Baring-Gould’s sources: The Aberdeen Breviary on Nov. 3. Adam King’s Kalendar gives Maura on Nov. 2, and “ Baye, virgin in Scotland under King Donald,” on Nov. 1. It is probable that Baya has been confounded with Begha or Bees, Nov. 1. There were two S. Beghas, and Baya — only another form of Begha— is a third, distinct from the other two. Dempster, in his Scottish Menology, gives Bay, virgin, friend to Donald VI., on Nov. 1, S. Maura (Maur) was a solitary who lived at Killmaur in Ayrshire, in the reign of Donald VI. (893-904). S. Baya (Begha), who was intimate with the King, is said to have inhabited the island of Cumbrae, where she lived in solitude, surrounded by beasts and birds, and where she received the visits of S. Maura. What S. Maura learnt from this holy woman she taught to the virgins associated with her in the religious life. Nothing could exceed the austerity of these saints. S. Maura finished her life at Killmaur where she had lived. S. Baya died in her island, where a chapel was raised over her remains. The love of solitude that disNot. a.] S. WiUebold of Berkheim.

…tinguished her in life was attested by miracles after death: for the rector of the church of Dunbar, attempting to carry off her relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor], encountered so great a storm that he was obliged to desist The chapel still exists in Little Cumbrae, near the top of the hill, a little north of the castle. It is thirty-three feet long by eighteen feet wide.