IliliilliJiilJIi
ijiliiijiiiiilij;
iii »i!i
I
y
^ — >J(
THE
litres of tl)e S>atnt0
REV. S. BARING-GOULD
SIXTEEN VOLUMES
VOLUME THE SIXTEENTH
^ppmtiii Uolumc
-*
This Volume contains Two INDICES
to the Sixteen Volumes of the
work, one an Index of the Saints
whose Lives are given, and the other
a Subject Index.
First Edition pitblished 1872
Second Edition , . . . ,, iSqj
New and Revised Edition, 16 vols. ,, -^9^4
*-
Appendix Vol. , Frontispiece.]
fy^/y
I
*
THE
ILit)t0 of t!;t g>atnt0
BY THE
REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.
With Introduction and Additional Lives of English
Martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh Saints,
and a full Index to the Entire Work
New and Revised Edition
ILLUSTRATED BY 473 ENGRAVINGS
VOLUME THE SIXTEENTH
^ppcntiix Folumc
EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT
31 GEORGE IV BRIDGE
1914
-^
BX
63
Printed by Ballantvne, Hanson &' Co.
at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
*t-
-*
CONTENTS
The Celtic Church and its Saints .
Brittany : its Princes and Saints .
Pedigrees of Saintly Families ....
A Celtic and English Kalendar of Saints
Proper to the Welsh, Cornish, Scottish,
Irish, Breton, and English People .
Catalogue of the Materials Available for
the Pedigrees of the British Saints
Errata
Index to Saints whose Lives are Given
Index to Subjects
PAGBS
1-86
87-120
121-158
1 59-326
327
329
333
3(J4
1^
-*
VI
Contcftis
LIST OF ADDITIONAL LIVES GIVEN IN THE
CELTIC AND ENGLISH KALENDAR
n.
PAGE
Aaron
245
Aclliaiarn . . . .
2S8
Afan
305
Aidan ....
177
Alburga . . .
324
Aldate ....
179
Alfred the Great
285
Alfric ....
305
Almcdlia . . .
258
Ainacllilu . . .
325
Armel ....
264
Arnulf ....
. 268
Austell ....
■ 243
Auxilius . .275
, 316
B
Baithen or Baitan . 232
Barrwg or Barriic . 317
Beiino 214
Birstan 294
Bodfan 229
Boethius . . . .321
Boisil 174
Bregwyn .... 269
Brinstan .... 294
Bristan 294
Brothen . . . .281
Brynach Wyddel . 209
Budoc 321
Buith 321
Buriana .... 226
Cadfan 288
Cadoc . . . 174, 3-5
Cadwaladr . . . 280
Caian 276
S
Callwen ....
Canog
Caranog orCarantog
Caron
Cathan
Catherine Audley .
Cawrdaf ....
Ceadwalla ....
Ceitho
Celynin, son of
Cynyr Farfdrwch
Celynin, son of
Helig
Cewydd
Cian . .
Ciedwyn
Clement
Clether .
Clydai .
Clydog .
Clydwyn
Collen .
Colman
Conan .
Conlaeth
Constantine
Conval .
Cowair .
Creirwy
Crewenna
Cristioliis
Cumine the Wh
Cungar .
Curig .
Cuthbert
279
222
193
Cwyfan or
Cwyllog
Cybi . .
Cynbryd
Cwyfen
te .
314
3'9
213
287
287
310
245
321
287
197
265
288
294
287
22 '\
184
176
195
198
277
251
192
179
294
1 86
301
236
285
230
168
279
197
'^
-*
Co7itents
Vll
s.
PAGE
Cynddilig .... 293
11
Cyndeyrn
2S4
)7
Cynfab .
30 s
11
Cvnfarch
272
11
Cynfarvvy
302
11
Cynfran
.30.3
11
Cyngar . .
301
11
Cynhafal
279
•!■)
Cynidr .
216
11
Cynllo .
2 S3
^^
Cynog .
279
iy
Cynwyl .
217
1^
Cyriacus
236
11
Cywair .
2SI
>i
Cywyllog
168
D
s.
Dagaeus .... 265
11
Dagan ....
228
11
David ....
187
11
Deghadh . . .
265
11
Deifer ....
193
11
Deiniol Car-
penter . . .
273
11
Deiniol the Youngei
' 313
Deiniolen . . .
313
11
Deiniolfab . . .
313
11
Derfel Gadarn .
207
11
Deruvianus . .
221
11
Digain ....
310
11
Dihaer .
193
u
Diheifyr
• 193
u
Dingad .
287
It
Docmael
• 234
11
Doewan
2S3
11
Dogfan .
252
11
Dogmael
• 234
i>
Dogwan
. 252
11
Domneva
• 309
11
Dona .
293
11
Drostan
• 322
11
Dubricius
• 304
11
Dubricius,
T ran si a
lion of
■ • I
. 228
Dubtach
. 280
FAGE
S. Dunawd Fawr . . 272
„ Dunchad .... 201
„ Dwynwen . . . -175
„ Dyfan 221
„ Dyfnan 216
„ Dyfnog. . . . . 183
„ Dyfrig, Translation
of 228
S.S Dyfrwyr, the . . . 292
E
Eadburg .... 235
Eadfrid 284
Eadsin 285
Ealsitha .... 253
Easterwin . . . .193
Edbert 266
Edburga .... 235
Edeyrn . . . c .168
Edmund, C. . , . 278
Edmund, K. M. . .310
Edwen 297
Efflam 297
Egbert 309
Egelwin . . . .318
Eigrad 167
Einion 180
Elaeth the King . . 303
Eldad 179
Elian Geimiad . .170
Elined 258
Ellidius .... 259
Elstan 208
Enghenedl . . . 278
Enoder or Cynidr . 216
. . 170,228
Erbin . .
Erfyl . .
Erme . .
Ermel . .
Ermenburga
Ermengytha
Ernan . .
Etheldwitha
Ethelgiva .
Ethelhard .
248
264
264
309
257
161
253
321
22 1
iH.-
-*
*-
-*
Vlll
Contents
S. Ethel noth . .
„ Elhelwin . .
„ Eurfyl . . .
„ Eurgain . .
„ Eval or Evall
S.
Failbhe I. . . .
Failbhe the Little
Fergna the White
Ffagan ....
Ffinan ....
Fflewyn . . .
Finan, or Finian
the Leper . .
SS. Fingar and Piala
S. Finian ....
„ Fothadh IL . .
„ Frithebert. . .
„ Frithestan . . .
S. Gallgo
„ Geraint or Geron-
tius
Gernioc or Germoe
Gistlian . . . .
Gluvias or Glywys .
Gofor
Gorwst
Grace and Probus .
S. Gredifael . . . .
Grwst
Guinock . . . .
Gundleus or Gwyn-
llyw Filwr . . .
Guron or Goran. .
Gurwal
Gwen of Cornwall .
Gwen of Wales . .
Gwenfaen . . . .
Gwenfyl . . . .
Gwenog . . . .
Gwerir or Guier. .
Gwethenoc . . .
SS
I'AGE
2S6
219
248
244
310
197
194
188
259
322
321
196
198
272
179
273
316
260
240
191
219
220
208
304
3'8
21 1
202
210
230
282
282
296
288
165
207
192
It
S. Gwodloew . .
„ Gwrnerth . .
Gwryd . . .
Gwynan . .
SS. Gwyn and comp
S. G w y n h o e d 1
Gwynodl
„ Gwynlleu
„ Gwynno
„ Gwynnog
„ Gwynnoro
„ Gvvynws
or
PAGE
211
210
293
322
287
288
287
284
2 87
H
S. Hychan .... 259
„ Hydroc .... 220
„ Hywyn .... 167
I
S. Idloes 271
,, Illog 259
„ lUut or llltyd . , 249
SS. hidract and com-
pany 220
S. Ismael 235
„ Isserninus. . 316,318
„ Ita or Ytha . . .171
J
SS. Jacut, Gwethenoc,
and Creirwy . . 192
S. Jambert .... 263
,, Joavan 188
„ Julius and Aaron . 245
„ Jurmin 186
„ Just 264
,, Justinian .... 320
„ Justus 303
,, Jutwara or Jutwell . 252
K
S. Katherine Audley . 314
„ Kay 294
„ Kea 294
-«
*-
-*
Contents
IX
PAGE
Kenan 294
KennothaorKevoca 195
Kentigierna . . . 169
Kevern 305
Kieran 192
Kigwve or Kywa . 180
S. Leonore
Levan or Lev
Lewina . .
Llechid.
Lleuddad .
Llibio . .
Llwchaiarn
Llywelyn and Gwr
nerth . . .
M
S. Mabenna . . .
„ Mabyn ....
„ Machan . . .
„ Machraith. . .
„ Machudd . . .
„ Macwaloc . . .
„ Maei or Mahael
„ Maelog. . . .
„ Maelrubh . . .
„ Maelrys . . .
„ Maethlu . . .
„ Maildulf or Maidulf
„ Malo .
,, Manaccus
,, Marcella
„ Marchell
,, Marnanor Marnock
„ Marnoc or Marnan
,, Materiana. . . .
„ Mathernus or Mad-
ron .
„ Maudez
,, Maughan
„ Mawes .
„ Mawganor
„ Mechell
VOL. XVI.
246
231
254
319
172
187
169
210
276
276
277
161
305
176
22 I
326
215
325
213
304
281
271
271
188
283
210
. . . 306
. . .277
• • -306
Meugant 277
• • -305
SS
Medana .... 308
Meigan 277
Meirion . . . .179
Melangell or Mona-
cella 225
Melanius .... 296
Melor 162
Merewenna, V. Rum-
sey 221
Merewenna, V. Mar-
hamchurch . . 263
Meriadoc .... 231
Merin or Meiryn . 167
Meugant .... 277
Mevan 238
Minver or Mene-
freda 314
Moloc or Mo-luoch 240
Monan or Moinen . 188
N
Nectan 238
Nidan 278
Non or Nonnita . 189
Nothelm .... 282
NwythonorNoethan 283
S. Pabo Post Prydain 302
Padarn 289
Pandvvyna .... 268
Patrician .... 316
Paul, BishopofLdon 195
Paulinus . . .
Peblig or Publicius
Peithian .
Peulin ....
Plegmund .
Probus and Grace
S.
311
248
176
1 1
258
208
R
Rhediw 303
Rhian 194
Rluiddlad . . . .271
Rhwydrys .... 287
b
-*
Co7itents
-^
PAGE
S. Richard Rolle . . 277
„ Rioch 182
„ Robert 202
„ Ronan 180
„ Rumon, Roman, or
Ruan .... 165
„ Rumwold .... 269
„ Rychwyn .... 233
S
S. Sadvvm Farchog . 317
„ Samson . . . .254
„ Sa\vyl Benuchel . . 172
„ Scothin 161
„ Secundinus . . .316
„ Seiriol 162
„ Senan 194
„ Sennan or Senanus 233
„ Sidwell or Sativola. 258
„ Sigfrid 267
„ Solomon or Selyf . 241
„ Stinan 320
„ Sulien or Silin . . 270
T
S. Talarican .... 286
„ Tanwg 280
,, Tathan or Tathajus 324
„ Tecwyn or Tegwyn 274
„ Tegla or Theckla . 229
„ Teilo 181
„ Tenenan .... 253
„ Ternan orTorannan 233
„ Teyrnog or Tyrnog 207
„ Thomas k Becket . 326
» TriUo 234
„ Tuda 183
„ Tudglyd .... 228
„ Tudno 230
PACE
Tudur 281
Tudy 274
Tugdual . . . .318
Turgot 206
Twrog 243
Tybie 176
Tydecho .... 322
Tydfyl 268
Tyfaelog . . . .187
Tyfei 202
Tyfrj'dog . . . .160
Tyssul 177
U
S. Ulched 168
„ Ust 264
„ Uvellus 310
V
S. Veep, Wymp, or
Wennapa . . . 246
„ Veho or Vougo . .234
„ Voloc or Macwoloc 176
W
Walstan
Wennapa .
Wilfrid II. .
Wilgis . .
William . .
Winoc or Guinock
Winwaloe . . 190,
Withburga
Wulfhilda . .
Wymp . . .
246
217
177
22 ^
21 1
217
251
272
246
S. Ytha 171
■y<
* *
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MAPS
[Battlefields in the Maps are tnarked by Crossed Swords, and Abbeys by a +'\
Map of Britain in 580 a.d Frontispiece
Map of Britain in 750 a.d to face p. i
Map of Cornwall in the Sixth Century,
showing Brecknock - Gwentian and
Irish Colonies „ 16
Map of Ancient Wales
32
Plan of Early Celtic Monastic Settle-
ment ON Skellig-Michael, Co. Kerry „ 64
Map of Brittany, after the Migrations
FROM Britain .. 86
Saint Gwen-Teirbron and her Three
Sons, Monument in Brittany . . „ 192
GwELY Melangell — RocK Bed of S. Mel-
angell ., 224
Tomb of S. Pabo .\t Llanbabo ... „ 302
*-
Appendix Vol., p. i. ]
-*
Lives of the Saints
THE CELTIC CHURCH AND ITS SAINTS.
HE earliest inhabitants of the British Isles were
those who in the sub-glacial period used rude
chipped and flaked tools of flint and of bone ;
a people long-headed, tall, of a gentle and
patient disposition, if one may judge by their remains.
Whether they lingered on till the arrival of the dusky short
race we call Ivernian, Iberian, or Silurian, we have no
means of saying with any approach to certainty. But
there still remain along our western coasts, at the Land's
End, in Pembrokeshire, in old Strathclyde, in the Western
Isles, men and women with long faces, and dark hair and
eyes, of a handsome type, fondly supposed to be relics of
Spaniards cast ashore from the Armada, who may with
greater justice be regarded as survivals of the earliest type
that occupied the British Isles.
But the race that prevailed was short of build, probably
sallow, and with beady eyes. It is that which at a
remote period covered the whole of Gaul, the north of
Germany, the south of Sweden, and which arrived in
Europe by the valley of the Kuban, north of the Caucasus,
from the East. This people, which, wherever possible,
erected megalithic monuments, symbols of its endurance
VOL. XVI. A
*
-*
*-
-*
Lives of the Saints.
through all time, is the first of which we can speak with
any degree of confidence. It was a race of inextinguish-
able vitality. It is still largely represented in Wales, and in
Ireland, and in Lancashire. It has become the dominant
type in Aquitania, if not throughout France. Pure and
unalloyed, or nearly so, it remains in the Berber ; dress
a Kabyl in a French blouse, and he will not be dis-
tinguishable from a native of Guienne. The Portuguese
also represents the same race. The language spoken by
this people was probably agglutinative ; like the Basque, it
had not attained to that development in which inflection is
found.
At some remote period, certainly not later than a
thousand years before Christ, a Celtic invasion of Britain
took place. The great nursery of this mighty people
seems to have been the Alps. The migration which
came into and occupied Britain was afterwards termed
Goidelic. The Goidels possessed themselves of the whole
of Britain and a portion of Ireland. They subdued, but
by no means exterminated, the dusky race they found in
possession. They imposed on them their Aryan tongue,
but themselves adopted the religion and usages of the
subjugated race.
How far the Goidels occupied Wales and South Britain
is matter of dispute. Such an authority as Dr. Rhys
holds that they completely subdued the Ivernians through-
out Wales and Devon and Cornwall. This opinion is
based, I believe, mainly on the Goidelic form of the in-
scribed stones there found. The place-names, however,
bear hardly a trace of Goidelic idiom. The Goidel said ken
for head, whereas the Brython said pen. With the former
five was (O.I.) coic, and the latter pump ; with the former
each, a horse, the latter ep. Dr. Guest has given reasons
for holding that the Volcse of Southern Gaul, the Belgae
-ijr
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 3
of the Netherlands and Gaul, south and west of the Rhine,
and the Fir-Bolgs of Ireland, were one with the Goidels.
In Scotland, north of the Antonine Wall, the Ivernians
lived on unsubdued under the name of Pict, but with a
large infusion of Goidelic blood. We find plenty of traces
of Goidelic kens there, as we do in Ireland.
In or about the fourth century B.C. the whole of Europe,
and indeed Asia Minor as well, were convulsed by another
migration of Celts, whom the Alps could no longer contain.
