Saint Duthus of Ross

Also known as

• Chief Confessor of Ireland and Scotland
• Dothow of Ross
• Dubtach of Ross
• Duthac of Ross
• Duthacus of Ross
• Duthak of Ross

Memorial

• 8 March

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Educated in Ireland. Bishop of Ross, Scotland.

Born

• c.1000 in Tain, Scotland

Died

• 8 March 1065 in Ireland of natural causes
• interred in the original Saint Duthus Chapel at Tain, Scotland
• body found to be incorrupt
• relics translated to the Saint Duthus Collegiate Church in the 14th century
• relics destroy in 1560 as part of the Protestant Reformation

Canonized

• 11 July 1898 by Pope Leo XIII

Patronage

• Tain, Scotland

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Gazeteer for Scotland
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Duthus of Ross”. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 March 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-duthus-of-ross/>