A Calendar of Scottish Saints

A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett is an engaging guide to the lives, feast days, and local cults that shaped Scotland’s sacred landscape. This historical reference and hagiography collects short notices of the holy men and women whose memory survives in church dedications, place‑names, and liturgical calendars, presenting a concise day‑by‑day companion to Scotland’s devotional past. Barrett’s revised and augmented edition draws on key sources—such as the Aberdeen Breviary, Dr. Forbes’s calendars, Skene’s Celtic Scotland, and Irish hagiographies—to map the reach of Celtic Christianity across parishes and monasteries. The book explains that “Scottish” often denotes the field of activity or surviving cult rather than strict nationality, and it provides dates (usually of death), historical context, and the traces left in local tradition. Themes include monastic networks, missionary activity, and the intertwining of place‑names with saintly veneration. Ideal for students of religious history, Celtic Christianity enthusiasts, genealogists, clergy, and anyone fascinated by Scotland’s cultural heritage, this audiobook offers a scholarly yet accessible exploration of the saints who shaped Scotland’s spiritual identity.