Biography
The details of Saint Regulus life are unclear and differ in the several extant accounts of his life. Saint Regulus was a monk or bishop of the city of Patras, in present day Greece then part of the Roman Empire. In AD 345 Regulus was told by an angel in a visionary dream that the Emperor Constantine had decided to remove Saint Andrew's relics from Patras to Constantinople, and in some retellings that he was in fact about to invade Patras, and that he was to move as many bones as far away as he could to the western ends of the earth for safekeeping and that he should found a church there, dedicated to St Andrew. He was accompanied on his voyage by a number of consecrated virgins, among these Saint Triduana.
According to the various Regulus was either shipwrecked, or told to intentionally stop by an angel, on the shore of Fife at the spot called Kilrymont, a Pictish settlement which is now St. Andrews, and was welcomed by a Pictish king, Óengus I, who was actually of the eighth century. Regulus is claimed to have brought three fingers of the saint's right hand, the upper bone of an arm, one kneecap, and one of his teeth.
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