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Usage History (Ecclesiastical)
Meaning & History
Scottish form of Cathán. The name coincides with Scottish Gaelic cathan "barnacle goose".
Saint Cathan was a 6th-century Irish monk revered as a saint in parts of the Scottish Hebrides of whom very little is known. He appears in the Aberdeen Breviary, Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, and the Acta Sanctorum, and a number of placenames in western Scotland are associated with him.
Saint Cathan was a 6th-century Irish monk revered as a saint in parts of the Scottish Hebrides of whom very little is known. He appears in the Aberdeen Breviary, Walter Bower's Scotichronicon, and the Acta Sanctorum, and a number of placenames in western Scotland are associated with him.