th century

Henry IV of France [videos]

Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of …

Henry III of France on his deathbed designating Henry IV of Navarre as his successor (1589)

Jeton with portrait of King Henri IV, made in Nuremberg (Germany) by Hans Laufer

Entrance of Henry IV in Paris, 22 March 1594, with 1,500 cuirassiers

Henry IV and Marie de Médicis

World War I [videos]

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Sarajevo citizens reading a poster with the proclamation of the Austrian annexation in 1908

Serbian Army Blériot XI "Oluj", 1915

German soldiers in a railway goods wagon on the way to the front in 1914. Early in the war, all sides expected the conflict to be a short one.

French bayonet charge, Battle of the Frontiers; by the end of August, French casualties exceeded 260,000, including 75,000 dead.

Tate Britain [videos]

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Millbank Millennium Pier outside Tate Britain, which is linked by a high-speed boat to Tate Modern

Statue of John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock at Tate Britain

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Image: Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) by John Constable, Tate Britain

Mount Vesuvius [videos]

Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km east of Naples and a short …

A view of the crater wall of Vesuvius, with the city of Torre del Greco in the background

Procession of Saint Januarius during an eruption of Vesuvius in 1822

Vesuvius erupting. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection

Fresco of Bacchus and Agathodaemon with Mount Vesuvius, as seen in Pompeii's House of the Centenary.

J. Paul Getty Museum [videos]

The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The two locations received over two million visitors in 2016.The primary museum, the Getty Center, is located in Brentwood neighborhood of Los …

The Getty attracts approximately 1.8 million visitors a year.

Architect Richard Meier chose beige-colored Italian travertine panels to cover the retaining walls and to serve as paving stones for the arrival plaza and Museum courtyard.

Image: Aerial Getty Museum

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Charles Barkley [videos]

Charles Wade Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on Inside the NBA. Nicknamed Chuck, Sir Charles, and The Round Mound of Rebound. Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominant …

Charles Barkley in 2008

Barkley with President Barack Obama at the White House

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