Fumac of Scotland

Fumac of Scotland is a saint venerated at Botriphnie (Botriffnie), also called Fumac Kirk, in Scotland. His age is not known, nor whether he was of Irish or Scottish birth.

His well was known in the district, and his fair was kept on 3 May. At the beginning of the eighteenth century an old woman washed his wooden image each year in the well with great solemnity. The image survived until the early nineteenth century, when the flood of the river Isla carried it off and stranded it at Banff, where the parish minister, regarding it as an idol, committed it to the flames. The source is O'Hanlon, Lives of the Irish Saints (1875). He is honoured in the Scottish and Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.