Saint Monan

Memorial

• 1 March

Profile

Monk at Saint Andrew’s abbey. Spiritual student of Saint Adrian, bishop of Saint Andrew’s. Missionary to the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth area in Scotland. Missionary to Fife, Scotland. Murdered with a group of Christians by Danish raiders.

Died

• murdered in 874 in the area of the Firth of Forth, Scotland

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Lives of the Saints, by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Monan“. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 February 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>