DE/EW/5506
dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)In 1378 the cathedral of St Andrews was burnt on the feast of Tecla, the virgin.
anno dicti scismatis combusta est ecclesia magna S. Andree, quae totaliter de plumbo tecta erat, in festo Teclae virginis, in hora magnae missae, per fulgura ac per nidos volucrum ignitos a calore ardentis solis infra tectum plumbi et trabes, sicut conjecturatum est.
- Type of dedication
- Dating by feast day
- Confidence
- 100
- Saint named
- Tecla the virgin
- Saint details
- ST/EW/211
- Date low
- 15/10/1378
- Date high
- None
- Entry reference
- EN/EW/3271
- Notes
- 15 October is date of Tecla's feast in the Roman Martyrology, but dates of 27 or 28 September are also used; Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Tecla.