This was the Gallic wave, which in our island has taken
the name of Brythonic. This wave overflowed all that
portion of Gaul which lies between the Rhine and the
Seine, and crossing into our island conquered the Goidel,
who now acquired this name, expressive of contempt, as
signifying the savage.^ The new-comers were armed with
weapons of iron, whereas those whom they subjugated were
furnished with arms of bronze, bone, and stone.
Driving the Goidels before them, the Britons advanced
till they reached the western sea, thrusting a wedge into
Wales, and constituting the basis of what was afterwards
known as the kingdom of Powys.
Some must have crossed into Ireland, where they
established themselves in what are now the counties ot
Wicklow, Wexford, and Carlow. Both Goidel and Brython,
or Gael, spoke a language closely akin, but partly owing to
separation through centuries, and partly through the altera-
tion of Goidelic through contact with the Ivernian, there
was a notable difference between the tongues when they
met. In Wales, especially in the south, the Silurian, non-
Aryan, tongue prevailed till the Roman conquest, and in
Pictland till some centuries later.
The Britons occupied the entire east of Britain to the
wall uniting the Firth of Forth with the Firth of Clyde.
1 Givyddel from Gwydd, trees ; gwyddeli, bushes ; gwyddelig^ sylvan, savage.
* .
*-
Lives of the Saints.
This wall did not of course then exist, but later on it
marked the limit of their conquest. They held the sea-
board from the Sohvay Firth to the mouth of the Dee, and
their tribe of the Ordovices, as already stated, had pierced
the heart of Wales, and held the major portion of the
coast of Cardigan Bay. At first they did not extend in
the south-west, into Somerset and Dorset, but were able
gradually and surely to roll back the natives or to enslave
them.
The great cradle of the Celtic stock had been the high-
lands of the Alps, where, in a densely wooded region, there
had been no need to use stone for building enclosures
and houses. The custom grew up to live on platforms
above the lakes, constructed of wood and on piles, and
upon these platforms to plant clusters of hovels made of
wood and wattle.
When the Goidelic branch arrived in Britain and in
Ireland, and was brought into contact with the earlier
race, that was emphatically one of builders, it viewed with
amazement their achievements in the erection of megalithic
monuments, and although subjugating them, acquired their
civilisation and habits of life and religion. To a late
period, even to Christian times, these Goidels constructed
dwellings and forts after the pattern acquired from the
Silurians, and to this day bee-hive huts in Wales are called
" the hovels of the Goidels."
But the Britons were in a far higher condition of civilisa-
tion when they appeared on the scene in our island, as
were the Gauls when they arrived in what we now call
France. They knew how to make iron weapons, and
they had acquired such dexterity in the construction of
timber dwellings, and in palisading, that they felt no dis-
position to adopt the methods of the Goidels. The
fortresses they erected were not mainlv of stone, but were
*-
-.J.
^- 1^
T/ie Celtic Church and its Saints. 5
earthworks crested with a stockade ; and their houses,
halls, and eventually their churches, were all constructed
of wood.
It was the same with their religion ; they exhibited no
inclination to accept that which belonged originally to the
Ivernians, and which had been adopted by the Goidels.
Gauls and Brythons had advanced from mere spirit worship,
the cult of the dead, to the worship of elemental deities.
They burned their dead, but did not make for them rude
stone cists, set up circles, nor construct dolmens.
In one particular, and in one only, were the Ivernians
their superiors — this gifted race had always been one of
builders. They not only erected gigantic monuments
for their dead, but were able to construct stone circular
habitations for themselves, and to throw up around them
great stone fortifications. From them their Goidelic con-
querors had acquired the art. But the Brythons would
none of it. They showed to the last a really astounding
incapacity to build. Accustomed on their platforms above
the lakes in Switzerland to live in wattled hovels, they
brought with them extraordinary skill in plaiting and
weaving, and contented themselves with dwellings made
of wattles ; and for protection they threw up earthworks,
and crested them with interwoven work of palisades and
willow wands. The exquisite interlaced work that orna-
ments their monuments and decorates Irish manuscripts
is due to this hereditary love of lattice.
The Roman conquest of Britain was mainly one of the
Brython, at least at first ; but after Agricola's defeat of the
Silurians, Roman civilisation penetrated into Wales, where
the conquerors worked the gold mines whence the Silurian
had for long derived the most precious metal.
It may be suspected that the Romanised Britons lost
most of their vigour, as they did of their independence,
* ^
6 Lives of the Saints.
when they received a veneer of Roman culture. The
imperial system, if it had not destroyed, had weakened that
tribal cohesion under hereditary chiefs which was the
form of national organisation to which they had developed
when the iron hand of Rome smote them and arrested the
natural and logical growth of their free institutions in
accordance with the genius of the race. The people were
forced by three centuries of Roman domination to obey
the governor sent them from abroad, and not their native
chief. And when the Roman legions were withdrawn, that
organisation which would have mustered them and com-
pacted them to form a front against the enemy was but
a shadow of what had once been a reality. Buffeted on the
east by the Saxons, on the north by the Picts, exposed
on the west to the Irish Goidels, they were no longer in
a position to help themselves.
Julius Caesar had invaded Britain in 55 B.C., and again
in the ensuing summer ; but really nothing was done to
subjugate the island till Aulus Plautius was despatched to
it in A.D. 43, at the head of four legions and Gallic auxili-
aries. Under Ostorius Scapula, a.d. 50, further advance
was made, but the Silures and the Ordovices held out, and
it was not till after nine years of warfare that the gallant
Caradoc, prince of the Silures, but of Celtic origin and
family, was finally defeated and taken. Suetonius Paulinus,
in A.D. 58, was appointed, and after three years of success-
ful warfare reduced Mona, the stronghold of the Druids.
But the man who finally established the dominion of the
Romans in the island was Agricola, who governed it from
78 to 85.
Britain enjoyed comparative tranquillity under the
Roman rule till the decline of the Empire.
The incursions of the Picts from Caledonia was pro-
bablv due to their eastern coast being itself infested with
15& ^
^-
-©
Tke Celtic Church and its Saints. 7
piratical attacks of Saxons, and settlements in their land.
The Picts broke over the wall, and swept the helpless
country with fire and sword. The Irish Gwyddel Ffichti at
the same time gave great trouble. They were not pirates
only, carrying off slaves, but colonists as well, and they
took possession of North Wales; others again penetrated
to, and established themselves in, Brecknock.
At the same time that the Britons became Romanised
they were also Christianised. When, about a.d. 208, Ter-
tullian wrote " against the Jews," he declared that the
Gospel message had been conveyed to the boundaries of
Spain, to the many tribes of the Gauls, and into the dis-
tricts of the Britons inaccessible to the Romans. By this
he doubtless meant that it had penetrated beyond the wall
among the Picts of Alba, and beyond the Romanised
Britons among the " savages " of Western Britain. His
testimony is confirmed by Origen in 239; and later, about
246, Origen speaks of the British Church as small and
weak, " for very many in Britain," he tells us, " had not
yet heard the word of the Gospel."
Oratorical although these passages may be, we are not at
liberty to reject them ; for that they are too precise. And,
indeed, that there should be truth in the statement is by
no means improbable. The Roman legions were recruited
from every part of the world, and among the soldiers were
many who believed in Christ, and who would act as mis-
sionaries wherever sent. Soldiers transplanted from Asia
Minor, which in the third century was filled with flourishing
churches, would be settled in Britain for many years. A
cohort drawn from Spain, where the faith of Christ had
obtained root and had spread, was, we know, quartered for
half a century on the frontier, in defence of the wall against
the inroads of the Caledonians, and the soldiers married
there and had families.
*-
8
Lives of the Saints.
-*
Indeed, it would be incredible, knowing as we do how
Roman cohorts were drafted from all parts, and knowing also
what a nursery of martyrs the army was, that Christianity
should not have been introduced by its means into Britain
at an early period. The only martyrs of whom reminis-
cence remains were Alban of Verulam, Julius and Aaron
of Caerleon, and Amphibalus of Redbourn, near S. Albans,
Nennius, in or about 858, names Alban, but makes a
geographical mistake, for he describes the Thames as flow-
ing near Verulam. This, however, does not invalidate his
testimony, for he had not been in that portion of England
which was the scene of the martyrdom, and maps were not
accessible in those days. Alban suffered in 303, at a place
which in time was so surrounded with Saxons that no Briton
could go near it. The tradition lingered on, but venera-
tion for the site ceased. Bede, who died in 735, knew
of the martyrdom ; he heard of it from the British of
Strathclyde, Nennius probably from Wales.
It has been pointed out that the names of Aaron and
Julius, as also of Amphibalus, are foreign, and have no
equivalents in Welsh.
The sites of the martyrdom of the two former were
marked from an early age at Caerleon, and it is significant
that on the height above that ancient metropolis a martyriiim
to S. Alban was erected, the traces of which still remain,
erected doubtless after the Britons had been driven from
Verulam, when it would seem they took the bones of the
martyr with them. This, at a later period, led to the
claim of Caerleon to have been the scene of his passion,
and not Verulam. It is probable that Aaron and Julius
were soldiers belonging to the second legion, which was
quartered at Caerleon, or Isca Silurum. It is very diffi-
cult to suppose that a cult should have grown up out of
nothing in a place where tradition remained strong, and
^-
-^
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 9
from which the hold of the Briton was never wholly
relaxed.
Constantius Chlorus, father of Constantine, disapproved
of persecution, and from his time to about 368 there is no
record of anything taking place in Britain. At that date
Magnus Clemens Maximus, a Spanish soldier, served in a
campaign against the Picts. According to Welsh accounts
he was given a command in Wales, where he ruled with
great humanity, and was much liked. He married Elen,
daughter of Eudaf (Octavius), prince of Ewyas, or part of
Monmouth and Hereford, and by her he had three sons,
saints, so that, doubtless, he was a Christian. To Elen is
attributed the remarkable road, the Sam Helen, that runs
through Wales. A fourth son of Maximus and Elen, Con-
stantine, is not supposed to have possessed distinguished
sanctity.
The predilection of the Emperor Gratian for foreign bar-
barians excited discontent among the legions in Britain, and
perhaps served them as an excuse for revolt, whereupon
Maximus was proclaimed emperor in 383. He immedi-
ately collected all the troops stationed in Britain and crossed
into Gaul. Gratian was defeated near Paris, and was slain
when escaping into Italy. Gaul, Spain, and Britain now
acknowledged Maximus, who exhibited commendable mode-
ration in the use of his power, and was able to boast that
his elevation had caused no loss of Roman lives, save on
the battlefield. He fixed his court at Treves, and there,
professing his orthodoxy, acquired the disgraceful notoriety
of being the first Christian sovereign to shed the blood of
his subjects for holding heretical opinions. This was in
385, and the case is related in the life of S. Martin
(November, p. 254). Maximus induced his brother-in-law,
Cynan Meiriadog, to lead an army of picked British soldiers
to his assistance, to the number, it is said, of 60,000 men,
lo Lives of the Saints.
and these never returned, but settled in Armorica. This
emigration drained Wales of her best fighting men, and
paved the way to disaster.
Maximus, having been defeated by Theodosius the
Younger, lost his life, along with his son Victor, a.d. 388.
On the tidings of his death reaching Britain his son Owain
was elevated to be king, or pendragon, over the native
princes. At this time the Empire was breaking up, com-
munication with Britain was intercepted, and in 402 the
Roman army of occupation in the island was reduced from
three to two legions, one of which still remained at Isca
Silurum, or Caerleon.
Wales had been depleted of her fighting men, at all
events of British origin, who had gone with Cynan Meiria-
dog to Brittany in support of Maximus, a.d. 385, and as
Gildas informs us, " they never returned." But this was
not all. " A few years later," says William of Malmesbury,
" a certain Constantine (the Tyrant), likewise seduced by
the title of Emperor, drew away with him to the Continent
the few soldiers who remained in the isle of Britain. But
these two usurpers, toys of fortune, perished by a violent
death, one in the reign of Theodosius, the others by order
of Honorius. Of the troops that had followed them, one
portion was cut to pieces, and the other took to flight, and
found refuge among the Continental Britons."
This Constantine the Tyrant was a common soldier in
the Roman army stationed in Britain. In 407 these troops
rebelled, and chose Constantine to be emperor, for no
other reason but for the fact that he bore the venerated
and royal name of the great emperor. He carried his
legions over into Gaul, and was recognised in nearly every
province before the year had elapsed. He was ably assisted
by Geraint, or Gerontius, a Briton, probably from Dyfnaint,
of the royal family there. There can be little doubt that
T/ie Celtic Church and its Saints. 1 1
he took with him levies from Britain. Owing to disappoint-
ment and disagreement Gerontius, in his turn, revolted
against Constantine, but was deserted by his men, and fled
to Spain, where he killed himself. To some extent it was
due to this drain of fighting men from Britain that the
country was left a prey to the Gwyddel Ffichti, or Irish
Picts, as well as to the Picts of Alba and to the Scots,
who poured over the undefended wo.U, Niall of the Nine
Hostages, at the head of a host of Irish, occupied Gwynedd,
or North Wales, also the district of Menevia, and what was
later Cardigan and Pembrokeshire were occupied. Another
Irish rover, Anlach MacCormac, settled with a body of his
Goidels in Brecon, and took to wife a native princess, by
whom he became the father of Brychan, the famous king
of Brecknock, the father of a family of saints that founded
churches alike in Wales and Cornwall. Another of these
adventurers, Coroticus, carried off S. Patrick to sell him
as a slave in Ireland. Some think he was captured at
Boulogne, others that he was taken from Dumbarton, and
others again claim him as a native of Wales.
In the same way, colonies of Goidelic Picts from Ireland
descended on the coasts of Cornwall and Devon, and
established themselves there, not only appropriating the
temporal sovereignties, but appropriating as well the reli-
gious jurisdiction, forming, in fact, military and ecclesiastical
settlements in the peninsula. It is to this Irish Goidelic
invasion that are due, if I mistake not, the inscribed stones
in Wales and Cornwall that have legends in non-Brythonic
forms.
This invasion of the Irish Picts introduced a number of
saints into the kalendars of Wales and Cornwall. But it
did more than this, it familiarised Welshmen and Cor-
nish men and Devonians with the great saints of Ireland.
But more than this even, it caused the British Church
^ -^
*-
12
Lives of the Saints.
-*
to be the mother of the Irish Church, which in time
gave birth to that of Scotland, and then to that of Nor-
thumbria.
The wretched and incapable Honorius, who died in 427,
withdrew the legions from Britain, and abandoned the
natives, who had been enervated by the sway of Rome, to
become the prey to foreign foes.
One might have supposed that in the three centuries
during which the Britons had been under Roman rule they
would have observed the methods of construction of the
Romans, have noted their discipline, and that at least they
would have at once combined to rebuild the walls of the
fortified cities, and to discipline their armies on the model
of the Roman legions. But they did nothing of the sort.
They had acquired little of Roman art, nothing of Roman
discipline. In defending themselves against Pict and Scot
they reverted to native and primitive methods. There is
not a shadow of evidence that they repaired the broken
walls, or erected others on the models they had before them.
Their warfare was conducted in as ignorant and ineffectual
a manner as if they had learned nothing from the legions who
had been in their midst. The explanation is this. A large
number of the ablest-bodied men of Britain were annually
enrolled and sent abroad to act as legionaries in countries
far removed from Britain, to which they never returned,
consequently the Britons in Britain received no military
education. Moreover, their native political institutions
were struck with paralysis. The tribal chiefs were for two
or three centuries left as mere headpieces, through whom
the poll-tax could be levied, but who had lost all but the
mere semblance of power.
When the Saxons and Angles arrived on our coasts they
were in the same stage of political evolution in which the
Britons had been when subjugated by the Romans. They
-•i-
*-
->J<
The Celtic Church and its Saints.
13
at once, with rapidity, advanced from this inferior stage
of organisation to one higher, out of the tribal condition
into national cohesion ; and this was at the time when the
unfortunate Britons were recovering from political paralysis,
and revivifying institutions that had been formal and lifeless
for at least two centuries, and which, when re-animated,
placed them on that inferior stage of organisation from
which the Teutonic invader was emerging, his develop-
ment having suffered no arrest. Already, before the in-
vaders landed, the tribal system among them was yielding
everywhere, and the Teutons were coalescing into articulate
nationalities, as Allemanni and Franks, under kings. When
the hordes reached British shores, in the face of the enemy
defending their homesteads, they also drew together ; and
Bede shows them to us in his day as grouped into the
three great kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex.
