Baring-Gould’s sources: Aberdeen Breviary, March 30 and Oct 17. Camerarius, Dempster, and Adam King, in their Scottish Kalendars and Martyrologies. But the Irish Martyrologies have, “ Regulus of Mac-Inis in Dalgeis,” on Oct. 16. Authority: — The Legend in the Aberdeen Breviary.] According to the fable in the Aberdeen Breviary, S. Rule or Regulus was a native of Patras in Achaia, in the reign of Constantius, who was entrusted with the guardianship of the relics of S. Andrew, the Apostle and Martyr. Now it suddenly occurred to the emperor that as some three hundred and odd years had elapsed since the martyrdom of this apostle, and no notice had been taken of it, it was high time that the city should be chastised for having been partaker in the murder of S. Andrew. Accordingly Constantius prepared an army and marched against Patras. Then Regulus was visited by an angel in the night, who bade him carry off three fingers of the right hand, an arm-bone, one tooth, a knee-cap, and escape with these valuable relics to a place which the angel would indicate.

Regulus accordingly opened the shrine of the apostle, and made off* with such bones as he was bidden take. He rambled on and on, across Britain, till he came to where now «S. Regulus.

stands the city of S. Andrew's, in Scotland, and there the angel appeared to him again, and bade him deposit his precious burden. S. Regulus settled there, and began to preach to the Piets and Scots, and having been ordained bishop, became the first bishop of the See of S. Andrew's. He was greatly assisted by King Hung, apparently an historical character, who fixes the date of S. Rule; for Hung, King of the Piets, is, no doubt, Angus MacFergus, who defeated the Dalriadans. After the battle he founded S. The oldest form of the legend is found in the Colbertine MS. in the Bibliothfeque Nationale at Paris. According to this, S. Andrew, after preaching to the northern nations, the Scythians and Piets, received in charge the district of Achaia, with the city of Patras, and was there crucified; that his bones remained there till the time of Constantine the Great, and his sons Constantius and Constans, for 270 years, when they were removed to Constantinople, where they remained till the reign of the Emperor Theodosius [name of Roman emperors; Theodosius I (379–395) made Christianity the state religion]. Not a word is said therein of S. Regulus, but S. Andrew is made an apostle of the Piets. The custodian who runs off with the relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] occurs, but his name is not given.

It is possible that there may have been a Riaghail abbot or bishop at S. Andrew's, who may have procured the relics, or bones which he was pleased to consider as relics, of S. Andrew, but nothing historical is known of him. Riaghail, in Latin Regulus, Abbot of Mincinis in Lough Derry, who is commemorated in the Irish martyrologies on Oct. 16, died 1 He is the Unuist of Simeon of Durham, the Oeng of the continuer of Bede [English monk and historian (d. 735)]. He reigned between 731 and 761. He defeated the Britons of Aldyde in 750; and made alliance with the Northumbrian king Eadbert in 756. 1 St. Andrew’s/' in the Proceedings of the Scottish Antiq. Soc. voL iv.