Saint Conval
Irish missionary and saint
Feast: 28 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Conval (Conwall) (died c.630) was an Irish-born missionary who, according to legend recorded in the Aberdeen Breviary, as he was praying on the sea shore "to be borne, by whatsoever means, to the regions beyond the sea", was miraculously carried by the stone he stood on across the Irish Sea to Inchinnan in Scotland. He was active in the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the area of East Renfrewshire, where there were “Conval wells” in Barrhead and Thornliebank. He is believed to have founded churches at Inchinnan, Pollokshaws and Fereneze (near Barrhead). His bones were preserved in an impressive sarcophagus at the Inchinnan church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- David I of Scotland Saint“In the 12th century David I of Scotland gave the Knights Templar a church in Inchinnan dedicated to Saint Conval, it was replaced by 'Hallows Church' in 1900, then demolished in 1965 for the extensions of Abbotsinch airfield into Glasgow Airport.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q25184520 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Conval (CC BY-SA)
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