The unhappy Britons, numbed by the oppression of Rome,
could not cope with them, for theirs was the disorganisa-
tion of the tribal stage pitted against the organisation ot
national life.
The first arrival of the Jutes in Britain was in a.d. 449,
when they were invited by Vortigern, the British over-king,
to assist him against the Picts and Scots. They encamped
in Thanet, aided the Britons in more than one campaign,
but owing to a dispute over pay and rations broke with
those who had invited them, and in 455 crossed the
Wantsum, that separated the islet from the mainland of
Kent, and surprised the Britons and defeated them. They
proceeded to sack Durovernum, now called Canterbury,
and crossing from the Stour valley into that of the
Medway, again defeated the Britons at Aylesford and at
Crayford, and drove them within the walls of London.
The indignation and resentment of the Britons found
vent against the wretched Vortigern, who had opened the
*-
-*
*-
H
Lives of the Saints.
-*
door to a worse enemy than Pict or Scot. A revolr
ensued, in which the command of the British defenders
was wrested from him and put in the hands of AureUus
Ambrosius, a Romanised Briton, and Vortigern died
apparently of a broken heart, overwhelmed with contempt,
in 464. Aurelius, called by the Welsh Emrys Wledig,
met, however, with very little better success against the
invaders.
In 477 Saxon war-bands under Ella landed in Selsey,
and rapidly won the entire coast of what has since been
called Sussex. In 491 ensued the siege of Anderida, a
centre of the great iron industry. The Britons maintained
a stubborn defence, and when finally the town fell the
Saxons " slew all that were therein, nor was there hence-
forth one Briton left."
Other Saxons landed on the low muddy shores of the
Colne and Maldon estuary and thence proceeded to attack
and destroy Camalodunum, now called Colchester, a double
city, one portion British, the other Roman ; but, doubtless,
since the Roman legions had withdrawn, the native Iceni
had entered and occupied the stately and well-built Roman
city, and had deserted their embankments and wooden
houses at Lexden. The reduction of Essex followed. In
480 landed the Angles, and they speedily overran what is
now called Norfolk and Suffolk. Within thirty years the
whole of what had been called the Saxon shore was in the
hands of the invaders. The Angles now proved the most
active, energetic, and terrible enemies of the Britons ; they
seized on and occupied Lincolnshire, and established them-
selves on the Wolds of Yorkshire and in the valley of the
Swale. They thrust farther north, and at the beginning
of the sixth century established themselves on the Tweed.
In 547 Ida set up the kingdom of Bernicia, and placed
his stronghold at Bamborough. In 550 the Mid- Angles
*-
-*
* —
The Celtic Church and its Saints 1 5
attacked and destroyed Ratte, now called Leicester, and
began to spread and establish themselves in the Mid-
lands.
In the meantime Saxons had arrived in Southampton
Water and conquered the open country, of which Venta,
the present Winchester, was the capital. But the enemy
were not invariably successful ; a victory at Mount Badon,
the present Badbury, in 520 revived the spirits of the Britons.
In 530 the Isle of Wight was occupied by the Jutes. The
West Saxons, staggered for a while by their defeat at
Mount Badon, resumed the offensive, and in 556, by the
victory of Barbury, made themselves masters of Wiltshire.
Turning east they now advanced upon Verulamium and
London, and reduced both about the middle of the sixth
century.
It was not till 577 that the West Saxons set their faces
to the setting sun and menaced the flourishing and opulent
cities of Gloucester, Bath, and Cirencester. The overthrow
of Deorham in the same year was the most tragic in the
early history of our land, for not only did it entail the loss
of these three important towns and centres of civilisation,
but it broke the continuity of the line of defence of the
Britons, and isolated those of Wales from their brethren in
Devon and Cornwall.
This miserable defeat was the most fatal the Britons had
endured, and thenceforth their power of resistance was
enormously weakened. It marked, moreover, a stage in
the conquest.
Hitherto the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had been little
better than a horde of Iroquois, murdering, plundering,
destroying. Without any appreciation of art, culture, any
of the refinements of life, like wild beasts, they had ravaged
the land, finding pleasure only in destruction. From 577
thev began to consider whether it were not as well to
* ^
attempt construction. They settled and established home-
steads.
At this point we may pause to inquire whether the entire
population disappeared before their swords, as did every
city and sign of a nobler and better life.
Both Freeman and Green believe that it was so. The
latter says of the conquest, that it was an effacement of the
Briton from the soil. Such as were not slain were driven
to flight. The conquest " of France by the Franks, or
that of Italy by the Lombards, proved little more than a
forcible settlement of the one or the other among tributary
subjects, who were destined in a long course of ages to
absorb their conquerors. French is the tongue, not of the
Frank, but of the Gaul whom he overcame; and the fair
hair of the Lombard is all but unknown in Lombardy.
But almost to the close of the sixth century the English
conquest of Britain was a sheer dispossession of the con-
quered people ; and so far as the English sword in these
earlier days reached, Britain became England, a land, that
is, not of Britons, but of Englishmen." ^
This is, I venture to think, an over-statement. It is true
that everywhere with ruthless savagery the Teutonic invaders
destroyed all with which they came in contact that pro-
claimed a higher civilisation ; in Yorkshire, as in Sussex
and in Hampshire, everywhere the old towns were burned
and left as heaps of ruin, and the invader refused to live
in houses of stone, and within walls. That he was every-
where ferocious in his cruelty is also true ; but that he was
so blind to his interests as to slaughter or drive off men
who, as serfs, might till the soil for him, and so insensible
to beauty as not to become enthralled by the charms of
the British damsels, that cannot be believed. What did
take place was that all the chiefs and nobles, all those
1 Green, "The Making of England," ed. of 1897, i. 154.
»i<-
-*
Appendix Vol., p. i6.]
1
* — »i«
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 17
owning lands and exercising authority, withdrew before
the invader, but not without desperate resistance ; and that
the serfs and the women of a captured camp became a
prey — the former continued as thralls under the new
masters, and the latter remained as concubines and wives.
If we may judge by the analogy of the Norman and Angevin
conquest of Wales, then the invaders would have found allies
among dissatisfied and envious British princes, who would
side with the common foe to wreak vengeance on another
Celtic chief for some petty slight, or to gain some poor
advantage, and this would lead to closer ties and fusion of
blood. And that at the very time when the Saxon invasion
took place the Britons were torn by internecine feud, is
matter of history.
It is not easy to explain the persistence of Celtic names
of rivers, mountains, and valleys in any other way than by
assuming that there remained on the soil a certain pro-
portion of the older inhabitants. The physical features
retain their Welsh designations ; it is the settlements of
the new-comers that bear German names. ^
But in a sense, what Mr. Green and Mr. Freeman assert
as to the complete expulsion of the Britons may be true.
The Brythons, who had overrun Britain, were the con-
querors, and remained as lords and princes; whereas the
Goidel, with a deep, dark tincture of Silurian blood, was
still on the land, but as a serf. As a serf he remained
under changed masters, and it is this that accounts for the
patches of dusky skin, the dark hair and eyes, that are
found in various parts of England.
Although the invader conquered everywhere, he found the
conquest difficult. Every foot was contested, and that stub-
bornly. " It is this indeed which, above all, distinguished
1 The very names of the Northumbrian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira are
British : Brynaich. highland ; and Deyfr, lowland.
VOL. XVI. B
^ »fl
*i*-
i8
Lives of the Saints.
-*
the conquest of Britain from that of the other provinces of
Rome. In all the world-wide struggles between Rome and
the Germanic races no land was so stubbornly fought for
and so hardly won. In Gaul the Frank and the Visigoth
met little native resistance save from the peasants of Brit-
tany and Auvergne. No popular revolt broke out against
the rule of Odoacer or Theodoric in Italy. But in Britain
the invader was met by a courage and tenacity almost equal
to his own. So far as we can follow the meagre record ot
the conquerors, or track their advance by the dykes and
ruins it left behind it, every inch of ground seems to have
been fought for. Field by field, town by town, forest by
forest, the land was won ; and as each bit of ground was
torn away from its defenders, the beaten men sullenly drew
back from it to fight as stubbornly for the next." ^
Before the advance of the barbarian Christianity dis-
appeared. Churches were burned, priests butchered. And
yet sacred sites were still cherished. The church of Faulk-
bourn, in Essex, would not be dedicated to S. Germanus of
Auxerre unless it had been so before the Saxon invasion,
and the recollection had hung about the charred ruins till
Essex became Christian again.
In 580 the invaders had formed the Bernician kingdom,
that occupied from the Firth of Forth to the Teviot, the
range in which rises the Tweed, and the present counties
of Northumberland and Durham. To the west was the
British realm of Strathclyde. South of the Tees to the
Humber was the Angle kingdom of Deira, reaching only
so far west as to where the land begins to rise. There, in
what is now the most intelligent, industrious, and densely
peopled portion of Yorkshire, the West Riding, was the
British kingdom of Elmet, and west of the Pennine Chain
1 Green, op. cit. i. p. 142. Compare Nicholas: "The Pedigree of the English
People," 5th ed. 1878.
> A-
-^
was the British Cumbria, that comprised not Cumberland
and Westmorland only, but also Rheged, or Lancashire.
The West Saxons had indeed reached the Severn, but from
the Parret to the Frome the entire western peninsula was in
the hands of the West Welsh.
Happily these cut-throats, having mastered a half of
Britain, now fell on each other. Each of the great king-
doms of Kent, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex in turn
sought to become paramount, and each for a while suc-
ceeded. The invaders were actuated by a blind instinct.
They strove after unity, and that unity could only be
effected by the subjugation of the rival kingdoms. In
their strife with one another the assistance of the Briton
was called in. Thenceforth there was no extermination of
the native. At the worst he was dispossessed of his lands,
and turned from a chief into a tenant. It is probable
enough that in our easternmost counties, as Sussex or
Essex, in Norfolk and Suffolk, there may be but the
smallest element of British blood present, perhaps hardly
any; but this is certainly not the case with the Mid-
lands ; it is not in any degree that of the west of England,
where the British race remains, from Cumberland to Devon-
shire, with only an infiltration of Saxon and Angle blood.
In 583 the West Saxon CeawHn advanced up the Severn
valley and utterly destroyed Uriconium (Wroxeter) under
the Wrekin. He happily met at Faddiley with such a
severe check, that he was forced to retrace his steps.
Faddiley is near Nantwich. Although Ceawlin had ravaged,
0
burnt, and murdered in his course up the Severn valley,
he did not settle, and any Saxons left behind would
assuredly have met with scant mercy at the hands of the
outraged inhabitants of a once smiling basin, turned by
the barbarians into a scene of devastation.
One of the most beautiful of ancient Welsh poems is the
I
*-
20
Lives of the Saints.
-*
lament of Llywarch Hen over the death of Cyndylan, son
of Cyndruyn, the prince who fell at Uriconium, the
White City.
" Cyndylan's Hall is not pleasant to-night
On the top of Carreg Hytwyth (Shrewsbury Castle),
Without lord, without company, without feast !
Cyndylan's Hall is gloomy to-night
Without fire, without songs, —
Tears are the trouble of my cheeks I
Cyndylan's Hall pierces me through to see it,
Without roof, without fire —
Dead is my chief, — myself alive ! "
We cannot sufficiently realise that the Anglo-Saxon in-
vasion was everywhere the crushing out of a civilisation
vastly ahead of their own, to replace it by utter barbarism.
After the retreat of Ceawlin in 584 he remained inert till
591, when his nephew, Ceol, assisted by the Britons, met
and defeated him in a great battle at Wanborough, near
Swindon, and Ceawlin was obliged to fly, and two years
later died in exile.
After such a defeat Wessex remained in a state of weak-
ness and prostration, from which it did not recover till, in
643, Cenwalch became king. He resumed the conflict
against the West Welsh, and in 658 drove them across the
Parret.
In 688 the redoubted Ina was king, and in 710 he
attacked the kingdom of Dyfnaint, and planted Taunton
as a border fortress against the Britons of the West.
After the battle of Deorham in 577, and the fall of
Bath, Gloucester, and Cirencester, the enemy had occupied
the Somerset low lands as far as the Mendip Hills and the
marshes of the Axe below Weston-super-Mare ; but a long
spit of land, some fifty miles in length, had remained in
the hands of the Britons. It extended to Cricklade, and
*-
-*
lit ^
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 21
was protected on the west by a branch of the Wansdyke,
that stretched from Malmesbury to the Mendips. Their
tongue of country was not very wide; it reached to the
Sehvood Forest, to Devizes, and Calne. The population
here was entirely British, but this was now brought into
subjection. The difference in the manner of conquest at
this period is seen in the way in which Ina treated Glaston-
bury. This had been founded in 601 by a British king;
and when Ina occupied it he re-endowed the shrine, and
allowed it to continue as a sacred centre to English and
Britons alike.
We must now consider shortly the new factor of Chris-
tianity that had appeared to mitigate the savagery of the
Anglo-Saxon, and to give to his conquests a character less
one of extermination than that it had previously worn.
The whole of Northumbria, and indeed Mercia as well,
received the Gospel from the Celtic Church, through
missions from lona, itself a station of the Irish Church,
which had Christianised both Scots and Picts. In 635
S. Aidan fixed his bishop's stool or see in the island-penin-
sula of Lindisfarne, on the Northumbrian coast, and with
the assistance of Oswald, the king, converted Bernicia and
Deira. When Aidan died in 651 his mantle fell on S.
Cuthbert. The only portion of England that acknow-
ledged the Roman obedience were Kent, East Anglia,
and Wessex; but in 664, by the Synod of Whitby, the
Northumbrian and Mid-Saxon Churches were brought into
conformity with Roman usages ; and Archbishop Theodore
by his progress through the land between 669 and 677
brought the entire Anglo-Saxon Church to acknowledge
the supremacy of Canterbury.
It was not possible for the Northumbrians, owing their
Christianity to the Celtic clergy, to behave ruthlessly to
the Britons professing the faith they had received, and
-*
*-
22
Lives of the Saints.
-^
although in battle there was much slaughter, there were no
further massacres of the population, supposing these had
been, in the way assumed.
About 620 Edwin of Northumbria crushed the British
kingdom of Elmet, of which perhaps Leeds was the chief
city, and advanced to the sea at Chester, whence he sailed
to subdue Anglesey and Man. But against Edwin, Penda,
king of the Mercians, rose to wrest from him the over-
lordship of Wessex and East Anglia. Assisted by Cad-
wallon, king of the Britons, Edwin was defeated and slain
in the battle of Hatfield, 633.
It was not till the second half of the eighth century that
Devon was conquered, but not completely subjugated, for in
813 Egbert was engaged in hard fighting, and, as the Anglo-
Saxon chronicle says, " he laid waste West Wales from
eastward to westward." In 823 a decisive battle was fought
at Gavulford (now probably Galford), a place on the Roman
road from Exeter into Cornwall, where the hills close in to
nip the road between them ; the place along the whole line
which is the most suitable for defence. Extensive earthworks
mark the site, in the parish of Bridestowe. In 835 some
Danish vessels entered the Tamar, and the Britons, uniting
with them, attempted to recover the lands overrun by the
West Saxons. Egbert collected an army, and a battle was
fought at Hengesdon, on the Cornish side of the Tamar, in
which the allies were routed. The last relics of the in-
dependence of the Domnonian kingdom disappeared after
Athelstan's visits to West Wales in 926 and 928. On
the former expedition he reduced the king, Howel, to
submission, and on the next he expelled the British from
Exeter.
In the meantime the northern Welsh had been pressed
back into their mountains, the kingdom of Powys was
reduced, and the prince was constrained to abandon
*-
-*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 23
Pengwern (Shrewsbury) and set up his castle at Mathrafal.
At the close of the eighth century Offa, king of the
Mercians, threw up his dyke from the Dee to the Wye to
restrain the Welsh.
We must now look at Wales itself, and see what had
been its condition from the fifth century.
The original population had been Silurian, probably
throughout the whole country, but the Ordovices, a British
tribe, had pierced it, and had reached the sea in Cardigan,
and thence had sent colonies into Ireland. To a consider-
able extent the Silurian aborigines had become fused with
the Goidels. This became more pronounced as the Irish
Picts invaded both north and south. These latter became
masters of Gwynedd and of the Pembrokeshire peninsula.
They struck farther inland and occupied Brecknockshire.
