Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/JD/37

Medan

Gender
Female
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Commemorated on 19 November in the Aberdeen Breviary, where she is said to have been a 'most chaste virgin from Ireland' who went to live in Galloway to escape the advances of a certain knight.
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
11 19 yes Saint Medan, Virgin non-Martyr None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations