Saint Vimin (or Gwynnin, Vimianus, Viminus, Vimmin, Vinim, Vivian, Wynnia, Wynnin; died 579) was a Scottish abbot and bishop.
He is said to have founded
Holywood Abbey
Dercongal Abbey (or Holywood Abbey) was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
History
The date of its foundation is not known, but it was certainly in existence as a Premonstratensian monastic community by 12 ...
in
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
, Scotland.
However, there are no reliable sources for his life.
His feast day is 21 January.
Name and heritage
The parish of
Kirkgunzeon
Kirkgunȝeon ( gd, Cill Fhionnain) is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. The village is south west of Dumfries and north east of Dalbeattie. The civil parish is in the former county of Kirkcudbrightshire, ...
in southwest Scotland was called Kirkwynnin in 1200.
William J. Watson
William John Watson FRSE LLD (1865 – 9 March 1948) was a toponymist, one of the greatest Scottish scholars of the 20th century, and was the first scholar to place the study of Scottish place names on a firm linguistic basis.
Life
Watson ...
(1865–1948) states that the name appears to combine ''kirk'' (church) with the Welsh form of ''Finnén'', an affectionate name for
Findbarr of Moyville, also called Findia.
Findbarr's death was recorded in 579 as "quies Uinniani episcopi" (Bishop Uinniani died).
The nearby Kylliemingan probably is '' Cill m'Fhinnéin'', meaning "my Finnén's church."
Monks of Ramsgate accounts
The monks of
St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
St Augustine's Abbey or Ramsgate Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ramsgate. It was built in 1860 by Augustus Pugin and is a Grade II listed building. It was the first Benedictine monastery to be built in England since the Reformation. In ...
wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921),
Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler
Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer.
Biography
Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when ...
(1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under January 21,
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Medieval Scottish saints
579 deaths