At the beginning of the fifth century Cunedda Wledig,
chief of a body of horsemen defending the Roman wall,
either because driven south by the incursions of the Picts,
or invoked by the Britons of Wales, sent a force under the
command of his sons to free North Wales from the Irish
Goidels who oppressed it. This they succeeded in doing,
and thereupon settled themselves in the lands they had
freed, and carved it into principalities for themselves.
But the Cunedda family not only founded the reigning
house, but also furnished the Church with numerous saints.
In the sixth century Maelgwn, a descendant of Cunedda,
gained supreme power not only over Wales, but also Strath-
clyde. A century later another accession of saints came
from the same district, the descendants of Coel Godebog,
who settled in Wales and spread over it as evangelists and
apostles. They seem at first to have planted themselves in
Ergyng or Archenfeld, but thence moved to Anglesey and
Bangor.
From Southern Wales the Irish Goidels were not dis-
*- ^
24
Lives of the Saints.
lodged. In Brecknockshire the Irish Brychan was able to
justify his holding of the sovereignty on the plea of descent
from the ancient Welsh princes through his mother. He
died about 450, and from him issued a mighty family of
saints. He, or some of his family, must as well have
established themselves in Cornwall, for we find there also
a number of saints belonging to the same stock.
Clydwyn, son of Brychan, is reported to have established
his sovereignty over Menevia.
Somewhat later we find Cynyr of Caer Gawch, a petty
chief in Menevia, of British ancestry probably, married to
Anna, daughter of Vortimer. An illicit connection of his
daughter with a son of the house of Cunedda led to -the
birth of S. David, and to the establishment of another
saintly tribe.
The connection between Britain and Armorica had been
uninterrupted from an early age. In 316, as we have
seen, Cynan Meiriadog had led his army of picked men
from Wales, and had established himself in Brittany.^
The advance of the Saxons, and the rolling back of the
Britons, caused great numbers to fly to Armorica, and
this immigration continued with few interruptions for two
centuries.
The whole of the Breton peninsula, once occupied by
the Coriosolites and Osismi, had been so ravaged by
Frisians, and so exhausted previously by fiscal exactions
and the revolt of the Bagaudae, that it was almost denuded
of population. About Vannes the original Gaulish popu-
lation remained, as about Nantes and Rennes. The
*-
1 The Breton historians throw doubt on Cynan Meiriadog, and assert that he
landed at the mouth of the Rhine, and settled there. Undoubtedly there was a
British colony there, but the Welsh genealogies are very precise concerning Cynan
having settled in what is now called Brittany. There are no Breton records of
anything like the date of Cynan. Armorica included the whole north coast of Gaul
from the Morini westward.
-^
>^ . Ijl
T/ie Celtic Church and its Saints. 25
districts of Nantes and Rennes had been subjected to the
Franks, and Vannes owned a loose submission. Procopius
says that in the sixth century swarms of colonists from
Britain, men with their wives and children, came into
Armorica, " the most desert country of all Gaul." These
migrations assumed large dimensions in 450, 512-14, and
between 561 and 566.
The author of the Life of S. Winwaloe says, " The
sons of the Britons crossing the British sea landed on
these shores at the period when the barbarian Saxons
conquered the isle. These children of a loved race estab-
lished themselves in this country, happy to find repose
after so many griefs. In the meanwhile, the unfortunate
Britons who had not quitted their country were decimated
by plague. Their corpses lay without sepulture. The
major portion of the isle was depopulated. Then a small
number of men who had with difficulty escaped the sword
of the invaders abandoned their native land to seek
refuge, some among the Scots, though enemies, the rest
in Belgica." Ermold Nigellus, circ. 834, in a poem
addressed to Louis the Pius, says, that when they arrived
they were received by the Gauls in friendly fashion,
because they were Christians.
Eginhard, who wrote at the beginning of the ninth
century, says also, " When Britain was invaded by the
Angles and Saxons, a large portion of the inhabitants,
crossing the sea, occupied the districts of the Veneti and
Coriosolitae, at the extreme limit of Gaul."
There would seem to have been three main colonies.
One occupied the north coast of what is now the depart-
ment of Finisterre, and this was called Lyoness or Leon.
Another and larger colony took possession of the land
from Morlaix to the little river Couesnon, which now
divides lUe-et-Villaine from La Manche. All this dis-
•x*-
26
Lives of the Saints.
trict they called Domnonia. A third swarm took root
in the land south of the Monts Noires, from the Brest
roads to the mouth of the Elle', on which is Quimper, and
extending back to the river Oust. This was Cornouaille.
In process of time these British settlers got a considerable
footing in the territory of Vannes, so that the bishop
Regalis complained to the Frank king, Guntram, that
he was shut in by the Britons, and held by them as a
prisoner.'^
The districts of Nantes, Rennes, and Retz were not
British, and only by degrees did Vannes fall under their
domination, the city last of all.
The diocese of Vannes was not founded before the
latter part of the fifth century. It was not till the
Council of Tours in 465 that S. Paternus was appointed
to plant a church in Vannes, and he was obliged to fly
and abandon the attempt. He died shortly after, away
from his recalcitrant flock, among the Franks. Modestus,
his successor, who attended the Council of Orleans in
511, did what he could to advance Christianity among
the Veneti, but as the author of the Life of S. Melanius
tells us, the people at the time were almost all pagans.
The diocese of Rennes was not founded till 439, and
there the people were hardly at all converted till the time
of S. Melanius, Counsellor of Clovis in 511, who not
only brought his own diocese to nominal Christianity, but
also did something towards converting the Veneti. Such
being the case, there can be no question but that the rest
of Armorica was pagan, and that it owed its Christianity
solely to the British immigrants, who brought with them
their bishops and monks, their hturgy and their religious
peculiarities. Armorica was in nothing indebted to the
Frank Church, and we can quite understand the surprise
1 Greg. Turon. x. lo.
*-
-*
with which the Breton Church heard of the claims of
Tours to supremacy over it. In the dioceses of Nantes
and Rennes the churches are dedicated to saints of the
Roman kalendar, to Gallo-Roman heroes of the faith,
SS. Clarus, Donatianus, Hilary, Similian, Rogatian, Julian,
Martin, and the like. But the moment the ancient
frontier into Brittany is passed, with the exception of such
churches as are of later dedication to saints known
through the Gospels and Acts, all are British, common
to Wales and Cornwall, or of British ancestry — Paulus
Aurelianus, Gildas, Samson, Briock, Gerrans, Sulien, Teilo,
Oudoc, Sec. A well qualified writer, M. de Courson,
librarian of the Louvre, says : " I have had under my
eye a very exact list of the ancient parishes of Brittany,
with the names of their native saints, drawn up by the
late Count de Blois de la Calande. Now, all the names,
with the sole exception of that of S. Eligius, who had
become popular through his relations with S. Judicael —
all the names, I say, belong to British saints." ^
Unhappily, in their newly acquired lands, as in the old,
the Britons could not combine. They were engaged in in-
ternecine strife till Nominoe, in the middle of the ninth
century, not only formed of the confederacy a powerful
kingdom, but extended the limits of Brittany to include
Nantes, Rennes, and Retz, and the Duchy retained these
acquisitions till the Revolution of 1789.
It may well be understood that the new settlers brought
with them their clergy and monks, their native tribal organi-
sation and religious customs, and that they entirely re-
jected the claim pertinaciously made by the Archbishop of
Tours to have jurisdiction over Brittany.
But if I am not much mistaken, the colonies of Lyoness,
of Domnonia, and of Cornouaille in Armorica, remained
1 " De Courson : La Britagne du s"' au la'^ Sitcle," Paris, 1863, p. 169.
28 Lives of the Saints.
for a while under the native princes of Dyfnaint. There
was incessant drift to and fro. Arthur is represented as
having visited these settlements, and as having committed
the government during his absence to his cousin Hoel.
This was probably the Hoel Mawr of Breton legend, in
537 king of Domnonia.
This Hoel the Great was the Riwal of the legend of
S. Melor; he was married to Alma Pompsea, daughter
of Budic, king of Cornouaille. He it was who murdered
Melyan, his brother-in-law, and his nephew, Melor. Riwal
is Rhi-Hywel, or Hoel the Lord or Prince. It was probably
owing to his usurpation that Tewdrig, the other son of
Budic, remained in his principality of Cornwall, where he
fell on and killed some of the Irish colonists who came
to settle in Pengwaeth, the Land's End district, and has
left his trace in legend as a persecutor of the saints.
It was due to the violence of Hoel the Great that his
brothers, Amwn Ddu, father of S. Samson and S. Tathan,
Pedredin, father of S. Padarn, Gwyndaf Hen, father of S.
Mewgan and S. Malo, and Umbrafel, father of S. Maglorius,
fled for their lives and took refuge in Wales about 537.
In 545 Hoel died, and was succeeded by his son, Hoel
Vychan, or the Little, when again a dynastic convulsion
occurred. His brother, Canao, murdered him, and would
have killed his other brother, Macliau, had not the latter
hidden himself and then escaped to Vannes. This was in
547 or thereabouts, and Canao maintained his position as
Prince of Breton Cornouaille till 555, when Judual, son of
the murdered Hoel, backed by Childebert, and supported
by his cousin, S. Samson, at the head of levies of immi-
grants and discontented Bretons, defeated Canao and
killed him. Samson and Judual had, in fact, headed
another migration of British. These were fugitives from
the West Saxons after the battle of Barbury Hill and the
)J(-
(J( — ^
The Celtic Church a?id its Saints. 29
occupation of Berkshire and the Thames valley. Some
of these settled in L^on. The lead was taken by chiefs
from Gwent. Macliau, who was Bishop of Vannes, seized
on the opportunity to drive away Tewdric, his nephew, the
youthful son of Budic II., king of Cornouaille, and possess
himself of his inheritance, which he retained till Tewdric
was old enough and strong enough to return, stir up an
insurrection, and kill the bishop and one of his sons, and
recover Cornouaille.
It will be seen that through the constant intercourse
between Brittany, Cornwall, and Wales most of the saints
of the former, down to the seventh century, are intimately
associated with the two latter. Cornwall and Wales were
the natural places of refuge of the princes of each genera-
tion at the periodical outburst of fratricidal ambition on
the death of each prince. And when S. Samson and S.
Padarn, and S. Winwaloe, and other saints of Armorican
origin established settlements in Cornwall, it was not only
for a pious motive, but so as to be near at hand when the
opportunity offered to make a rush for the mainland to
recover their inheritances, and in the event of being worsted,
of having an asylum in which to take refuge.^
Having thus sketched the history of the Britons from
the Roman conquest, and having indicated, as far as is
known, the ethnology of the population, we will turn back
to follow the fortunes of the Christian Church among the
Celts of Britain.
There can hardly be a doubt that the Church received
her organisation, her orders, and her liturgy from Gaul,
and not directly from Rome.
The Gallic liturgies, supposed by many to have had an
Ephesine origin, and to have come through Lyons and
1 Owing to the importance of the early history of Brittany and to the great diffi-
cuUy in elucidating it, I have appended a summary as a separate article.
i^ — *
30 Lives of the Saints.
Aries, with far greater probability derive from Milan, the
original liturgy of which was largely Oriental, and against
the authority and diffusion of which Rome had at one time
to fight even to maintain its own.
A curious story was introduced into the revised lists of
the Roman pontiffs to the effect that Lucius, a British
king, had sent to Pope Eleutherius for missionaries to in-
struct his people in the faith. There is nothing improbable
in such an appeal, when the Britons looked to Rome for
her cohorts to defend them and for articles of luxury ; but
the evidence is suspicious. It is not to be found in the
earliest list, and was foisted in at a later period, apparently
with deliberate purpose to give to Rome a claim over the
independent Church in Britain, as her spiritual mother.
The external framework of the Empire formed the die
into which was run the Christian Church as it left the
hands of the Apostles, and it took shape and hardened into
a diocesan system corresponding to the political organisa-
tion of the Empire.
Among the semi-Romanised Britons, no doubt to some
extent this system had prevailed, but only to a very limited
degree. The Romans do not seem to have interfered more
than was needful with the national organisation, which was
tribal. They left the land in the hands of the tribes, to be
divided as was customary among them, and to be under
their several chiefs, caring only to exact from them homage
and tribute. When the Christian Church was established in
Britain there were doubtless bishops in the several cities,
such as London, York, and Caerleon, also perhaps at
Carlisle. But to what extent they exercised jurisdiction
over dioceses we do not know. The territorial system was
strange to the Celt, and if the bishops were Britons, as is
probable, they also almost certainly exercised an ill-defined
authority.
^ . ij,
The Celtic Chu7'ch and its Saints. 31
In Africa, in Asia Minor, and in Italy, every town had
its bishop, and such bishops held spiritual jurisdiction over
the district that was under the civil governor residing in
the town. The two jurisdictions were conterminous.
But a different state of affairs prevailed among the Celts.
Their organisation was not territorial, but tribal. Each
tribe indeed occupied a district, and it was under a chief.
It was governed by a council of its householders, but in
war was subject to the absolute rule of its chief. The
government was at once democratic and monarchical.
Land was held by the tribe, and was distributed among
the members by the chief, aided by the council, and was
re-parcelled as occasion arose. In return for the land, the
clansmen owed him allegiance and military service. Each
clan constituted an integral whole, and was independent
of every other clan; and although several might be allied
in customs, blood, and language, yet they acknowledged
no bond. This was the great defect in the entire system.
There was no nation, only an assemblage of tribes, each inde-
pendent of the other, cohering temporarily, and the cohesion
dissolved by the merest trifle. All peoples pass through
certain stages of social and political growth, and after having
made mistakes, rectify them and develop their innate great-
ness and characteristic virtues. But the Briton was not given
the chance. His political education was arrested by the
Roman conquest. It was again retarded by the Saxon
invasion.
The tribe followed the chief as a swarm follows a queen
bee. An individual not belonging to it was treated as an
alien, who might be robbed and murdered with impunity.
A member of another tribe was necessarily a stranger and
an enemy.
When the number of heads of families in a clan increased
to such an extent that the chief could no longer find them
-*
32 Lives of the Saints.
lands, there remained no resource but migration or war
against a neighbour; but the obUgation on the chief to supply
land ceased after the lapse of a certain number of genera-
tions. Then a swarm went off, conquered for itself a new
home, and settled till it also outgrew its bounds. The prac-
tical result of this system was twofold : in the first place, it
destroyed independence in the individual, who considered
it his due to be furnished with lands by his chief; and in
the second place, it produced chronic war among the tribes,
and prevented united action against a common foe.
The law of gavelkind prevailed. Every princeling, if
he had a dozen sons, on his death, left his authority and
his command over land to be parcelled out and subdivided
into twelve. Consequently rivalries, jealousies, internecine
quarrels prevailed, and were made use of by the common
enemy, and the folly of infinitesimal subdivision was not
perceived till too late.
When Christianity appeared among the Celts, who did
not live in the towns, and had not been citizenised and
divested of their native character, it was compelled to assume
an attitude and to adopt methods consonant with the Celtic
constitution. The only possible mode in which it could
make way was by winning the consent of the chief of the
clan. No tribesman could profess Christianity without the
permission of his chief, whom he was bound to obey in
religious matters as in military. Consequently the first
missionaries at once applied to the chiefs of the tribes, and
if they did not convert them, they induced them to sur-
render to them a patch of land on which to settle. The
inducement was fear. The chieftains feared the new
medicine-men, and trembled lest their curses should prove
more efficacious than the blessings of the Druids. The
princes conciliated these new sorcerers with grants of land,
in the hope that their incantations, in consort with those
* i^
AisrciENT
A\^ALES.
i 0 ^ -0 <S 20 26 50 ^i/es
NOR
YWERBDOX
CaerGaw-
6rrvl.
Appendix Vol., p. 32.]
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 33
of the Druids, would render themselves invulnerable in a
fray, and the tribe victorious in all its aggressions.
When the missionary had obtained a plot of land, he
threw up an embankment enclosing a circular or oval
space, and planted a stockade on top. Within he erected
huts : if among Brythons, of wood and wattle ; if among
Goidels, of stone, circular, and these accommodated the
population that accrued to him — slaves given by the chief,
outlaws seeking refuge, bastards who had no claim on
the tribal inheritance. Thus originated the Tribe of the
Saint, a population subject to the missionary as chieftain,
but also owing military service to the head of the secular
tribe.
By slow degrees the Druids fell into disrepute, and their
land and serfs were usurped by, or granted to, the saints.
