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INDEX OF SAINTS
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Uirgin : see St Mary, in Index of Saints.
Uirgines : Virgins. Dreme 556, Papyngo 775, Mon. 5643, 6137.
Ysaac : Isaac. Papyngo 971. Ysac : Mon. 2456.
Zacharies : Zacharias. Mon. 4063.
(ii) Index of Saints.
[I give the lives as accepted by ecclesiastical authorities: some will
not bear scientific investigation.]
Allan, St : Sat. 4325, " be sanct Allan ” [Bann. MS. " be sanct anne ”;]
Sat. 3192, “ be Sanct Allane ” [no Bann. MS. reading].
St Allan, otherwise St Elian, Eilan, was a sixth century Cornish
or Breton saint, frequently confused with St Hilary. Day: January 12.
Ambrose, St : Papyngo 988 ; Mon. 5680, “ Ambrose.”
St Ambrose, one of the four great doctors of the Church; born at
Arles, Treves, or Lyon; baptised 374 ; fought Arianism; excom¬
municated the Emperor Theodosius for the massacre at Thessalonica;
numerous important theological writings ; died April 4 397 at Milan.
Day: December 7.
Andrew, St : Papyngo 824, " Andrew ” ; Syde Taillis 53, " sanct
Androw ” ; Sat. 4580, “ Sanct Andrew ” ; Mon. 2303, " Sanct Andrew,
with his croce in hand ” ; Mon. 4541, “ Androw.”
Apostolic Martyr; brother of St Peter. After Christ’s death he
travelled extensively in Asia Minor and Greece. The pseudo-Dorotheus
says that he was crucified and buried at Patras in Achaia ; the pseudo-
Abdias records his travels, and death on an X-shaped cross. He was
the patron saint of Russia, and is still of Hungary, Burgundy, and
Scotland. Day : November 30.
Anne, St : Sat. 878, “ be sanct An ” ; Mon. 5688, " Anna ”. [See
also St Allan and St Tan.]
Mother of the Virgin Mary; life told in the Apocryphal Gospel of
St James, who named her and her husband, Joachim. Her cult only
grew up in Western Europe late in the Middle Ages. Day: July 26.
Anthony, St : Sat. 2099, " The gruntill of Sanct Antonis sow, / Quhilk
buir his haly bell ” ; Mon. 2305, " Sanct Anthone, sett vp with ane
soow ” ; Mon. 2381, “ [Sum] To sanct Anthony, to saif the soow.”
Life by St Athanasius; born 251 in upper Egypt of noble Egyptian
Christian family. After his parents died he placed his sister in a nunnery,
sold his goods, and became an ascetic, founding the first monastery
in the Thebais. Tormented by demons, but acquired fame as a religieux;
suffered in the Arian attacks on orthodox Christians. In art he is
represented with a pig which has a bell attached to its neck. The bell
is a common symbol of hermits; the pig may represent the subduing
of the flesh. He became patron of the Hospitallers, whose pigs were
exempted from ordinances forbidding those animals to run wild in the
streets. Day: January 17.