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Gilbert de Moravia

Bishop of Caithness

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 1 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1101
Died
1245
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Gilbert de Moravia (died 1245), later known as Saint Gilbert of Dornoch, or Gilbert of Caithness, was the most famous Bishop of Caithness and founder of Dornoch Cathedral. His name may suggest that he came from the semi-Gaelicized family of Flemish origin who were Lords of Duffus, and who during Gilbert's episcopate would create the Earldom of Sutherland under Gilbert's possible cousin, William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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