Thus it came about that side by side with the Tribe of the
Land was to be found the Tribe of the Saint.
Moreover, the missionary settlements soon outgrew their
bounds, and swarmed, as did the members of the Tribe
of the Land, when not repeatedly thinned by war. Con-
sequently we hear of the early saints wandering about in
an apparently aimless manner, but always seeking to found
fresh colonies, usurp lands that had been granted to the
discredited medicine-men, found new churches, and extort
fresh grants.
These saintly establishments were counterparts of such
as were secular. They consisted of households comprising
men and women, and they multiplied naturally. All the
householders looked to the saint as their head, just as in
the secular tribe all the members looked to and obeyed
the chief.
But the members of the ecclesiastical tribe were not
wholly independent of the head of the secular tribe ; they
still owed to him military service, whether laymen or clergy.
VOL. XVI. c
*-
-*
34
Lives of the Saints,
Even in Ireland the women were not exempt. Doubtless
the ecclesiastics were called out to curse the enemies of the
chief, and if their curses proved ineffectual, they suffered
deprivation.
In Ireland it was not till 804 that monks and clergy
were exempt from bearing arms against the foe of the
chief, and then they by no means relished their release.
Women were not relieved of their obligations to arm and
fight in the ranks till the Synod of Drumceatt (a.d. 500),
and then only on the urgency of S. Columba.
Moreover, just as one secular tribe fought another, be-
cause of some quarrel between the chiefs, or because one
wanted the lands of the other, or out of mere wantonness,
so was it with the religious tribes. The monks regarded
themselves as bound together into one tribe under an
abbot, and they envied other monastic settlements. In
672 a battle was fought between the rival monasteries of
Clonmacnois and Durrow, and Dermot Duff, leader of the
men of Durrow, fell before the monks of Clonmacnois,
together with two hundred of his followers. In 816 no
less than four hundred men were slain in a battle between
rival monasteries. In 700 the clergy of Ireland attended
their synods sword in hand, and fought those who differed
from them in opinion, leaving the ground strewn with
corpses. S. Columba stirred up a fratricidal war between
the men of the South and those of the North of the clan of
Neill merely because he was not allowed to retain a copy
of a book he had made, and this cost the Meath men no
fewer than three thousand slain. If we may trust Gildas,
British churchmen were not much better.
In time the chiefs themselves founded religious settle-
ments and placed over them sons, sometimes in orders,
sometimes not, so that ecclesiastical as well as political
supremacy might be in their families.
-*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 35
" In Ireland," says Dr, Todd, " the land granted in fee
to S. Patrick, or any other ecclesiastic, by its original
owner, conveyed to the clerical society, of which it became
the endowment, all the rights of a chieftain or head of
a clan; and these rights, with the rights of the secular
chieftains, descended in hereditary succession. The con-
arb, or co-arb, that is to say, the heir successor of the
original saint who was the founder of the religious society,
whether bishop or abbot, became the inheritor of his
spiritual and ofificial influence in religious matters. The
descendants in blood, or founder's kin, were inheritors of
the temporal rights of property and chieftainship, although
bound to exercise those rights in subjection or subordina-
tion to the ecclesiastical co-arb." ^
At lona, out of eleven immediate successors to S.
Columba, there was but one who certainly did not belong
to his family, and one other, of whose parentage we have
no information. Phelim was bishop and chief of Cashel
in the middle of the ninth century. In 850 he fell upon
Armagh, slaying priests and bishop wherever he caught
them. The kingdom of Munster was held by chiefs who
combined the ecclesiastical with the secular power, and
were bishops as well as princes. Armagh was a hereditary
bishopric for eight generations to 1129. It is often
asserted that these archbishops were lay intruders, but
this is disputable. To hold the saintship and bequeath
it to a son was quite in order, according to Celtic ideas.
In Wales the same principle prevailed ; bishoprics, canon-
ries, and parochial benefices passed from father to son,
or were retained in one family for generations. Where
an ecclesiastic had, say, four sons, he divided the ecclesi-
astical inheritance among them, for each had a right to
his share if born after his father had become bishop or
1 Todd, " S. Patrick," p. 149.
*-
i
*-
36
Lives of the Saints.
-*
priest, but if he had been born earlier, then he had no
claim on the ecclesiastical inheritance. Giraldus Cam-
brensis mentions one benefice that was held by two
brothers, one a layman, the other in orders. Benefices
in Wales and in parts of England with more than one
rector, as, for instance, Tiverton, which had five till quite
recently, owe their origin to this custom.
Should the tribe of the saint be without a head, and
there was no one available in the family of the chief of the
land to take the place of saint, or chief of the ecclesias-
tical tribe, then some one not of his blood was appointed
to be the saint; but if so, he was required to give securities
that he would resign his saintship as soon as there was one
of the prince's family qualified to assume it.
How splendid and influential the position of the saint
or head of an ecclesiastical settlement was, may be judged
from the " Life of S. Cadoc." The author thus describes
his power at Llancarvan. " He daily fed a hundred
clergy and a hundred soldiers, and a hundred workmen
and a hundred poor men, with the same number of
widows. This was the number of his household, besides
servants in attendance, and esquires and guests, whose
number also was uncertain. Nor is it strange that he was
a rich man and supported many, for he was abbot and
prince."
When the chieftain of the land did not absorb also
the chieftainship of the ecclesiastical tribe, then continual
friction existed between the head of the land and the head
of the Church ; the former not only exacted military service
from the members of the ecclesiastical establishment, but
also an annual tax and contributions in kind. If the tax
were not paid, he distrained and carried off the cattle of
the saint, who had no other means of redress than to curse,
and this he did freely. If any disaster followed, this was
ijt-
-«
-*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 37
at once attributed to the virtue of the curse ; and on the
whole, the spiritual heads got their own way. S. Beuno
cursed a chief, and he dissolved into a puddle ; S. Cadoc
cursed his servant because he was clumsy in lighting a fire,
and the flame leaped forth and consumed the man ; some
men who offended him had their beards and half the hair
of their head removed, and the ears of their horses sliced
off. Men on whom the curses of the saints fell were
drowned, smothered in bogs, turned into stone, melted
into lumps of wax, stricken with lightning. Even after S.
Cadoc was dead, the corpse roared like a bull because the
coffin was jostled.
The first stage in Ireland, Wales, and perhaps Scot-
land, was that indicated above, where the ecclesiastical
tribe contained the professional believers, that is to say,
the saint and those who owed to him tribal allegiance,
that allegiance extending to the profession of his re-
ligion. In this stage the stockaded settlement contained
men and women, households of those dependent on the
saint ; all working for him and for themselves, and paying
a tribate in kind and service to the chief of the clan of
the land. But when the faith spread and was universally
professed, then the condition of affairs was altered. All
the members of the clan could not pass into the saintly
tribe, nor would the chieftain of the land tolerate the
saintly tribe becoming too populous and powerful. A
readjustment of arrangements took place. Either, as in
Armagh, the chieftain constituted himself ecclesiastical
head, and so resolved the double tribe into one under one
head, temporal and spiritual at once, or else, and that
more commonly, he withdrew from the tribe of the saint
all its lay retainers, and the establishment resolved itself,
or was compulsorily resolved into, a monastic society,
comprising only clerics and monks, into which no women
*-
38
Lives of the Saints.
-*
were admitted ; or the saintship was given to a daughter
of the ruling house, with sisters and monks and bishops
under her. When we read of the great monasteries of
Bangor Iscoed, Bangor in Ireland, Llancarvan, Llantwit,
Clonmacnois, &c., with their thousands of monks, we
hear of them in their second stage. Nevertheless, the
hereditary principle remained in force, and the superior,
the abbot, or saint was almost always of the family of the
founder.
A peculiarity of this arrangement was that ecclesiastical
jurisdiction was in the hands of the abbot or saint, who
might be a layman, but who was very often not a bishop.
Not only so, but where the headship was in the hands of
a woman, she exercised jurisdiction over the entire district
occupied by the tribe to which she belonged. In this case
one, perhaps a dozen, in some cases a score, of bishops were
members of the community, ranking just above the cellarer,
exercising no jurisdiction, but kept in stock for the purpose
of ordaining and consecrating in obedience to the orders
of the abbot. The union of jurisdiction with the special
grace of power to confer orders is a matter of ecclesiastical
arrangement only, and in the Celtic Church did not exist,
except perhaps among the Romanised Britons.
The term " saint " was applied at first very much as is
the later term " religious " now. It signified no more
than that the saint was the head of the religious tribe,
and it may be, and probably was, applied indiscriminately
to these heads, irrespective of their moral fitness for their
position, or their conduct as ecclesiastical chiefs.
When the Bollandists began to compile the Acta Sanc-
torum they were vastly perplexed how to deal with the
thousands of Celtic saints of whom they read. For
instance. Bishop Gerald of Mayo was related to have
ruled over 3300 saints — in this case saint meant no more
*-
>i<-
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 39
than monk. In the isle of Bardsey as many as 20,000
saints were said to have laid their bones. The BoUandists
say : " The Irish would not have been so liberal in canon-
ising dead men in troops whenever they seemed to be
somewhat better than usual if they had adhered to the
custom of the Universal Church, and given that honour
to martyrs only."
But the BoUandist writer did not understand the case.
It was not one of canonisation at all, but of alteration in
the signification of a word. The Apostle spoke of the
saints at Corinth and Ephesus, but some of these were
exceedingly immoral persons. A " religious," as a Latin
would term him, would by a Celt in those days be de-
signated a " saint." In the second stage the term came
to be limited to founders of settlements and churches. It
may be remarked that only noble and princely families
produced saints, for indeed none not well born could
become head of an ecclesiastical tribe. At the same
time, it is observable that a very discreditable origin is
given to a good many Celtic saints; that was due to the
fact of the headship of a religious settlement being given
as a means of provision for a princely bastard.
If a woman of one tribe went astray with a member
of another tribe, her child had no rights in her tribe, none
in that of the father. But if that woman was, as in the
case of the mothers of S. David and S. Kentigern, of
a princely house, then their fathers or brothers found a
means of providing for these illegitimates by making them
saints. It has caused perplexity to account for the number
of children attributed to some of the founders of saintly
families. Brychan is given twenty-four sons and twenty-
five daughters, in all forty-nine children, and of these half
were saints. The explanation is that these saints were of
the kin of Brychan, and so were appointed to monasteries
*-
*-
40
Lives of the Saints.
or ecclesiastical settlements that fell to his share by right
of conquest. When a prince looked about him to settle his
family he brought up so many to be warriors and the rest
to be saints.
It has provoked some comment that nearly all the saints
of the Welsh Church were foreigners, i.e. members of in-
vading and conquering families. The three saintly families
of Wales were respectively those of the Irish Brychan, con-
queror of Brecknock, the Pict Cunedda, who invaded Wales
from the north, and of the Northern Caw, who came from
Albany. The fact was that these invaders turned out the
native chieftains from their headship in the land and in the
Church, and gave all places of authority to their own children
and clansmen.
To return once more to the separation that prevailed
in the Celtic Church between jurisdiction and the episcopal
office. A territorial distribution and jurisdiction over a
see was given to bishops because the Roman civil organi-
sation showed the way, but where, as in the Celtic world,
there was a different sort of organisation, that which was
tribal, with now shrinking then expanding confines, the
Church had to accommodate herself to those conditions
with that elasticity which belongs to her. In the Celtic
world the tribe was the only constituted entity, and the
land changed hands as the tribes fought and wrested soil
from one another ; not for ages were the boundaries fixed.
But in the Roman world the districts were mapped out,
and the people subjected to rulers over these districts, to
whatever race or clan they might belong.
The ecclesiastical jurisdiction was first of all in the hands
of the founder, a missionary saint, but then it passed by the
principle of heredity to whoever represented him in blood,
or to the nearest of kin to the chief of the land.
At Kildare, S. Bridget had bishops under her direc-
*-
*
tion and orders. So had S. Ninnoch in Brittany. In
lona, S. Columba in priest's orders ruled over Bishop
Etchen.
There was no parochial system; there could be none
when the land was parcelled up and distributed among
different members of the tribe every few years. The
ecclesiastical foci were the settlements of the saints.
These were permanent, for the land about them was in
the permanent possession of the saint for the time being.
When a member of a religious establishment became rest-
less or restive he went off, taking with him some like-
minded saints, and established a new settlement.
When the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes first invaded Britain
they almost exterminated the British people ; those whom
they did not enslave they drove back to North and West.
Apparently the Church of Romano - British had been
hitherto fully occupied with the conversion of the peoples
of the same race elsewhere. If we hold that S. Patrick
came from Strathclyde, then the conversion of Ireland
was due to it ; certainly so also was that of the Goidelic
peoples in the North and West. After Ireland was
brought to the faith by Patrick it relapsed, and its recon-
version was due to Welsh missions. Hosts of saintly
evangelists, moreover, sallied forth from Ireland a little
later and overran Western Europe, England, Scotland,
Brittany, France, Alsatia, Lorraine, and penetrating into
Bavaria, Rhaetia, Helvetia, Germany, and even Italy,
founded settlements after the native type. All that part of
the British Isle now called Scotland owed its Christianity
to the mission of Columba from Ireland ; so did the great
Northumbrian Church, where the invaders of German blood
were brought to the worship of Christ through the missions
from lona. Wales, Cornwall, were Christian long before
Augustine was born. *' By armies of monastic mission-
*-
*i*-
42
Lives of the Saints,
aries," says Mr. Haddan, " and next by learned teachers —
first attracting pupils to Irish schools from all Christian
Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees, and next, by
sending forth men to become the founders of schools,
or monasteries, or churches abroad — the churches of St.
Patrick and S. Columba stand out, from the sixth century
forward, as the most energetic centres of religious life and
knowledge in Europe ; the main restorers of Christianity
in paganised England and Roman Germany ; the reformers
and main founders of monastic life in Northern France ;
the opponents of Arianism, even in Italy itself; the origi-
nators in the West of the well-meant, however mistaken,
system of the Penitentials ; the leading preservers in the
eighth and ninth centuries of theological and classic culture,
Greek as well as Latin ; the scribes, both at home and
abroad, of many a Bible text ; the teachers of psalmody ;
the schoolmasters of the great monastic schools ; the
parents, in great part, as well as the forerunners, of Anglo-
Saxon learning and missionary zeal ; the senders forth of
not the least bright stars among the galaxy of talent gathered
by Charlemagne from all quarters to instruct his degenerate
Franks, . . . down to the very Normanising of the Celtic
Churches in the entire British Isles in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries." ^
1 Haddan: "Remains," p. 260. I subjoin an incomplete list of the monasteries
or centres of mission work founded by these Irish evangelists on the Continent : —
In France : Irish foundations. — Remiremont, Lure, Besanijon, Romain-Moutier,
Bezieres, Brezille, Cusance, S. Ursanne,Jouarre, Reuil, Rebai.x, Faremoutier, S. Maur-
les-Foss^s, Lagny, Moutier-la-Celle, Hautvilliers, Moutier-en-Der, S. Salaberga, Fon-
tenelles, Jumieges, S. Saens, Luxeuil, Anegray, Fontaines, Peronne, Toul, Araboise,
Beaulieu, Strasburg.
In Brittany : Welsh foundations. — Dol, Rhys, S. Brieuc, Landewennec, Trecor,
Aleth, Plaz, Baulon, Penpont, Suliac, Pentual, Castel Paul, &c.
In the Netherlands.— Namur, Waulsort, Liege, Gueldres, Hautmont, Soignes,
Malines.
In Germany and Switzerland. — Hohenau, Erfurt, EfTenheim, Schuttern, Wiirz-
burg, Memmingen, Mainz, Cologne, Ratisbon, Constance, Reichenau, S. Gall,
Bregenz, Rheinau, Dissentis, Seckingen.
In Italy. — Bobbio, Taranto, Lucca, Faenza, and Fiesole.
*-
-*
^-
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 43
Maccald, a native of Down, became Bishop of Man in
the fifth century, S. Donan was the apostle of Uig, S.
Maelrubb, of Skye. In fact, the Christianising of the whole
of the north-west of Scotland and the adjacent isles was
due to S. Coluniba. Irish monks pushed as far as the
Faroe Isles and Iceland. S. Brendan thrust his vessel
towards the setting sun, seeking lands to conquer for
Christ. S. Aidan, the apostle of Northumbria, whose
diocese extended from the Humber to the Firth of Forth,
was an Irishman from lona. Diuma, the first bishop of
the Mercians, and his successor, Ceallach, were both Irish-
men. S. Fursey, another, preached the Gospel in Suffolk.
