Baring-Gould’s sources: Colgan on Jan. 21. In a Missal of Propers for Irish and French Patrons, pub. at Paris in 1734, by authority of Clement XII. on Oct. 6. Authorities: — Mention in the Life of S. Cadroe, and in the Appendix to Frodoard.] S. Maccallin, or Malcallin, an Irishman, visited France, together with S. Cadroe and some others, in 945 or 946. Cadroe was of the royal house of the Scots of North Britain. He, and probably Malcallin with him, came to Boulogne, and thence went to S. Furse/s monastery at Peronne, where Cadroe prayed to God that he would, through the merits of S. Fursey, point him out a place where he should plant his staff and rest. On the following night the Saint appeared to him in a vision, and told him that he must go elsewhere. Not far from Peronne there lived a pious and wealthy lady named Hersendis, who was very kind to pilgrims. On hearing that some such persons had arrived in her neighbourhood, she sent to them, requesting that they would visit her. They complied with her wish, and on conversing with her, said that all they wanted was a retired spot where they might serve God in peace and work for their bread. She then gladly offered them a spot in the forest called “ Theorascencis,” near the river Oise, in the diocese of Laon and adjoining the frontiers of Hainault, and where there was a church under the invocation of S. Michael. They liked the place, and Hersendis got the church enlarged and habitations erected for their use. Among these pilgrims, who in all were thirteen, was Maccallin, whose name now occurs for the first time. Where he met with Cadroe we are not informed, nor whether he had travelled with him all the way from Scotland, but it is not improbable that he had. Wheresoever it was that these holy men first met, they and their companions having settled at S. Michael's, proceeded to elect a superior, and S. Cadroe was fixed upon for the purpose. But as he could not be persuaded to accept the office, Maccallin was compelled to be their abbot. After a while, the abbot and Cadroe resolved to join the Order of S. Benedict; and to attain their purpose, Maccallin went to Gorz, a monastery in the diocese of Metz, and Cadroe to Fleury, on the Loire. When Maccallin had received the monastic habit, Hersendis sent to the Abbot Agenald, of Gorz, requesting him to suffer Maccallin to proceed to a place she had destined as the seat of a new monastery. This was Waulsort, on the Meuse, between Dinant and Givet, a spot of enchanting beauty, shut in by limestone crags and rich forests. Maccallin accordingly became Abbot of Waulsort, without surrendering his direction of S. Michael’s. Cadroe became his prior. But after some time, Maccallin, finding the direction of two establishments more than he could manage, begged S. Cadroe to become Abbot of Waulsort. To this S. Bruno.

S. Cadroe consented with difficulty, a.d. 950. Cadroe was afterwards Abbot of S. Clements, at Metz, and died in a.d. 975, at the age of seventy. His commemoration is on the 6th of March. S. Maccallin, having returned to S. Michael’s, spent there the remainder of his days, and died on Jan. 21st, Another Maccallin, or Macallan, bishop and confessor [in old usage, a saint who was not martyred, or who suffered for the faith without being killed], is honoured in Scotland on September 6, and is mentioned on that day by the Martyrology of Donegal. He was bishop at Lusk; his Acts are preserved in MS. in Trinity College, Dublin. He died about a.d. 497. He is said in them “ to have twice visited Scotland, and to be in repute there.”