Saint Serf

Serf came to Rome, carrying with him such a reputation for sanctity that he was elected and served as Pope for seven years.

There, he met Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, who showed him an island in Loch Leven (later called St Serf's Inch).

"Finally, after many miracles, after divine virtues, after founding many churches, [Saint Serf], having given his peace to the brethren, yielded up his spirit in his cell at Dunning, on the first day of the Kalends of July; and his disciples and the people of the province take his body to Cuilenross [Culross], and there, with psalms and hymns and canticles, he was honourably buried.

A legend states that when the British princess (and future saint) Theneva (Thenaw) became pregnant before marriage, her family threw her from a cliff.

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