Mailduff established a mission centre among the West
Saxons. S. Bega laboured in Cumberland. From the
beginning of the sixth century they overspread Europe,
and Irishmen for their distinguished piety were elected to
fill sees even in Italy.
The Celtic Church had other peculiarities beside that of
dissociating jurisdiction from the episcopal office. It ob-
served Easter on a different day from the Latin Church,
but this was due to an error occasioned by its isolation,
very similar to that in which the Eastern Church is now
involved from the same cause — adhering to an antiquated
system of calculation. In reckoning the date of Easter,
every year, the Roman Church had followed the Jewish
cycle of eighty-four years, while the Alexandrian Church
used the metonic system of nineteen years. This led to
great inconvenience, and in the year 387 some observed
Easter on March 21st, others on April i8th, others again
on April 25th. This became intolerable, and Pope Hilary
employed Victorinus to frame a new cycle, which was
thenceforth followed in the Latin Church. But the in-
vasions of barbarians had cut off" the Celtic Churches
from communication with the rest of the Christian world.
«--
*-
44
Lives of the Sainis.
-*
so that they were ignorant of this change, and continued
to follow the old Jewish cycle, as observed at Rome
and in Gaul previous to the change, of which they had not
heard.
Nothing could exceed the indignation and disgust of
Augustine and his followers when they ascertained that the
British Church observed Easter on a different day from
themselves. Instead of inquiring into the cause, and deal-
ing gently by argument with the bishops and abbots of
Britain, they heaped on them epithets expressive of loath-
ing, termed them Quartodecimans, which they were not —
but an ugly name answered their purpose — and denounced
them as schismatics and heretics.
This unhappy miscalculation about Easter proved a
grievous cause of weakness in the Celtic Church, for those
of her saints who travelled to Gaul or Italy were forced to
admit that their native Church was in error, and returning
home formed a party which laboured for the abandonment
of the old computation.
Another peculiarity was the tonsure assumed by the clergy.
Cutting the locks in a certain fashion was a symbol of
belonging to a tribe, just as puncturing the ear marks a
horse turned loose on downs as the property of certain
owners.
An illustration occurs in the life of S. David. His
missionary work was bitterly opposed by the Irish settler
Boia, the remains of whose castle are still traceable half, a
mile below S. David's, on the Allun. But more hostile to
the saint than the chief was his wife. In order to pro-
pitiate the gods and induce them to destroy the saint, this
woman resolved on a sacrifice. The best and most
efficacious that could be offered would be a child of her
womb, but she had none. Therefore she called to her a
daughter-in-law named Dunawel, retired with her into a
*-
»J< >Jf
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 45
hazel grove, placed the girl's head on her lap that she
might cut and braid her hair, such an act betokening
adoption into the family. Then the woman with a sharp
knife cut her throat, and offered the expiring life to
the gods.
The peculiar shaving and shearing of the hair adopted
by the Celtic clergy betokened their adoption into the
family of God, the ecclesiastical tribe.
This peculiarity was also laid hold of by Augustine and
his followers, and denounced in furious terms as the ton-
sure of Simon Magus, as the badge of perversity and
diabolical heresy.
There were other differences, as that episcopal consecra-
tion was administered by a single bishop instead of by
three, as decreed by the Council of Aries ; but as Gregory
the Great had told Augustine that in case of need he might
dispense with coadjutors in the conferring of episcopal
orders, this point would not have been pressed had not
Augustine and the Latin missionaries gone out of their
way to find occasion against the native Church. In fact,
these points served as excuses for insulting and repudiating
the Church of the Britons. Augustine was angry to find
that he had been forestalled, and that there was an Apos-
tolic and Catholic Church of at least three centuries' growth
in the island, which he had entered figuring as its apostle.
He might, indeed, have swallowed his spleen had he found
the British bishops ready to cast themselves at his feet and
become his humble henchmen. As they would not con-
sent to this, he and his Latin clergy, and their successors,
covered them with obloquy.
At the bottom of all the differences lay the independence
of the Celtic Churches, which owed no allegiance to the
Papal chair, had organised themselves, expanded, and evan-
gehsed, had manifested extraordinary vigour, and produced
-*
46
Lives of the Saints,
-*
great sanctity in their independence. There was a robust-
ness and healthiness about their churches that the Latin
missionaries did not rehsh. In episcopal constitution,
derivation of orders from the Apostolic fountain-head, in
unity of doctrine, in liturgical forms, the Celtic Churches
were one with the Catholic Church throughout the world,
whether Eastern or Western. They were ready to acknow-
ledge a certain primacy in the Roman see, as S. Colum-
banus said, later, " next to Jerusalem," but such a half
admission would not satisfy those who were, before all
things, missionaries to extend the Papal authority.
Every sort of false accusation, malignant insinuation, and
open outrage was offered to the ancient British Church.
Its orders were ignored, its ministrations flouted, the
orthodoxy of its prelates disputed.
Those British Christians who visited Rome, or were for
a while in Gaul, returned intensely Romanised, and threw in
their lot with the anti-national party, much as some young
clergy of the present day after a visit to the Continent
return enamoured with some fantastic ceremony they have
witnessed abroad and endeavour to thrust it on their
reluctant congregations at home, and who maintain that
what is done in Latin churches must be right.
The temper of mind in which the Celtic bishops and
abbots regarded the Popes may be judged from the letters
of S. Columbanus. The position assumed by him towards
the Pope substantially amounted to this : an acknowledg-
ment of the Bishop of Rome as a true bishop of the
Church of Christ, but as one having no jurisdiction over
himself; and a claim to criticise freely, and from the inde-
pendent standpoint of an equal, the character and conduct
of the Roman pontiff.
The language which he addressed to Boniface IV. is not
that of a subordinate to a sovereign in the Church, but is
*-
*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 47
couched in terms of great freedom. He laments over the
infamy that attaches itself to the chair of S. Peter in con-
sequence of the miserable squabbles that rage in Rome.
He warns the prelate not to forfeit his dignity by per-
versity, for his power depends, says he, on his maintaining
right judgment in all things, for that only such an one can
be regarded as a holder of the keys of heaven who opens
the doors to the good and shuts to the bad. He exhorts
the Pope to cleanse his see from error, for it would be a
lamentable thing for the Apostolic See to lapse from the
Catholic faith. He upbraids the Roman Church for
making exaggerated claims to authority and power other
than what was possessed by other Churches, and he allows
to the see of Rome a high position of honour, second only
to that of Jerusalem.
If this were the general relation in which the British
Churches stood to the Papal See, no wonder that Pope
Vitalian, in 667, wrote to King Oswy to choose an arch-
bishop for Canterbury who should root out the tares from
the whole island, alluding thereby to the clergy of the
National Church.
The peculiarity in the observance of Easter was aban-
doned by the Church in the south of Ireland in 634, by
the Northumbrian Church in 664 ; the Britons of Strath-
clyde submitted in 668, the northern Scots in Ireland in
697 ; in 704 a Roman party was formed in lona itself. The
British of the eastern portion of the West Welsh in Devon
and Cornwall accepted the Roman computation in 710.
The change took place in Wales between 768 and 777.
Llandewennec, in Brittany, retained the Celtic tonsure
till 817.
There exists at Canterbury a copy of a letter written by
Kenstec, or Kenstet, bishop-elect of the Cornish Britons,
in which he professes his obedience to the see of Canter-
*
*-
-*
48
Lives of the Saints.
bury, then ruled by Ceolnoth, who was archbishop between
833 and 870.
In 884 a Saxon see was constituted at Exeter, with
jurisdiction given by Canterbury over Cornwall.
In 905 the Pope having complained to King Edward
the Elder and to Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury,
that the great see of Wessex had been vacant for seven
years, Edward and Plegmund together divided the see
into five : Winchester, Framsbury, Sherborne, Wells, and
Crediton, and to Crediton were assigned three estates in
Wales, i.e. Cornwall, to be under the authority of the
Bishop of Devon, because hitherto the Cornish had been
without awe of the West Saxons. The bishop was of
course a Saxon, Eadulf. Moreover, an order was made
that the bishop should pay an annual visit to Cornwall " to
extirpate their errors, for formerly they resisted the truth,
and did not obey the apostolical decrees," that is to say,
they clung to their traditional observances and to the
independence of their Church, all which was hateful in
the eyes of such men as Plegmund. An interesting letter
by Archbishop Dunstan has been recovered, in which he
says that the Cornish had their own bishop, Conan (Cunan),
and that he lived in the reign of Athelstan, 925-940.
But under Edred, 945-955, there was another, Daniel,
whose bishop's stool was at S. Germans. But Edgar
bade Dunstan consecrate Wulfsige, a Saxon, whose signa-
ture remains in 980 and 988. The Cornish see seems to
have been transferred from S. Germans to S. Petrocks
(Bodmin) some time after Daniel's consecration, and was
iDrought back in 981. The Cornish see of S. Germans
was extinguished, and jurisdiction over the West Welsh
was given to the Saxon bishop of Crediton, 1042, and
was transferred to Exeter in 1050.
The method adopted by the Saxon kings, partly in their
*- *
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 49
own interest, partly in that of Rome, was to quell all
religious as well as political independence in the Cornish,
and this policy was pursued also by the Danish and Norman
kings. The process followed was this : First^ the British
bishops and clergy were subjected to a torrent of abuse
as heretics and schismatics, till they yielded their pecu-
liarities and adopted the correct Easter computation, the
Latin tonsure, and territorial in place of tribal organisa-
tion in the Church. Secondly, Saxon bishops were intruded
in place of native Cornish rulers. Then, thirdly, the epis-
copal throne was withdrawn from Cornwall wholly, and
placed, first in Crediton, then in Exeter, away from all
association with Celts; for, be it recalled, Athelstan had
expelled the British from Exeter. And this was done with
Papal approval, for it was the stifling of ecclesiastical inde-
pendent life in the Celtic race in the Domnonian peninsula.
This will be more apparent when we give the list of
bishops as far as is known : —
Kenstec, Bishop at Dinnurrin, in Cornwall, submitted to Canter-
bury, 833-870 ; a Briton.
Eadulf, Bishop (Saxon) at Crediton, was given three manors in
Wales beyond the Tamar — a foothold among the pure Britons,
905.
CONAN, Bishop at S. Petrocks (Bodmin), 931-940 ; a Briton, but
retained much about the court of Athelstan, and apparently
more there than in Cornwall.
Daniel, Bishop at S. Germans, 945-955 ; probably a Briton.
Athelstan, an intruded Saxon, 955-959.
CoMOERE, Bishop at S. Germans, 959-966 ; probably a Briton.
WULFSIGE, an intruded Saxon, 966-988.
Ealdreu, an intruded Saxon, 993-997.
BuRHWOLD, an intruded Saxon, 1002-1020.
Lyving, Saxon Bishop of Crediton, having already three manors
in Cornwall, now obtained the abolition of an independent
Cornish bishopric, and the subjection of the whole of Corn-
wall to the see of Crediton, 1026-1038.
Leokric, 1046-1071, had the see of Crediton, together with juris-
diction over Cornwall, removed to Exeter.
VOL. XVI. D
* ■ i^
»f<-
50
Lives of the Saints,
*
Not till 1877 was a bishop's stool restored to the West
Welsh, with Truro as the cathedral, and not yet has a
Cornishman been given the pastoral staff to hold spiritual
rule over his brother Cornishmen.
In Wales a somewhat similar process was pursued.
Elbod, or Elfod, Bishop of Bangor, in 768 induced North
Wales, and in 777 South Wales, to adopt the Roman
Easter; and the process of transforming the organisation
of the Church from one tribal into one that was in con-
formity with the Latin usage, proceeded gradually.
It was possibly due to Armorican influence that the
Welsh Church abandoned its peculiarities. As Mr. Borlase
happily puts it, " We can readily imagine that the natives
would adopt changes from their brethren in Armorica, while
the Saxons might strive in vain to force them upon them.
The Briton was stubborn and unbending, and he is so to
this day. He might be led, but he would never be driven.
His'errors, if they were errors (and this we may be quite sure
he did not admit), would be dearer to him than an ortho-
doxy enforced by the conquerors, and thereafter to be worn
by him as one of the badges of his vanquished race." "^
In 871, on the death of Einion, Bishop of Menevia,
Hubert, a Saxon, was intruded upon the throne of S.
David, and again a Lambert, consecrated by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, in 874, unless, as Haddan and
Stubbs suppose, Lambert and Hubert are identical, in
which case the delay in consecration was probably due to
the resistance of the clergy to having an alien forced on
them. At the same time another Welsh see was filled with
bishops consecrated at Canterbury, Llandaff, to which first
Cymelliauc and then Lliliau were ordained.
According to the book of Llandaff, some bishops of that
see and also some of S. David's were consecrated by the
1 "The Age of the Saints," Truro, 1893.
*-
Ij,,_ _ ^
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 5 1
Archbishops of Canterbury at the close of the tenth cen-
tury ; but the statements are in a condition of such hopeless
inconsistency, that it is advisable to reject them.
In its struggle for independence the archiepiscopal see
of S. David's claimed its rights as derived from Jerusalem,
and the story was invented that S. David had been con-
secrated and given supremacy over the British Church by
the Patriarch and successor of S. James of Jerusalem. By
this assumption the see of S. David pitted S. James against
S. Peter. But although it is possible that S. David may have
visited Jerusalem, it is not probable that he was there con-
secrated. It was not till the Norman conquest of Wales
that the independence of the Welsh Church came to an end.
Let us look now for a moment at the Celtic Church
in Brittany. This, as we have seen, was intimately re-
lated to that of Wales. S. Sampson, abbot and bishop-
chieftain of Dol, was a man partly of Welsh, partly of
(\.rmorican descent, but of wholly Welsh education.
In Brittany there was no territorial Episcopacy ; the bishop
or abbot was head in ecclesiastical matters of the tribe or
clan to which he belonged.
The trace of this remained till late in the different con-
stitutions of the bishoprics which were purely British and
those which were Gallo-Frank. In the former the pre-
lates were sovereign chiefs within their episcopal cities,
independent of the political chiefs, kings, and dukes.
This was because the founders had been granted these
lands on which to establish their ecclesiastical colonies,
and they continued to enjoy the privilege, which was con-
sonant with Celtic ideas.
When Latin ideas began to prevail, then the tribal
property became territorial, both among lay chiefs and
among ecclesiastical chiefs, and the diocesan organisation
of Brittany began to assume shape.
-*
►J<
52
Lives of the Saitifs.
In Brittany proper there were bishops at Aleth, Dol,
Ledn, Treguier, these in Domnonia. Cornouaille was
ruled by a bishop, whose see was sometimes at Quimper.
Vannes belonged off and on to Brittany, and especially to
Cornouaille, according as Breton or Frank influence
prevailed. The Breton clergy and bishops were wholly
independent of the Franco-Gallic Church; and the arch-
diocese of Tours could only assert a claim on the grounds
of a pretended consecration of S. Corentin by S. Martin.
Nantes and Rennes bowed before the crozier of Tours,
but the other sees stubbornly refused allegiance.
In 846 a very able man, Nominee, of whose origin we
know little, succeeded in becoming duke and then king over
all Brittany. He resolved on wresting his country from its
loose allegiance to the Frank crown, and at the same time
on putting an end to the claims advanced by the Arch-
l;ishop of Tours to jurisdiction over the Armorican bishops.
He constituted bishoprics at S. Brieuc and S. Rabutual,
and revived that of Dol, and endeavoured to elevate Dol
into an archiepiscopal see for all Brittany. By this he
separated the Breton from the Frank Church, or to be
more exact, maintained its independence, which it con-
tinued to assert for another three hundred years. All the
attempts made by Popes Nicolas I., John XII. and XIII.,
and Leo IX. to oblige the Archbishop of Dol to submit
to the Latin Church and acknowledge the Archbishop of
Tours were as ineffectual as were the previous denuncia-
tions of the Councils of Toul and Rheims in 859 and
1049. It was not till Gregory VII. occupied the throne
that this schismatical or independent province could be
reduced to obedience, and not till 11 72 that the arch-
Ijishopric of Dol submitted to become a suffragan see.
