Kennocha

Saint Kennocha (Kennoch, Kyle, Enoch, Kevoca), the holy nun, was a Scottish nun venerated as a saint in the area around Glasgow, and reposed in the year 1007. She is mentioned in the 1921 Book of Saints of the monks of Ramsgate.

The accounts of her say that she was of noble birth, perhaps of a royal family, very beautiful and full of virtues, and wished to consecrate herself to Christ. Being the only daughter and heiress of a rich family, she rejected suitors and worldly friends, and endured many persecutions and hardships from her parents and others, which she overcame by patience and constancy. She made her profession in a great nunnery in Fife, reached the perfection of the virtues through love of poverty, ascetic struggle and prayer, and worked miracles that made her name known. She passed to the Lord in a good old age, in the reign of King Malcolm II. Several churches in Scotland bore her name, among them one near Glasgow, still called St Kennoch's Kirk, and another, whose name is an abbreviation of hers, Kyle. She is commemorated on 25 March (in other sources also on 13 March), by the Western calendar (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.