Monan
[d. 7th c.]
Monan, or Moinenn as he was called in his native Celtic language, was a bishop of the who preached to the Scots in Fife, and nobody knows much else. Of course there was a modest shrine housing the saint’s bones after his death, but the real monument was built in the 14th century by a wounded king. He’d been shot with two arrows in the battle of Neville’s Cross, one which nobody could seem to take out. So the king made a pilgrimage to Monan’s shrine, and the arrow leaped from the wound. I was reading about the crumbled ruins of the castle he erected in Monan’s honor, and one guidebook offered this: “Truly the glory of this world passeth away!”