Saint Filan

Saint Filan

St Filan was an Augustinian monk from the priory on the Isle of May, Scotland.

St Filan left the Isle of May for Pittenweem in Fife and converted the local populace to Christianity. The Augustinians subsequently founded a Priory in Pittenweem.

He is supposed to have lived in St Filan's Cave, situated in Cove Wynd, Pittenweem, which is open to the public. The cave was rediscovered circa 1900 when a horse ploughing in the Priory garden fell down a hole into it. The cave has flat rocks that are presumed to be beds and a small spring of "holy water" at the rear.


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