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Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew's monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later resigned and resumed his eremitical life at Glendochart, Pertchire, where he built a church and was reknowned for his miracles. Various legends attribute the most extravagant miracles to him, such as the one in which his prayers caused a wolf that had killed the ox he was using to drag materials to the church he was building, to take the ox's place. Fillan died on January 19. His feast day is January 19.

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Joseph Mathew
4 months ago
St. Fillan, please pray for me to lead a life dedicated to God.
Mona
4 months ago
Please pray for Jacob that he finds the right and peace, for his mother that the doctors can slow the progression of her disease and that all cancer patients deal with our disease with grace and dignity. thank you.
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4 months ago
19th jan 2013:st fillan pray for us!
EMMANUEL
1 year ago
I have just read about him. thanks
Steve
1 year ago
St Fillian, please pray for me and my hopeless cause.
Shauna
1 year ago
Thank you for yet another pearl of blessed wisdom in you educating and informing us of our beloved saints. St.Filan, intercede in our lives oh miracle worker of Scotland.Amen.
Gaby
1 year ago
St. Fillan, please pray from my cousin who's bipolar and suffers from depression.
christie
1 year ago
Dear St. Fillan, I pray to you today for my 94 year old mother who is in a coma. May she open her eyes and recognise me and smile at me. That is enough for she has had the most sweet and angelic conversation which I'll treasure as my last living memory of my mother. She wanted to be taken to attend Holy Mass and smilingly said that we don't love her. When I asked her why she said that we weren't taking her for Mass. She requested me to lay her on my lap. She recalled her youth as a time in her life when she worked very hard for the family and had little sleep. Then she wanted to wear her dentures. As always my mother was concerned that she was troubling us. I asked her whether she was in any pain, and she happily shook her head to say no. Very memorable conversation. Three days later she received the viaticum and Holy Communion. She as lapsed into unconsciousness. St. Fillan pray for Victoria Barbara Gonzales. Send the angels to minister to her. Mother Mary and St. Joseph pray for her. Amen.
Marcy Smith
2 years ago
Would you please be sure to include approximate birth and death YEARS in your write-ups of these saints. I have no idea in which CENTURY this saint lived.
Thank you.
gerald Lennon
2 years ago
Found it very helpful. Thank you!!
Corethia Qualls
2 years ago
Again, any hint of date(s) missing, so I have to go to Google, which I probably should have done in the first place. In other words, this site is not that user friendly.
C. Qualls
Buffy Lundy
2 years ago
Thank you, the more I learn the closer I feel to God. Thank you again.

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