Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/JD/140

Fergus (Fergusianus)

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - 730
Description
Feast commemorated on 18 November in the Aberdeen Breviary, where he is said to have evangelized substantial areas of Scotland. ODS, 194.
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
11 18 yes St Fergusianus, Bishop and Confessor None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations