Baring-Gould’s sources: German Martyrologies. Authority A Passion by Ercenfried, Abbot In 1012, when Henry I. was Emperor of Germany, a Scottish or Irish pilgrim travelled through Austria on his way to the Holy Land. His name, he said, was Colman. Ignorant of the language, he created suspicion among the peasants, and was dragged before a magistrate on the charge of being a spy. The poor fellow was unable to explain in German what he was and whence he came, and his silence was regarded as all the more suspicious. The judge ordered him to be racked till he confessed, but the rack would not teach him German, and a smith was allowed to wrench off pieces of his flesh with hot pincers. He was then hung with a couple of malefactors. Some miracles being supposed to be wrought by his dead body, he was as hastily concluded to be a saint as he had before been regarded as a spy, and lively imaginations setting to work on the theme, transformed him into a Scottish prince, son of Malcolm III. and Margaret Scottish historians are of course profoundly ignorant of this.

The place of the martyrdom of Colman was Stockerau. The body was afterwards translated to and enshrined at Molk. Various indulgences have been granted by Paschal II., Clement VI., Innocent IV., and Leo X. to those venerating the relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor].