(7TH CENT.)
[Aberdeen Breviary. Authorities:--David Camerarius and Hector Boece,
and the lections in the Aberdeen Breviary.]
Alban Quiritine, or Kiritine, surnamed Boniface, is fabulously said
to have been of Israelite race, and a descendant of Radia, sister of
the apostles Peter and Andrew. All that is known of him is that he
was bishop of Ross, in Scotland, and that he laboured to suppress the
Keltic ritual and to establish Roman uniformity, doing in Scotland
the work accomplished by S. Wilfrid in Northumbria. He preached to
and converted large numbers of Picts and Scots, during sixty years of
evangelical labours. It is said that as many as thirty-six thousand
received the faith through him, and that he built a hundred and fifty
churches, amongst others, that of S. Peter, at Rosmarkyn, in which he
was buried before the altar.