Ultan

Saint Ultan was, in the eighth century, born in Ireland, a priest at the monastery of Saint Peter in Crayke in Yorkshire, England. He excelled in the art of illumination.

He is commemorated on 8 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life. He is not to be confused with Saint Ultan, the brother of Saint Fursey, abbot at Fosses and Péronne in Gaul in the seventh century, commemorated in early May.