Viganus

Viganus (Vigan) is named on 13 March in the anonymous calendar of Irish saints published by O'Sullevan Beare and, on the strength of the English Martyrology, in the list of Henry Fitzsimon. The day follows the Julian calendar.

He was a hermit in the province of Leven in Scotland; it is not known whether he was born in Ireland or in Scotland. After proving his vocation at the monastery of Cluny, he withdrew to an island of Loch Leven, to taste in solitude how good the Lord is. A legendary story makes him a friend of King Malcolm II, who is said to have defeated his enemy Grim in 1005 at Moeghanard (Monzievaird) in Strathearn. Camerarius records his death in 1012 and calls him a confessor and anchorite. O'Hanlon notes that Vigeanus may be the Latinized form of the name Fechin. He is honoured in the Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.