Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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Comgan

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
Early medieval
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
The feast of Saint Comgan is recorded in the Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (9th century) on 13 October. He is commemorated with an office in the Aberdeen Breviary, where he is said to have founded a monastery at Turriff, and to have been buried on Iona by St Fillan. The lection in the Aberdeen Breviary makes him a brother of Saint Kentigerna and an uncle of Saint Fillan. It should be noted that several other saints with the name Comgan appear in the Irish martyrologies.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Abbot 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
Gaelic From Dalriada, mainland Ireland, Mann 100 None
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
10 13 yes St Comgan None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations