St. Fillan’s Crozier
St. Fillan's Crozier is an 8th century Insular crozier crook (or head) traditionally associated with the Irish monk Fillan, St. Fillan (Gaelic: Fáelán; "little wolf"),McDonald (2013), p. 66 who lived in the eighth century at Glendochart in Perthshire, central Scotland. Only the crook survives; the staff was lost at an unknown date. Sometime around the late 13th century it was encased in the Coigreach (or Quigrich), a crosier-shrine of similar size and form built as a protective case,McKeown (1933), p. 246 made from silver, gold and rock crystal and dating from the late 13th century, with additions c. the 14th or 15th centuries. The Coigreach was rediscovered in the mid-19th century by the archaeologist Daniel Wilson (academic), Daniel Wilson, who opened it and found St. Fillan's Crozier inside. Records show that the original wooden crozier (Scottish Gaelic: ''Baculus'') was used for blessings and as a talisman or battle standard: it is recorded as having been brought onto the f ...
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