ST. ADRIAN, bishop of St. Andrews, trained up this holy man from his
childhood, and when he had ordained him priest, and long employed him in
the service of his own church, sent him to preach the gospel in the isle
of May, lying to the bay of Forth. The saint exterminated superstition
and many other crimes and abuses, and having settled the churches of
that island in good order, passed into the county of Fife, and was there
martyred; being slain with above 6000 other Christians, by an army of
infidels who ravaged that country in 874. His relics were held in great
veneration at Innerny, in Fifeshire, the place of his martyrdom, and
were famous for miracles. King David II. having himself experienced the
effect of his powerful intercession with God, rebuilt his church at
Innerny of stone, to a stately manner, and founded a college of canons
to serve it. See King's calendar, and the manuscript life of this martyr
in the Scottish college at Paris and the Breviary of Aberdeen.
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