Saint Duthus of Ross

Also known as

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

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 after 7 years, 6 months and 9 days
• 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
• Gazeteer for Scotland
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Medieval Religion Listserv, by John Dillon
• 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. 9 March 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>