Caintigern

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Inchcailloch (Old Irish: Innis na Cailleach
; island of the old woman), burial place of Saint Kentigerna Innisnacailleach.jpg
Inchcailloch (Old Irish : Innis na Cailleach; island of the old woman), burial place of Saint Kentigerna

Caintigern (died 734), [1] or Saint Kentigerna, was a daughter of Cellach Cualann, King of Leinster. [2] Her feast is listed in the Aberdeen Breviary for 7 January.

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Her husband is said to have been Feriacus regulus of Monchestre, who possibly is the same person as Feradach, grandson of Artúr of Dál Riata. [2]

Along with her brother St. Comgán and her son St. Fillan (Fáelán), the widowed Caintigern is said to have lived as a hermit, first in Strath Fillan, then in the Lennox, on the island of Inchcailloch on Loch Lomond. [2] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Saint Kentigerna", Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. 1 2 3 "Caintigern (Kentigerna)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

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