Baring-Gould’s sources: Aberdeen Breviary. In the Scottish Menology of David Camerarius S. Fyncana on Aug. 21, and S. Findocha on May 31.] The Aberdeen Breviary says that Fyncana and Findoch died respectively in 526 and 716. But Hector Boece says that they were daughters of S. Donevald, or Donald (July 12), who, with his nine daughters, is said by local tradition to have led a religious life in the glen of Ogilvy, in Forfarshire, where they are still remembered as the Nine Maidens. After his death they are said to have gone to Abemethy. Boece, however, makes only seven maidens. The church of Finaven was dedicated to the Nine Maidens, so also was Strathmartin. There is a Nine Maiden Well there, and in the park at Glamis. But there were other nine maidens brought over by S. Bridget — chief of whom was S. Mazota (Dec. 23) — who are often confounded with the daughters of S. Donald.

In the Breviary of Aberdeen is a note or rubric that Fyncana was venerated at Echt in the diocese of Aberdeen, and Findocha at the archidiaconate of the diocese of Dunblane, this is probably Findo-Gask. At Bendochy, near Cupar Angus, there was anciently a chapel at S. Phink, dedicated to that saint; a small part of the ruins remain. S. Congan.

& CONGAN, AB. (8th cent.) [Aberdeen Breviary. Tamlacht and Donegal Martyrologies on Aug. 2, as S. Comgan or Coemgen. But this cannot be the same as the Scottish S. Congan.] S. Congan, more correctly Comgan, brother of S. Kentigema and uncle of S. Fillan, was the son of a prince of Leinster, and was in youth trained as a soldier. On succeeding his father, he governed his dominions with prudence and rectitude; but, on being attacked by his neighbours, he was conquered, and obliged to fly, wounded in the foot by an arrow. His sister Kentigema was married to Feradach, Prince of Monchestree. According to Irish accounts Congan was the son of Ceallach Cualann (d. 715), Prince of Leinster, and forefather of the O’Kellys, who possessed Rathdown in the county of Dublin till the 14th century. The expulsion of Congan from his kingdom led also to that of his sister and her sons. Accordingly Congan, with Kentigema and her son Fillan, 1 and seven clerks, betook themselves to Lochelch in Northern Argyle, where they led a severe life. After the death of his uncle, S. Fillan built a church in his honour, and buried him in Iona. There are in the neighbourhood of Lochelch two churches, Kilchoan (Congan) and Killellan (Fillan), which bear record to the truth of this story.

1 The Aberdeen Breviary makes her the mother of Fillan, Furxey, and Ultan, but SS. Furze y and Ultan were sons of Finnloga, Prince of South Munster, by Gelges, daughter of Adhfinn, Prince of Hy-Brinn in Connaught. Fillan, or Foilan, was brother of S. Furzey, but this was not the same Fillan as the son of S. Kentigema.