As early as 566, in a Council held at Tours, a canon
had been launched against the Celtic clergy, forbidding
*-
-*
* —
The Celtic Church audits Saints. 53
" the consecration of any bishops in Armorica, whether
they be Britons or Romans (that is to say, Gauls), without
the consent of the metropoHtan or his co-provincials, under
penalty of exclusion from the communion of the other
bishops, till next Synod." This shows that in the sixth
century the usage in Brittany was much as it was in Ire-
land, Wales, and Scotland, for bishops to be consecrated
in large numbers, and regardless of their having any sees.
It was doubtless during the struggle to uphold the
jurisdiction of Dol after 846 that the legend of Sampson
of Dol having received the pall was invented.
We will now take a brief glance at Scotland.
In North Britain the Saxon kingdom of Bernicia ex-
tended to the Firth of Forth, but the only settled bishop-
rics were those of Lindisfarne and Witherne, the latter of
English foundation, and entirely antagonistic to Celtic
peculiarities. Lindisfarne was captured for the Roman
party by Wilfred from the Celtic Bishop Colman, and the
monasteries were ravaged by the Northmen. Conse-
quently the National Church in North Britain rapidly
became one in complexion and character with the Latin-
ized Church of Northumbria, and the only possible
representatives of the earlier foundation were the Culdees,
Cultores Dei, anchorites or soUtaries, who kept up some
of the peculiarities of the Celtic Church.
At lona a schism had taken place in 704, and rival
abbots co-existed there till 772, each at the head of a party
of monks, one set observing the Celtic Easter, the other the
Roman Paschal computation, and butting with their vari-
ously tonsured heads at each other in angry controversy.
But on the death of the Abbot Suibhne the conformity of
the whole monastery of lona to the Latin rule was estab-
lished. National customs, however, died hard. When
S. Margaret, a Saxon princess, with ingrained Latin pro-
^ _ >J<
clivities, married King Malcolm III., in 1069, she supposed
it was her mission to extinguish the last embers of inde-
pendence in the Scottish Church. She laboured against
four customs that still prevailed : —
1. The commencement of Lent on the first Monday in
Lent instead of on Ash Wednesday — a custom that prevails
at Milan to the present day.
2. The non- reception of the Eucharist on Easter Day.
In this particular, Celtic custom has prevailed in the
Latin Church, where at present the Easter communion is
made on Maundy Thursday uistead of on the Feast of the
Resurrection.
3. Labour on the Lord's Day — a manifest abuse.
4. Strange, that is to say, Celtic, customs at Mass. In
fact the old Celtic liturgies of Galilean origin, and belong-
ing to the Ephesine or Milanese family, and not to the
Roman, were in use still. S. Margaret's biographer informs
us that " In some places among the Scots there were
persons who, contrary to the custom of the whole Church,
had been accustomed to celebrate Masses by some bar-
barous rite, which the Queen, kindled with God's zeal(!!),
so laboured to destroy and bring to naught, that thence-
forth there appeared no one in the whole race of the Scots
who dared to do such a thing."
It was due far more to her zeal in thus suppressing
independent usages in the Church than to her real or
supposed virtues, that she has obtained canonisation at
Rome. What this " barbarous rite " was we shall see
somewhat later.
But although S. Margaret may have secured open sub-
mission, she could not completely extinguish the lingering
love of and adhesion to the traditions of the Fathers. Fifty
years later, in the reign of King David, we learn from the
Chronicle of the Picts and Scots that the Culdees, " in a
*-
-*
^ __
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 55
corner of their Church, which was very small, were wont to
celebrate their own office after their own fashion."
This was the final spark, and it went out. In Scotland
accordingly " the old Celtic Church came to an end, leaving
no vestiges behind it, save here and there the roofless walls
of what had once been a church, and the numerous old bury-
ing-grounds, to which the people still cling with tenacity,
and where occasionally an ancient Celtic cross tells of its
former state." ^ — " Thus ended the struggle for indepen-
dence, after it had continued for more than a century and
a half. Wales, at the beginning, was the head of a great
and powerful Celtic confederacy ; at the end, it was almost
alone. A party in Hy (lona), and, perhaps, also the
Breton clergy, remained faithful to the last to the cause of
Celtic independence, but Wales had no other allies. The
Church of Ireland had so entirely turned against it that
by its canons it had put restrictions upon the ministrations
of such clergy as came from Britain, and had condemned
their churches for separating from the Roman customs and
from the unity of Christendom. The prolongation of the
struggle only completed the isolation of Wales ; and though
by its submission to Rome it again entered nominally into
fellowship with the rest of Western Christendom, it was long
separated in feeling from the English Church and the
churches of the Continent, and it never quite regained the
old connexion with its Celtic brethren. It had lost alike
its headship and its colonies." ^
But it lost more than this ; it was by degrees deprived
of its native vigour and independent genius ; and although
when the Norman conquest of Wales took place the clergy
were all Welsh, yet the constitution had become stereotyped
into the approved diocesan, territorial shape, and had ceased
1 Skene, "Celtic Scotland," vol. ii. p. 417.
2 Newell, " History of the Welsh Church," p. 133.
^ __ — *
*-
-*
56
Lives of the Saints.
to be tribal. Moreover, the old Celtic monastic institutions,
in which the religious activities of the British had been
focused, had fallen into decay. Then came the Norman
invasion under Robert Fitzhamon, 1091, and the subjuga-
tion of the south of Wales, which was speedily studded with
strongholds, and the iron hand of the Norman thenceforth
held the people down. On the death of Griffri, Bishop of
S. David's, the clergy elected Daniel, son of a [ former
bishop, Sulien, to the vacant see; but King Henry I. put
him aside "against the will and in contempt of all the
scholars of the Britons," and thrust upon them Bernard,
a Norman, not even at the time in priest's orders, who was
required to make formal profession of canonical obedience
to the see of Canterbury, in order to bring the Welsh
Church completely under Norman and Roman control.
This is, perhaps, one of the grossest cases of royal inter-
ference with the canonical rights of the Church that is on
record, at least in England. The prelate imposed on a
diocese, unanimous in refusal, by the mere will of a king,
was pitchforked into priestly and episcopal orders in one
day.
Already in 1092, Hervey, a Norman, but of Breton
parentage, had been forced on the see of Bangor ; the see
of S. Asaph had been subjected to the same violence;
another Norman, Urban, had been imposed on Llandaff.
Hervey maintained his position by force of arms only,
actually fighting against the sheep of his pasture at the
head of a band of soldiers. At last the outraged Cymry
could endure this no longer ; they rose and expelled him
in 1 107. Pope Pascal's sympathy was with him, regard-
ing him as a martyr to the cause of Roman supremacy.
He was consoled with the see of Ely.
Thenceforth every bishopric was filled with nominees of
the Norman and Angevin kings, men who knew nothing of
*-
-*
the language and customs of the Welsh people ; elections by
the Chapters, if in favour of native candidates, were ignored
or quashed; and the lands of the Church were ruthlessly
torn away from the tribes whose clergy they had supported
to enrich Norman and English abbeys. Thenceforth no
Welshman was eligible for a see or an abbacy, even at last
for a parochial cure. " The policy of the English Govern-
ment was to degrade the Welsh, and not to encourage the
ordination of any Welshman, as none were considered
worthy of a place of trust. So arose an alien Church, sup-
ported by alien clergy ; and not the least of the feelings
of the Welsh against the Church was that a body of men
who were supported by Wales, and who ought to be, before
all things, Welsh, were all foreigners, and no Welshman
could be legally admitted a member of the body. Orders
were to the Welsh a closed door. . . . The clergy, though
not Welsh, became more and more tolerant of the Welsh,
and while in name Latin, with them local ideas largely
prevailed. The Celtic customs still lived in spite of the
fact that nominally they were superseded by the Latin." ^
One more effort to obtain a semblance of independence
was made later, in 1 198-1203. The Norman bishop,
Peter de Leia, was dead, and the Chapter nominated for
the royal sanction Gerald de Barri and three others.
Gerald was grandson of Nest, daughter of Rhys, king of
Deheubarth, the most beautiful woman of her age, and he
inherited from her personal beauty and an intense love
for Wales and the Welsh. Precisely for the reason that
he was Welsh by birth and partly Welsh by lineage he was
unacceptable to the King and the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. John, Richard being dead, refused to ratify the
election of the Chapter, and Gerald appealed to Rome, but in
vain; the King and Archbishop could bring more from their
1 Bund, "The Celtic Church in Wales," p. 499.
->.'i
*-
58
Lives of the Saints.
pockets in bribes than the Archdeacon of Brecon. For
five years Gerald contested the matter, passing between
Wales and Rome, and only abandoned the struggle when
he found that his purse could no longer sustain it. When
he yielded, from that day the see of S. David's was forced
to bow under the sypremacy of Canterbury. " Many and
great wars," said the Prince of Powys, " have our Welsh-
men waged with England, but none so great and fierce as
his who fought the King and the Archbishop, and withstood
the might of the whole clergy and people of England, for
the honour of Wales."
But, indeed, it was a hopeless struggle ; for the Pope was
as little likely to relish the independence of S. David's, as
the King of England and the successor of S Augustine at
Canterbury.
Giraldus describes to us the sort of men who were sent
to fatten on the ecclesiastical benefices of the Welsh. The
Norman bishops forced on the reluctant Church came there,
pasci lion pascere, to stuff themselves, and not to pasture
the flock. Amongst them was one who always promoted
the most incapable among his relatives, alleging that the
capable ones could get along without his aid, but the others
would starve. He tells how a priest brought to his dio-
cesan a hundred eggs, " ova," but by slip of the tongue said
"oves," sheep, whereupon the prelate forced the man to
be as good as his word and furnish him with a hundred
sheep. And, indeed, the Norman and English clergy thrust
into the parishes were not only ignorant of Welsh, but also
of Latin. One preaching on S. Barnabas' Day, spoke of
his virtue and repentance, and of how in his early life he
was a robber, supposing him to be Barabbas. Another,
on the Feast of S. John before the Latin Gate, informed
his congregation that he was the man who had brought
Latin into Britain, for anle was " first," poriam was " he
*-
-*
*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 59
brought," Latinam, " the Latin tongue," — and " into Eng-
land or Britain " was to be understood. He tells how the
Norman bishops alienated the lands to members of their
families, how they lived as absentees from their dioceses,
committing the temporal cares, that is, the extortion of money,
to unprincipled officials, and how hungry and disreputable
English adventurers trooped into Wales to snap up the
ecclesiastical benefices as fast as they fell vacant. The
Norman invaders plundered the parishes to enrich abbeys
they had founded, and introduced a host of foreign monks,
disreputable, indolent, and vicious. Giraldus tells stories
of their conduct, how they were sent out to live in cells
singly, where they at once took to them female companions.
" Go back to my abbey ! " said a monk to friendly advice ;
" I had rather go to hell." Gerald tells of one whose
conduct was so scandalous that the castellan of Milford
threw him into prison, and his " amica " was set in the pil-
lory. But beside their incontinence, of which, says Gerald,
melius est silere quam loqni, their drunkenness and gluttony
were proverbial, and they were perfectly unscrupulous as
to the way in which they extended their possessions — by
moving landmarks at night, by cajoling dying persons
to make bequests, and, he might have added, by forging
donations of estates.
It was the policy of the crown and the barons to im-
poverish the Church, lest the Welsh spirit should gather
head in the parish churches. They therefore gave away
great tithes and glebe to the monasteries, some in Nor-
mandy, some in England. When the Cistercian and other
abbeys were founded in Wales they were filled with men
of foreign extraction, and proved English fortresses in the
midst of the land. These monasteries were sponges suck-
ing in the endowments of the Church. Let us take an
instance or two. Cynwyl Gaio has annexed to it Llansawyl,
1^ —q^
* —
6o Lives of the Saints.
a daughter church. The area of the parish is 36,437 acres,
and is something Hke fifteen miles across. There must be
a curate kept, and for vicar and curate the gross receipts
were ^^274, now, at reduced value, ^180. Formerly there
were some eight churches or chapels, now only two. Or
again, Cynwyl Elvet and Abernant have the acreage of
19,560, and there are two churches, two clergy to be main-
tained, and the value is, gross, ^^^224, actually under ^150.
The Welsh in the Middle Ages had to support an alien
clergy, alien monks, as well as alien feudal lords. So
entirely was the Welsh Church expropriated for the benefit
of the English, that even so late as the reigns of the Lan-
castrian Henrys no Welshman might be educated so as to
qualify him to hold an ecclesiastical benefice, and so com-
pletely trodden under and despised were the Welsh people,
that an Englishman who married a Welshwoman lost all
his rights as a freeborn Englishman. These atrocious
laws were only in part repealed under the Tudor sovereigns.
One might have anticipated that when a Welshman came
to the throne of England he would have done something
to give to his native land and the people of his fathers
some of that for which they had aspired for centuries. It
was not so. The policy of Henry VIII. was to complete
the union of England and Wales, politically and ecclesi-
astically. The confiscation of the property of the monastic
houses led to no improvement whatever. The monks did
hold services in the numerous chapels on their lands ; but
now the land that was confiscated was given to zealous
servants of the king among the laity, and the thousands of
chapels fell into ruin, and the parochial clergy remained in
indigence.
The wrong done to the sensitive, religious-minded Welsh
people sunk deep into their hearts, and a feeling of resent-
ment was nurtured that was destined to last for long.
^ _ *
*— — *
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 6 1
It is significant to note how entirely the Welsh writers,
the poets of the Middle Ages, held themselves aloof from
the Church ; they wrote as though uninfluenced by Chris-
tianity, and this points to the simmering bitterness that
filled every native heart. It would seem as though it were
a law of God that when a great wrong has been done it
should be redressed, and reprisals taken on the offender at
some time by the representative of those who had been
outraged.
It is surely remarkable that when the Norman Angevin
house died [out in its male representatives, and when a
Welshman ascended the throne, that the day of retribution
should dawn. By the sword of the Norman the Papacy
had mown down the national Christianity of the Celtic race,
and with the Welsh Henry Tudor, second of that house,
the sword was turned to drive the Papacy for ever out of
domination over the hearts and consciences of Welsh, and
Scots, and Englishmen.
In Ireland something of the same course had been
pursued. The see of Dublin, founded in 1040, alone
obeyed Rome, and that was founded by the Danes, and
was totally distinct from the Irish Church. It looked to
Canterbury, not to Armagh. The other Danish settle-
ments followed suit, and planted sees at Waterford and
Limerick under Roman obedience. S. Malachy, steeped
in Latin notions, contrived the capture of Armagh, but it
was not till after the conquest of Ireland by Strongbow in
1170-72 that the Irish Church was reduced to Roman
conformity. The Papacy had long resented the inde-
pendence of this Church, and had coveted the opportunity
for its subjugation. It needed a ready and unscrupulous
servant. Pope Hadrian IV. found the man he wanted in
Henry II. He declared that Ireland and all islands con-
verted to Christianity belonged to the special jurisdiction
^ _^
62 Lives of the Saints.
of S. Peter, and by virtue of this power he granted Ireland
to Henry II. of England. The tribute of Peter's pence
from the conquered island was to be his reward. Henry
was authorised " to enter the island, to subject its people
to obedience of laws, to eradicate the seeds of vice, and
also to make every house pay an annual tribute of one
penny to the blessed Peter, and preserve the rights of the
Church of that land whole and entire."
Thus was a free, vigorous, intelligent people sacrificed
for a penny a household, to be trampled on, murdered,
enslaved by Norman adventurers. The bull was granted
in 1 155. Thenceforth, as Gerald de Barri, who accom-
panied the invaders, writes, "The clergy (in Ireland) were
reduced to beggary; the cathedral churches mourned,
having been plundered by the adventurers of the lands and
ample estates which had been formerly granted to them
faithfully and devoutly. And thus," adds Gerald, " the
exalting of the Church has been fruitful in its spoliation
and plundering." Of the ministers of the Papal See, the
Anglo-Norman conquerors, he says — and they were many
of them his own relatives — " This new and bloody con-
quest has been defiled by an enormous effusion of blood,
and the slaughter of a Christian people."
The sense of wrong done, and rankling for so many
centuries in Celtic hearts, produced conflicting results
eventually. In Wales the population was entirely in-
different to the Reformation. It had been indifferent to
the Papalised Church because manned by aliens ; it was
as indifferent to the Reformed Church, because that was
as unnational as before. They regarded the occupants of
the thrones of S. David, S. Teilo, and S. Asaph, as also
those of the churches everywhere founded and named after
Celtic saints, as aliens ; and when the opportunity came, in
Nonconformity, sought to found a religion for themselves on
^-
The Celtic Church and its Saints.
