Kessog
Irish saint
Feast: 10 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Kessog was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles, even as a child. He left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland. Using Monks' Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as St Kessog's Cairn. He was killed in 520 AD.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 10 March — "ST KESSOG, Bishop and Martyr (Sixth Century)" — a full entry, feast 10 March, as on the page.
- Wikidata Q6395211 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Kessog (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.