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July 15 · —

St. Donald

St. Donald

Traditional feast

July 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on July 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Scottish Kolendars and Aberdeen Breviary.] S. Donald, or Donevaldus, 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 Abernethy, where they lived in a hollow oak. The church of Finaven appears to have been an early foundation, dedicated probably to the Nine Maidens. So also Strathmartin. There is a Nine Maiden Well there, and in the park at Glamis. Jaljr xM Reginswinda.

Feast days

Feast: July 15

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Donald's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on July 15
A

Sts. Antiochus and Cyriac

July 15 · Martyrs
J

St. James of Nisibis

July 15 · Bishop
St. Apronia

St. Apronia

July 15 · Virgin
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.