Saints celebrated on the 17th of May
SAINT CATHAN OF BUTE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR
Saint Cathan flourished in the sixth or seventh century. His relics in the isle of Bute were so famous in Scotland, that the island was often called Kil-cathan.
Kil signifies a church or oratory, as Kilbraid, Kilpatrick, etc.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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Cathan (Catan, Cadan) was a saint who flourished in the sixth or possibly in the seventh century. He appears to have been a Bishop in the Isle of Bute, often called after him Kil-cathan. He was, it is said, Irish by birth, and the uncle of Saint Blane. Colgan says that he died after A.D. 560, and his tomb is shown at Tamlacht near Londonderry. The Scots contend that he rests in the Isle of Bute. It is possible that there may have been two Saints of the name.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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