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Venerable

Dotto

A holy monk of the early Church in Scotland, reposed around 502.

Feast
April 9old style April 22
Reposed
5026th century

Life

Saint Dotto was abbot of a monastery in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland in the sixth century; our record places him around 502. No other reliable information about his life survives. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 9 April (new style; 22 April in the old style).

Commemorated the same day April 9