Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/177

Mayoca

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Mayota, Virgin non-Martyr, is commemorated on 23 December in the Aberdeen Breviary, where little information about her life is supplied, except that she was a noble virgin who forsook whe world and its temptations. Considered a fictitious saint by Watson, Celtic Place-Names, 328.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
non-matyr Virgin 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
12 23 yes Mayota, Virgin non-Martyr None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations