ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINT FELAN, ABBOT St Felan's [Foelan, Fillan, Faolan] name is famous in the ancient Scottish and Irish Calendars. The example and instructions of his pious parents, Feriach and St Kentigerna , inspired him from the cradle with the most ardent love of virtue. In his youth, despising the flattering worldly advantages to which high birth and a great fortune entitled him, he received the monastic habit from a holy abbot named Mundus, and passed many years in a cell at some distance from the monastery, not far from St Andrew’s. HE RECEIVED THE MONASTIC HABIT He was by compulsion drawn from this close solitude, being chosen abbot. His sanctity in this public station shone forth with a bright light. After some years, he resigned this charge, and retired to his uncle Congan, brother to his mother, in a place called Siracht, a mountainous part of Glendarchy, now in Fifeshire, where,...