31 August ~ St. Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Saint Aidan is said to have been a disciple of Saint Senan (f.d. March 8) on Scattery Island, but nothing else is known with certainty of his early life before ...
Tag: Western Orthodox Saints
26 August ~ St. Ninian
Bishop and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432. The first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. Also known as Ninias, Ninus, Dinan, Ringan, Ringen&#...
25 August ~ St. Ebba, First Abbess of Coldingham
First Abbess of Coldingham, Northumbria. Sister of King Oswy. Died in 683. Also known as Aebbe, Ebbe, Tabbs. Saint Ebba, the daughter of King Ethelfrith of Nort...
20 August ~ St. Oswin King and Martyr of Deira, Northumbria
Died at Gilling, Yorkshire, England, on August 20, 651. When his father, King Osric of Deira (roughly the county of Yorkshire), was killed by the pagan Welsh Ki...
11 August ~ St. Blane, Bishop of Bute
Saint Blane, a disciple of Saint Comgall (f.d. May 11) and Saint Canice (f.d. October 11), was nobly born on Bute Island, Scotland. He returned home to finish h...
5 August ~ St. Oswlad
King of Northumbria and Martyr.Born, probably, 605; died 5 Aug., 642. The second of seven brothers, sons of Ethelfrid, who was grandson of Ida, founder of the K...
18 July ~ St. Enoch/St. Thenew
Many legends but few facts are recorded about Kentigern (d. c. 603/612), who with his mother Thenew is a patron of Glasgow. Thenew was a princess whose father s...
17 July ~ St. Kenelm, Prince of Mercia
Died c. 812-821. According to a popular legend of the Middle Ages, Kenelm was seven when his father, King Kenulf (Coenwulf) of Mercia, died, and he succeeded to...
15 July ~ St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
St. Swithun had been Abbot of the monastery attached to the cathedral, before he was made Bishop of Winchester in AD 852… He was, say the chroniclers, a d...
15 July ~ St. Donald of Olgivy
St. Donald lived in Olgivy, in Forfarshire, Scotland, in the early part of the 8th century. Upon the death of his wife, he and his nine daughters began to live ...