Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Kennocha | |
Birth Place: | Scotland |
Residence: | Fife |
Death Date: | 1007 |
Death Place: | Scotland |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy |
Feast Day: | March 13 |
Saint Kennocha (or Kennoch, Kennotha, Kevoca, Kyle, Enoch; died 1007) was a Scottish nun who is venerated as a saint in the area of Glasgow, Scotland.She is remembered on 13 and 25 March.She is included in the 1921 Book of Saints by the Monks of Ramsgate.
The hagiographer Agnes B. C. Dunbar wrote,
According to Alban Butler,
The name of the church and parish of St. Quivox in Ayrshire, Scotland, is thought to be a variant of Santa Kennocha Virgo in Coila, or Saint Kennocha.Other forms of the name include St. Kevock, St Kenochis, St. Cavocks and St. Evox. However, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints says that the church of Quivox is named after Saint Kevoca, often thought to be Scottish, who was in fact the Irish saint Mo-Choemoc.