Natural Medicine

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Saint Fillan’s left arm glowed in the dark, the better to read Scripture in his cave. He was born in Munster with a stone in his mouth. When his father Feriach, son of Cellach Cualann, King of Leinster saw the stone, he threw young Fillan in a lake. Saved by a passing priest, Fillan received the monastic habit at the Abbey of Fintan of Tagmon. In 717, he emigrated to Scotland with his mother and became abbot of a monastery in Fife. He lived in a cave in Pittenweem.