Venerable
Boisil of Melrose
Prior of Melrose
Prior of Melrose and teacher of Saint Cuthbert, reposed in 661.
- Feast
- February 23old style March 8
- Reposed
- 6617th century
- Place
- Melrose Abbey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Boisil of Melrose was a monk and then prior of Melrose Abbey, an offshoot of Lindisfarne in Northumbria (now in Scotland), one of the first generation of its monks, probably moved there when the abbey was founded in the late 640s. He was the teacher of Saint Cuthbert. He reposed in the year 661. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 23 February (new calendar).
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