There is no record of his having visited what is now Scotland, but followers of his cult may have founded a monastery among the Picts at St Vigeans as early as the 8th century.

Most of the stones were recovered from the parish church, into whose walls they had been incorporated as building rubble during the Middle Ages, during 19th-century 'restoration' work.

A monastic context for the St Vigeans' sculptures is suggested by some of the stones showing representations of clerics and patristic scenes.

[4] The old village of St Vigeans consisted of a single street of red sandstone cottages flanking the foot of the church mound.

The Brothock Burn runs past the village and so through Arbroath (formerly Aberbrothock [and variants]), and is crossed by a bridge of 17th-century origin.