The title of Scottish, applied to the holy ones whose names occur
in these short notices, must be understood to refer not so much to
their nationality as to the field in which, they laboured or the
localities where traces of their _cultus_ are to be found. The
Calendar here submitted does not pretend to be exhaustive; the saints
therein noted are those who appear prominently in such records as
remain to us and in the place-names which still recall their
personalities.
In this new edition much additional information has been inserted,
and many emendations made to render the Calendar as complete as
possible.
The chief sources relied upon in the compilation of the work are:
_The Breviary of Aberdeen_, drawn up by Bishop Wm. Elphinstone, and
printed in 1509.
Dr. Forbes' _Kalendars of Scottish Saints_.
_Origines Parochiales Scotiae_.
Dr. Skene's _Celtic Scotland_.
Canon O'Hanlon's _Lives of Irish Saints_.
Cardinal Moran's _Irish Saints in Great Britain_.
_New Statistical Account of Scotland_.
The date at the head of each notice is generally that of the death
of the saint concerned.