Eye problems?

Perhaps you've got something in your eye. Maybe you need new glasses. Or if you're anything like the young and lovely Saint Tredwell, you might have just gouged your eyes out. You heard me. Gouged them out. I was reading one of the blogs I subscribe to and read about his recent trip to a place called Papa Westray, an island only 3 and 1/2 miles around, with a population of 71- all living at the monastery. It would be pretty cool to visit there. I mean, hey, they've got a chapel/shrine for this crazy nun there. And the exterior walls of one of their buildings, according to the infallible Wikipedia, date as far back as 3500 BC. WOW.

According to tradition, in the 8th century, the Pictish King Nechtan attempted to seduce a young woman from the island named Triduana, who in response gouged her own eyes out. She later became abbess of a nunnery at Restalrig, now part of Edinburgh, and was in due course, canonised as Saint Tredwell. A chapel was consecrated to her on Papa Westray and became a place of pilgrimage for people with eye complaints.