Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
The second legend, which emanated from St. Andrews itself, is much more
elaborate.[492] The first part of this form of the legend states that in
the year 345 Constantine collected a great army to invade Patras, in
order to avenge the martyrdom of St. Andrew and remove his relics; that
an angel appeared and ordered Regulus, the bishop, with his clergy, to
proceed to the sarcophagus in which the bones of St. Andrew were
enshrined, and to take a part of them, consisting of three fingers of
the right hand, a part of one of the arms, the pan of one of the knees,
and one of the teeth, and conceal them; that the following day
Constantine entered the city and carried off to Rome the shrine
containing the rest of the bones; that he then laid waste the Insula
Tyberis and Colossia, and took from thence the bones of St. Luke and St.
Timothy, and carried them to Constantinople along with the relics of St.
Andrew. The second part of this legend is an elaboration of the second
part of the other. The Pictish king is called Hungus, son of Ferlon. His
enemy is Adhelstan, king of the Saxons; and he is encamped at the mouth
of the river Tyne. The night before the battle St. Andrew appears to
Hungus in a dream and promises him the victory, and tells him that his
relics will be brought to his kingdom, and the place where they are
brought will become honoured and celebrated. The people of the Picts
swear to venerate St. Andrew ever after if they prove victorious.
Adhelstan is defeated, and his head is taken off and carried to a place
called _Ardchinnechun_, or Queen’s Harbour. According to the third part
of this form of the legend, some days after this victory the angel of
God appears a second time to the blessed bishop Regulus, and warns him
to sail towards the north with the relics of St. Andrew which he had
reserved, and, wherever his vessel should be wrecked, there to erect a
church in honour of St. Andrew. Bishop Regulus, accordingly, accompanied
by holy men, sails towards the north, voyages among the islands of the
Grecian Sea for a year and a half, and wherever he lands erects an
oratory in honour of St. Andrew. At length they direct their sails
towards the north, and on the eve of St. Michael arrive at the land of
the Picts, at a place once called _Muckros_, but now Kylrimont; and, his
vessel being wrecked, he erects a cross he had brought from Patras, and
remains there seven days and nights. Having intrusted the care of this
place to the seniors St. Damian and his brother Merinach, Regulus and
the rest go with the relics to Forteviot, and find there the three sons
of King Hungus—viz. Owen, Nectan, and Finguine—who, being anxious as to
the life of their father, then on an expedition in the region of
Argathelia, give a tenth part of Forteviot to God and St. Andrew. They
then go to a place called Moneclatu, but now Monichi, and there Finchem,
the queen of King Hungus, is delivered of a daughter called Mouren, who
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