Dear Mr Bullock, If you can wait a little while for St Maurice I will send him to you but I am very busy just now, and could not turn my mind to it immediately. I have Baring Gould and Alban Butler both also Fleury

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Lady Mary I am afraid I never heard of the name of Filian, unless it comes from the Scottish Saint Filam, St Fillan’s cave, Glenfillan. But that was a man, a Fifeshire abbot to whose good will the Scots attributed their victory at Bannockburn. At least so says Alban Butler and Baring Gould, and the latter gives as date 7th century, I cannot get nearer. Somehow I believe there was no capital F in ... continue reading