Fergus

Saint Fergus of Glamis (Fergus Cruithneach, the Pict) was an Irish-⁠trained bishop and missionary in Scotland who reposed around 730, or 721 according to the calendars.

He was probably from the north-⁠east of present-⁠day Scotland, though the place of his birth is not known. The Aberdeen Breviary says that he had been a bishop in Ireland for many years when he went on a mission to Alba with chosen priests. He settled first near Strageath in Strathearn and built three churches in that district; then he preached in Caithness, where he established the churches of Wick and Halkirk. The church he built at Glamis was of wood and clay. He was buried at Glamis, where Saint Fergus' Well is preserved, and the village church at Eassie is dedicated to him. In the time of King James IV the abbot of Scone took his head to Scone and made an expensive shrine for it; Aberdeen obtained an arm of the saint. He is the patron of Glamis and Wick.

He is a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 27 November (New Calendar); in Scotland his day was formerly 18 November.