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Fillan of Pittenweem

For Fillan of Strath Fillan, see Fillan.

Saint Fillan was a sixth-century Scottish monk active in Fife. His feast day is 20 June.^[1]

Fillan of Pittenweem is not to be confused with the later Fillan of Munster, who settled at Strath Fillan.^[1]^[2] Fillan of Pittenweem worked in Aberdour, (where the parish church bears his name), as well as in Forgan. On the top of Dunfillan near Comrie was a rocky seat where, according to tradition, Fillan sat and gave his blessing to the country 'round. Up until the eighteenth century, there was a belief that sitting there could be beneficial for rheumatism of the back. A stone basin at the bottom the hill, was known as "Fillan's Spring", whose water was said to cure sore eyes.^[1]

According to historian and antiquary William Forbes Skene, the village of St Fillans, on the eastern end of Loch Earn, takes its name from him.^[1]

Fillan of Pittenweem died at the disert of Tyrie near Kinghorn^[2]

St Fillan's Cave

St Fillan's Cave, situated in Cove Wynd,

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fillan

FILLAN, FOILAN, or FELAN (with other varieties of form), Saint (d. 777?), was an Irish missionary in Scotland in the middle of the eighth century. The date of his death has been conjecturally assigned to about 777. His commemoration day in the Scottish calendar is 9 Jan. He was the son of Feredach, a prince in Munster, and Kentigerna, daughter of Kellach Cualann, king of Leinster, and sister to St. Congan. His mother died in A.D. 734. Being thrown into a river on his birth on account of deformity, he was rescued by St. Ibar. He became a monk at first in one of the monasteries of St. Munnu Fintan, and subsequently went from Ireland to the part of Argyll afterwards called Ross, where two churches, Kilkoan and Killellan, derive their names respectively from his uncle Congan and himself. A cave and a church were also named from him in Fife. But he seems chiefly to have made his abode at Killin in Perthshire, where a river, a strath, an abbey built by him and Congan in Glendochart, and a church, all perpetu

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Fillan

This article is about the 8th century saint. For the monk of Pittenweem, see Fillan of Pittenweem. For the village in Hitra, Norway, see Fillan, Norway.

Saint Fillan, Filan, Phillan, Fáelán (Old Irish) or Faolán (modern Gaeilge & Gàidhlig) is the name of an eighth century monk from Munster, who having studied at Taghmon Abbey, traveled to Scotland and settled at Strath Fillan.

Name

The name Fillan probably means "little wolf" in Irish / Gaeilge, being formed on a diminutive of faol, an old word for the animal. In Irish/Gaeilge the name Faolán is pronounced 'Fway-lawn'.

Life

St. Fillan of Munster, the son of Feriach, grandson of Cellach Cualann, King of Leinster, received the monastic habit at the Abbey of Fintán of Taghmon in Wexford and came to Scotland from Ireland in 717 as a hermit along with his Irish princess-mother St. Kentigerna, and his Irish prince-uncle St. Comgan.^[1] They settled at Loch Duich.

After spending some time with his uncle Saint Comgan at Lochalsh, where Killilan (Kilfillan) bears his name, the sa