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Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles, even as a child.
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Saint Kessog
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He left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland. Using Monks" Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as Street Kessog"s Cairn. Kessog was killed in 520 AD. The Street McKessog"s church in Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond is named after Kessog and the church contains an effigy of the saint.
Elsewhere in Scotland, the medieval parish churches of Auchterarder and Comrie, both in Perthshire, were dedicated to Kessog, and may have been founded by him or one of his followers.
The Kessock area of Inverness is named after the saint, as is the Kessog oil field in the North Sea. Soldiers had a special veneration for him and he"s portrayed in military dress with arrows and then bended bow.
As late as 1695 his bell, a sacred relic was listed among the funeral investitures of the Earldom of Perth.
