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Wrote under this pseudonym a remarkable series of Celtic tales, novels, and poems, including Pharais, a Romance of the Isles, The Mountain Lovers, The Sin-Eater , The Washer of the Ford, and Green Fire , The Laughter of Peterkin , The Dominion of Dreams , The Divine Adventure , Drostan and Iseult . He was one of the earliest and most gifted promoters of the Celtic revival.
In 1852 some bones, believed to be his, were removed from Blair to the Church of Saint Drostan in the parish of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire; and eleven years later a window of stained glass was placed in the same church, bearing, on a brass plate in the window-sill, this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, who died in the arms of victory, and whose battle-cry was 'King James and the Church of Scotland!"
Drostan, St. Columcille's friend and disciple, established the faith in Aberdeenshire and became abbot of Deer; St. Kieran evangelized Kintyre; St. Mun labored in Argyleshire; St. Buite did the same in Pictland; St. Maelrubha preached in Ross-shire; St. Modan and St. Machar benefited the dwellers on the western and eastern coasts respectively; and St.
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