Saint Maccai (or Machai, Maccæus, Mahew) was an Irish missionary who founded a monastery on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.
[2] John O'Hanlon (1821–1905) wrote of Babolin in his Lives of the Irish Saints under April 11.
In the Island of Bute, Thomas Dempster places Maccaeus, a prophet, as also, a disciple to St. Patrick, Apostle of the Irish, and, at the 11th of April.
By Dempster, Macaeus is called, likewise, a sweet poet, a medicus and a distinguished mathematician.
Alban Butler enters St. Maccai, Abbot, at the 11th of April, when his feast is found, likewise, in the Circle of the Seasons.