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Bannockburn was attributed to the presence of the arm of Saint Fillan, which was borne by its custodian, the Abbot of Inchaffray, on the field of battle. Legend has it that King Robert the Bruce requested the bone be brought to the Bannockburn battle site. The
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of the mentally ill. In
Strathfillan are the ruins of Saint Fillan's chapel, and hard by is the Holy Pool, in which the insane were, as late as the 19th century, bathed to obtain a cure by the saint's intercession. Scott refers to it in Marmion (Cant. I. xxix).
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St Fillan's parish church in
Aberdour, Fife was first recorded as being associated with St Fillan in 1390; parts of the church date to at least 1123, possibly even predating nearby Aberdour castle with which its history is so closely intertwined.
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Killallan, or
Killellen, an ancient parish in Renfrewshire, took its name from him; (the name deriving from Kil, or cell, of Fillan). It was originally Kilfillan (Church of Fillan). It is now part of the combined parish of
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left the bone behind and brought only the reliquary because they didn't want the relic to fall into
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