Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume V: May. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
May 17St. Cathan, Bishop and Confessor
| HE flourished in the sixth or seventh century. His relics in the isle of Bute were so famous in Scotland, that the island was often called Kil-cathan. 1 See Breviar. Aberd. and Scoti-chr. | 1 |
| Note 1. Kil signifies a church or oratory, as Kilbraid, Kilpatrick, &c. [back] |