Saint Boisil | |
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 Boisil greets Cuthbert at Melrose; 12th-century miniature form British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert | |
| Abbot | |
| Born | unknown Northumbria, England |
| Died | 7 July 664 Melrose, Scotland |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church;[1] Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion |
| Major shrine | Melrose Abbey, Scotland (destroyed) |
| Feast | 7 July (24 February for Orthodox)[2] |
| Attributes | Abbot |
Boisil (died 661) was a monk of Melrose Abbey, an offshoot of Lindisfarne, then in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, but now in Scotland, where he must have been one of the first generation of monks. He probably moved to the new foundation of Melrose when it was started, some time in the late 640s.
- ^ "Saint Boisil". LTN. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- ^ "Ὁ Ὅσιος Μποϊζὶλ ἐκ Σκωτίας" [The saint of Scotland Boizil]. GRAND SYNAXARISTIS (in Greek). Retrieved 25 February 2011.