Machar was a 6th-century Irish Saint active in Scotland. A Bishop of Irish origin, Machar is said to have been a former nobleman, baptized by St Colman. He came to Iona with Columba and preached in Mull and later ministered to the Picts around Aberdeen. Much of what is claimed to be known about St. Machar derives from the Aberdeen Breviary, a work compiled in the late fifteenth to early...