HIS zeal and labors in preaching the word of God, his contempt of
himself, his compassion for the poor and for sinners, his extreme love
of poverty, never reserving any thing for himself, and the extraordinary
austerity of his life, to which he had inured himself from his
childhood, are much extolled by the author of his life. The same writer
assures us, that he was famous for several miracles and predictions, and
that he foretold an invasion of the Danes, which happened ten years
after his death, in 1263, in the reign of Alexander III., when, with
their king Achol, they were defeated by Alexander Stuart,
great-grandfather to Robert, the first king of that family. This victory
was ascribed to the intercession of St. Andrew and St. Duthak. Our
saint, after longing desires of being united to God, passed joyfully to
bliss, in 1253. His relics, kept in the collegiate church of Thane, in
the county of Ross, were resorted to by pilgrims from all parts of
Scotland. Lesley, the pious bishop of Ross, (who, after remaining four
years in prison with queen Mary, passed into France, was chosen
suffragan of Rouen, by cardinal Bourbon, and died at Brussels, in 1591,)
had an extraordinary devotion to this saint, the chief patron of his
diocese. See Lesley, Descript. Scot. p. 27, and the MS. life of St.
Duthak, compiled by a Scottish Jesuit, nephew by the mother to bishop
Lesley, and native of that diocese. See also King in Calend.