Wikipedia's article on Baldred of Tyninghame says he was an eighth century abbot who founded a monastery at Tyninghame and died at the Bass Rock on 6 March 757, and it records the legend: after a night of prayer three bodies were found, in all respects alike, each in its winding sheet, prepared for burial. The article says the story probably explains why more than one church claimed his shrine. His remains were later moved to Durham Cathedral in the early 11th century, according to the same source.
The Bass Rock article says he built a small hermitage there, and that a chapel dedicated to him survives halfway up the rocky slopes. Baldred's cave at Seacliff Beach is a further landmark. The Bass is a nature reserve and landing is by boat only, so most visitors see it from the shore at North Berwick.
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