Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland logo

ST/JD/116

Machan

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
6th century
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Commemorated in the Aberdeen Breviary on 28 September, where he is said to be honoured at Campsie. Machan's Life, as reported in the lections for his office in the Aberdeen Breviary, make him ex scotorum genere, and educated in Ireland.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
Gaelic From Dalriada, mainland Ireland, Mann 100 None
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
9 28 yes St Machan, Bishop and Confessor None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations