Saint Kennocha (or Kennoch, Kennotha, Kevoca, Kyle, Enoch; died 1007) was a Scottish nun who is venerated as a saint in the area of
Glasgow
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, Scotland.
She is remembered on 13 and 25 March.
She is included in the 1921 ''
Book of Saints
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'' by the
Monks of Ramsgate
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.
Dunbar's account
The hagiographer Agnes B. C. Dunbar wrote,
Butler's account
According to
Alban Butler
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,
St Quivox
The name of the church and parish of
St. Quivox in
Ayrshire
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, Scotland, is thought to be a variant of ''Santa Kennocha Virgo in Coila'', or Saint Kennocha.
Other forms of the name include St. Kevock, St Kenochis, St. Cavocks and St. Evox.
However, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints says that the church of Quivox is named after Saint Kevoca, often thought to be Scottish, who was in fact the Irish saint
Mo-Choemoc.
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Female saints of medieval Scotland
1007 deaths