24 August 2026

St Irchard or Erthad, Bishop, Confessor in Scotland


From Fr Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints:

ST. PALLADIUS sent Servanus to preach to the northern islands of Orkney and Saint Ternan bishop to the Picts, who is titular saint of the cathedral of Abernethy, and many other churches. St. Irchard was bishop of the Picts about the same time according to some Scottish historians; but more probably, according to others, about the reign of Malcolm I. See the Breviary of Aberdeen, and Cuper the Bollandist, p. 773.

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