Some of the most vivid stained glass at Brechin Cathedral features images of Scottish saints. The stained glass by William Wilson is situated high up in the clerestory windows. On a sunny day, the bright colours of the glass reflect onto the Cathedral's stonework, producing kaleidoscopic patterns.
'Saint Columba (7 December 521 - 9 June 597), sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Colm Cille or Columcille (meaning "Dove of the church") was the outstanding figure among the Irish Gaelic missionary monks who some of his advocates claim, introduced Christianity to the Kingdom of the Picts during the Early Medieval period (Source: Wikipedia).'
'St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c. 634–20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop in the Kingdom of Northumbria which at that time included, in modern terms, north east England and south east Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth. Afterwards he became one of the most important medieval saints of England, with widespread recognition in the places he had been in Scotland.
Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria. His feast day is March 20. (Source: Wikipedia).'
'Saint Drostan (d. early 7th century), also Drustan, Dustan, and Throstan, was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Old Deer in Aberdeenshire. His relics were translated to the church at New Aberdour and his holy well lies nearby. Saint Drostan's day is July 11. The water of St. Drostan's Well is an important ingredient of Aberlour Pure Single Highland Malt Whisky (Source: Wikipedia).'
'St. Machar is believed to be a sixth-century Irish missionary active on the Isle of Mull and perhaps eastern Scotland. His existence and identity, however, have long been queried.
Legend claims that Machar was a son of Fiachna, Prince of Ulster (not the ancient Fiachna, High King of Ireland) and that he was given the name Mochumma when baptised as a young man by St. Colman of Kilmacduagh (Colman MacDuagh). He was supposedly one of the group of twelve men who accompanied St. Columba from Ireland into exile on Iona in 561, where they established the monastery that became the centre for Christian missionary work in Scotland and northern England. Machar is said to have worked mostly on the neighbouring Isle of Mull, but that the miracles he wrought there made others envious and Columba was asked to send him elsewhere. Columba supposedly told Machar to take their mission to the Pictish people of eastern Scotland, founding a church "where a river formed the shape of a crosier" (Source: Wikipedia).'
'Saint Margaret (c. 1045–1116 November 1093), was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. She married Malcolm III, King of Scots, becoming his Queen consort. (Source: Wikipedia).'
'Saint Mungo is the commonly used name for Saint Kentigern (also known as Cantigernus [Latin] or Cyndeyrn Garthwys [Welsh]). He was the late 6th century apostle of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in modern Scotland, and patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow (Source: Wikipedia).'
'Saint Ninian (c. 360-432) (also Nynia) is the earliest known bishop to have visited Scotland. Neither his place and date of birth, nor his early life, are known with any certainty. Also known as Saint Ringan (Source: Wikipedia).'