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Venerable Martyr

Malrubius

A hermit of Scotland, slain by Norse raiders around 1040.

Feast
August 27old style September 9
Reposed
104011th century
Place
Merns
Order
Martyrs

Life

Malrubius was a hermit of Merns in Kincardineshire in Scotland, slain by Norwegian invaders around the year 1040. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 27 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 9 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day August 27