List of saints of Scotland

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The Monymusk Reliquary, or Brecbennoch, dates from c. 750, and purportedly enclosed bones of Columba

This is a list of saints of Scotland, which includes saints from

venerated in the Kingdom of Scotland
.

One of the main features of Medieval Scotland was the

St. Cuthbert, whose relics were carried across Northumbria after Lindisfarne was sacked by the Vikings before being installed in Durham Cathedral.[5] After his martyrdom around 1115, a cult emerged in Orkney, Shetland and northern Scotland around Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney.[6]

Veneration of Saint Andrew

St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and has a long history of veneration there.[7] The cult of St Andrew was established on the east coast at Kilrymont by the Pictish kings as early as the eighth century.[8] The shrine, which from the twelfth century was said to have contained the relics of the saint brought to Scotland by Saint Regulus.[9]

Developments in the Early Middle Ages

By the twelfth century it had become known simply as

St Nicholas church in Aberdeen.[12]

Impact of the Reformation

The Reformation made the veneration of saints illegal and removed almost all evidence of saints and shrines from churches,[13] although Catholicism continued as a minority religion. The period created only one Catholic saint, the convert and martyr John Ogilvie (1569–1615).[14]

List of Saints

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

W

See also

References

  1. ISBN 074860104X
    , p. 64.
  2. ISBN 1446475638
    , p. 76.
  3. ISBN 0333567617
    , pp. 52–3.
  4. ISBN 0-7509-2977-4
    , p. 46.
  5. ISBN 0859917657
    , p. 137.
  6. ISBN 9004155805
    .
  7. ^ St Andrew, Patron Saint of Scotland
  8. ^
    ISBN 0748620222
    , p. 11.
  9. ISBN 0333567617
    , p. 55.
  10. ISBN 0-521-58602-X
    , p. 254.
  11. ISBN 1843840960
    , pp. 26–9.
  12. ISBN 0-333-63358-X
    , p. 147.
  13. ISBN 0140136495
    , p. 153.
  14. ISBN 1444337327
    , p. 164.


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