63
-*
their own lines, in complete independence, and in undying
hostility to the Established Church.
In Ireland, on the other hand, with characteristic wrong-
headedness, the Irish people, because the Reformed Church
occupied the old benefices, lived on the old endowments,
held the cathedrals and parochial churches, revolted in
favour of that Church which had done to Ireland the
cruellest wrong that could have been inflicted, by selling it
into the hand of the English king at a penny a household.
In Wales the Church had been plundered by the
Normans ; great numbers of the benefices had been re-
duced to vicarages, that the great tithes might go to
abbeys ; but the monks did strive to do their duty by the
people. The country was covered with little chapels in
every hamlet, at no great distance from one another, in
which the Word of God was preached, and souls were
ministered to. But with the Reformation the revenues of
the monasteries were confiscated, and they were destroyed.
Thenceforth the parochial clergy were left in comparative
poverty, with large parishes, a population very scattered,
and wholly unable to cope with the spiritual needs of
their people, however desirous they might be of doing so.
The Welsh national and ecclesiastical organisations were
never allowed free development. That which was foreign
to the genius of the people was forced upon them. The
tribal system is killed entirely ; but they have attempted
in Nonconformity to set up what is a spontaneous and
living expression of their aspirations and needs.
And to a century of Nonconformity Wales owes more
than to eight centuries of the Church. Welsh Noncon-
formity has transformed and regenerated Wales. It has
cultivated both the spiritual and the intellectual powers of
the people to a most remarkable degree. The Welsh peasant
of to-day is a head taller, intellectually, than the English
*-
■*
^ — . lj<
64 Lives of the Saints.
labourer. He takes his stand beside the Scotchman.
The Nonconformist ministry has produced men of first-
rate abihty and true leaders of men; not only so, but
students passionately devoted to learning. In the century
of its existence Nonconformity has passed through and
out of the initial stage of an emotional religion. At first
it was the appeal to the religious hunger of the unsatisfied
soul. But all emotional religion is dangerous, as conducive
to the substitution of feeling for moral obedience. Non-
conformity in Wales has gone out of this stage, and is
now cultivating the reasoning faculties of its members.
The rock ahead on which it may split is Rationalism. It
may, in its zeal for the cultivation of thought, lose its
power over the spiritual part of man ; and here it is that
there is a hope for the Church. That always appeals to
the devotional instincts of the soul, and when Noncon-
formity ceases to do that, then the Church will recover her
old grasp on the Welsh people. But that will only be
when the Apostolic spirit is revived in her, and when
place-hunting, astuteness in controversy and in manipu-
lating promotions and clutching at places, are not prime
considerations, but rather the turning the hearts of the
disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just. At Pumsaint, in
Caermarthen, sleep the five sons of Cynyr, of the race of
Cunedda, under a rock in the old Roman gold-mines of
Gogofau. They sleep a magic sleep, till the Spirit of God
breathes again over the Church in Wales, and an apostle
sits on the seat of S. David. Four times have they turned
their stone pillow, and into all four sides have their heads
worn holes. They have cast aside this bolster and have
taken another. They have not as yet sat up and begun
to speak.
In conclusion, a few words must be added on certain
peculiarities that characterised the Celtic saints.
*
\o
<u
a,
T/ie Celtic Chtirck and its Saints. 65
It has been said that the Church among the Celts
passed through stages of development. The first stage
was that in which the professed Christians lived together
as a saintly tribe, subject to the saint who was their
chieftain. The second stage was that of the great mon-
astic foundations. This was one where women, and such
as were not monks, were turned out of the caer in which
the religious lived. The remains of one such monastic
settlement on a small scale is seen in Skellig Michael, in
the county of Kerry. Each monk occupied a small stone
bee-hive hut, and they had little rectangular oratories.
This was a period in which learning was in great repute,
and to each monastery was attached a school. The know-
ledge of Greek was widely prosecuted, and the Latin authors
were extensively read. " The Irish schools," says Professor
Stokes — and the same may be said of the Welsh — " de-
veloped themselves in accordance with their own genius.
They had one pre-eminent quality, distinguishing them
from too many of their descendants — they pursued learning
for its own sake. They did not require to be bribed by
prizes and scholarships. They conceived, and rightly con-
ceived, that learning was its own reward. The schools
had moderate landed endowments, and their teaching was
apparently free to all, or, at any rate, imparted at a very
low charge. Bede tells us that the Irish professors were
in the habit of receiving English pupils, educating, feeding,
and supplying them with books, without making any
charge at all. They lived under very simple conditions
of society. They had no solid halls or buildings ; a few
wattled huts constituted their college. They taught and
studied in the open air, just as in the hedge schools of
former days which Carleton depicts. Yet they had an
organised system. They had usually a chief or senior
lecturer. They had professors of law, of poetry, of history,
VOL. XVI. E
^ ,
*-
66
Lives of the Saints.
->**
and of other branches of education. They had a steward,
who managed the temporal affairs of the institution." ^
It was probably from the East, through that entrancing,
soul-moving work, the " Lives of the Fathers of the Desert,"
that asceticism found its way into the Celtic Church, and
at once, with characteristic enthusiasm, the Celtic hermit
carried it to extravagance. We have indeed only the late
biographies of the Celtic saints, and we do not know to
what extent the mediaeval writers exaggerated the austerities
of the ancient ascetics, but their customs were so odd that
we can hardly attribute them to mere invention.
S. Judicael, Ave are told, delighted in standing stark
naked to his neck in ice-cold water whilst recitino; the
psalter; Iltyd did the same at midnight, remaining in the
water till he had repeated the Lord's Prayer thrice ; S.
Fiech took with him five cakes into solitude, whereon to
subsist during Lent, and at Easter reappeared with one
unconsumed. Their austerities bordered on grotesqueness.
One would sleep among corpses, and suspend himself on
the points of sickles placed under his armpits ; another
would keep a stone in his mouth throughout Lent ; and a
female saint, named Ita, allowed a stag-beetle to gnaw out
her side. S. Winwaloe slept on nut-shells, and put stones
for his pillow. But these biographies were composed by
Latin monks, alien in nationality, out of traditional tales and
ballads, many centuries after the death of those of whom
they wrote; and it would appear as though the natives,
Welsh, and above all Irish, delighted in palming off on
their interrogators any nonsense that their lively imaginations
could conjure up. It is amusing, among other things, to
note how some of the real facts puzzled the writers, and
how they endeavoured to alter them in accordance with
their Latin prejudices.
• 1 Stokes, " Ireland and the Celtic Church," p. 229.
«•-
-*
*-
'^
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 67
A peculiar custom in the Celtic Church was that of
dedication of a church or ecclesiastical colony. According
to the Roman usage every church must be a shrine over a
relic, and the church takes its title from the relic preserved
in it. The Celtic Church had its martyria, but these were
exceptional. In it, it was customary for a holy man or
woman who desired to found a llan, to go to the spot and
continue there in prayer and fasting for forty days and
nights ; during all that time it was incumbent on him to
eat nothing save a morsel of bread and an egg, and to
drink only milk and water, and that once in the day. The
Sundays were excepted. This done, the place was regarded
as consecrated for ever. The church thenceforth bore the
foundet^s name, and it may be pretty certainly, though not
always, concluded that where a church bears the title of a
Celtic saint, if of early foundation, it was actually conse-
crated by that person in the manner described. This
was not always the case ; at a later period churches estab-
lished under direct rule of a famous abbey, either of
S. Teilo or S. David, would be called S. Teilo's or S.
David's church, not because actually founded by the saints,
but because erected by those who belonged to the original
establishment of Teilo or David, and were to be served
from the monasteries of these saints.
There was a third stage in the development of the
Church in Celtic countries, and that was when the secular
priests and the bishops were independent of the great
abbeys. Marriage was usual among them ; indeed, always
had been when under the rule of the ecclesiastical chief or
abbot. It appears from the Epistle of Gildas that the British
clergy in his day — the sixth century — did not profess celibacy,
and until 961 the marriage of the clergy was not only not
forbidden, but was recognised. A passage in the Dimetian
Code provides that a son of a priest born before his father's
*
^___ — »J«
68 Lives of the Sai?its.
ordination has no right to a share in his ecclesiastical
benefice, but that a son born afterwards would have a legal
claim thereto, because the first son, not belonging to the
sacred tribe, would obviously have no claim on tribal rights
to which his father had not been admitted at the time. In
the canons, said to have been made at a synod of SS.
Patrick, Auxilius, and Isserninus, the sixth regulates the
dress to be worn by the wives of the clergy.
Giraldus Cambrensis, in the twelfth century, was greatly
shocked. Benefices passed in many instances regularly
from father to son, and these even in the cathedral. The
sons of the canons married the canons' daughters, and the
cathedral had altogether the appearance of a happy family
party. He says that under the very shadow of the
cathedral nurses and cradles were to be seen. The Arch-
deacon of Bangor, an old man named Jordan, was married.
Giraldus, at the time administrator of the authority of the
Papal legate, reprimanded him. The archdeacon dis-
regarded the notice. Then Giraldus appealed to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, who sent him an admonition. On
receiving this the ai-chdeacon appears to have forgotten his
dignity, and to have launched into very unclerical language
at the expense of the archbishop. At length Giraldus got
the old man removed from his archdeaconry and prebend
and transferred to a less conspicuous position, whereupon
Giraldus seized on the vacant dignities for himself.
He draws a ludicrous picture of the parish priest jogging
to market, his good woman sitting before and he behind,
holding on with his arms about her waist.
But there was an abuse growing out of this, that of the
benefices becoming family property : Giraldus stayed a night
in one which belonged to six ecclesiastics of the same family.
A great deal more credit has been given to Augustine
and his mission for work done in the evangelisation of
-*
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 69
England than they deserve. Augustine's mission came
after the whole of Celtic Britain and Ireland, and a portion
of Caledonia, had believed, and that for centuries. It was
true that where Saxon and Angle arms prevailed, there the
native British Church had been swept out. But Augus-
tine's mission was a success for a brief period only, and
then met with discomfiture. Later on it obtained some
advantage among the Saxons of Kent and Wessex; but
Mercia and Northumbria were converted, not by these
Latin missionaries, but by the missionaries of the Celtic
Church in lona, and in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall the
primitive British Church lived on. It had a stronghold at
Glastonbury, which Ina, the Saxon, respected. In time,
owing to the persistency, the assurance, and the organisa-
tion of the Latin Church, it prevailed, but it reaped where
it had not sowed, and gathered where it had not strawed ; and
never was the saying more fully verified than in the Latinised
English Church, " One soweth, and another reapeth."
With respect to the liturgy of the Celtic Church,
whether in Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, we have a certain
amount of material by which we can understand what it
was as well as what it was not. The material has been
collected and published by Mr. Warren in his " Liturgy
and Ritual of the Celtic Church" (Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1 871), and it has also been critically investigated
by him. In what follows concerning this liturgy, I can
do no more than condense the amount of information
collected in that admirable treatise. But, in the first
place, except for the passing wave of Pelagianism, that was
allayed as speedily as it arose, there was no charge of
heresy that could be substantiated against the Church in
the British Isles. S. Hilary of Poitiers in 358 congratulated
the bishops of the British provinces on " their having
continued uncontaminated and uninjured by any contact
*-
-*
70 Lives of the Saints.
with the damnable heresy (of Arius)." Athanasius in 363
stated that the British Churches had signified to him by
letter that they adhered to the Nicene faith. S. Chrysostom
(386-398) declared that "even the British Isles had felt
the power of the Word, for there also churches and altars
had been erected. There also, as on the shores of the
Euxine or in the south, men might be heard discussing
points of Scripture, with differing voices but not with
differing belief, with varying tongues but not with varying
faith." S. Jerome (circa 400) asserted that " Britain in
common with Rome, Gaul, Africa, Persia, the East, and
India, adored one Christ, and observed one Rule of Faith."
Venantius Fortunatus (circa 580) testified to British ortho-
doxy in the sixth century. Even Wilfrid, imbued with a
malignant hatred of Celtic Christianity, did not venture to
deny its orthodoxy. When present in Rome, 680, at a
council of bishops held in anticipation of the (Ecumenical
Council of Constantinople in the same year, he asserted that
the true Catholic faith was held by the Irish, Scottish, and
British, as well as by his favoured Romanised Anglo-
Saxon Church. It had therefore been no vain boast of
S. Columbanus to Pope Boniface in 612, that his Church
was not schismatical nor heretical, but that it held the
Catholic faith in its integrity.
" Had it been otherwise, could British bishops have
been present certainly at the Council of Aries a.d. 314,
perhaps at Nice a.d. 325, probably at Sardica a.d. 347 ?
Could the conferences have taken place at Augustine's
Oak A.D. 603, and at Whitby a.d. 664, without at all
events far more serious questions having been raised than
the form of the tonsure, or the calculation of Easter ?
Would Wini, Bishop of Winchester, have associated two
British bishops with himself in the consecration of S. Chad
a.d. 664 ? Both direct testimony and indirect inference
The Celtic Chzirch and its Saints. 71
lead us to conclude with reference to the whole Celtic
Church what Montalembert allows with regard to primitive
Ireland, that it was ' profoundly and unchangeably Catholic
in doctrine, but separated from Rome in various points of
discipline and liturgy.' " ^
So far, then, seems established, that in doctrine the Celtic
Church in nothing differed from the Roman, Galilean, and
Eastern Churches. In the matter of Order, there can be
no doubt that there were bishops, priests, and deacons in
it, as elsewhere in the Catholic Church. The difference
was confined to this — that the jurisdiction was not neces-
sarily in the hands of bishops, but in those of the head of
the ecclesiastical tribe.
It was, however, rapidly assimilating its system to that
prevalent among the English, Franks, and among the Latin
races. The Celtic Church never believed that the sacred
commission could devolve save through the imposition of
hands and invocation of the Holy Ghost, by bishops
apostolically consecrated. What was peculiar in the
Celtic Church was that Episcopal consecration could be
conferred by a single bishop. In Ireland this custom still
obtained in the eleventh century, and was complained of
by S. Anselm, writing to the Irish king Tirlagh, in 1074,
and by Lanfranc, writing to King Muriardach, in iioo.
By a curious misconception of the canon of Aries, the
Celtic Church always consecrated three bishops at once,
but by a single ordaining bishop. There was also this
difference in the ordination of priests and deacons, that
in the Celtic Church their hands were anointed; and this
peculiarity found its way into the York Anglo-Saxon
Church, for it occurs in the Pontifical of Egbert (732-
766); it even penetrated to southern England, for it is
found in the Anglo-Saxon Ordinal of S. Dunstan.
1 Warren, p. 29.
*-
-*
72 Lives of the Saints.
There were other slight differences that need not detain
us. Let us now pass to the liturgy in use in the Celtic
Church and to the ritual attending it.
The Liturgy was intitled the Communion of the Altar
and also the Sacrifice, and the Welsh word for a priest,
offeirad, is derived from offcrrc, to offer, that is to say,
sacra offerre or offerre sacrificium. A peculiar feature
of the altar service was the multiplicity of Collects.
In the early Roman liturgy there was but one, and the
custom that now prevails of accumulating the Collects of
the day and season did not come into use in the Latin
Church till late. It was one of the charges made by
Agrestus against Columbanus that he recited several Col-
lects at Mass instead of only one. Not only was there
a reading of Epistle and Gospel, but also of a lesson
from the Old Testament ; but this indeed was a legacy
from the primitive Church, and traces of it still remain in
the Roman Missal.
It was customary to commemorate the departed.
Diptychs containing the names of the deceased were
brought to the celebrant, and their contents announced by
him during the offertory. Then ensued an anthem called
the " deprecatio," containing an enumeration of the names
of those departed saints for whose repose the prayers of the
congregation were requested, and of those by whose inter-
cession such prayers would be assisted. It is interesting
to note that the commemoration of the dead introduced
by the English Reformers into the prayer for all sorts and
conditions of men occupies precisely the place of the
Celtic " deprecatio," whereas in the Roman Mass the com-
memoration of the dead occupies quite a different position.
The prayer of consecration was said in an audible voice,
and contained the recitation of the Institution.
In the ancient Irish Church, after the Consecration, a
^ ^
hymn was sung, " Sancti venite," which called the faithful
to communion. This hymn, which has happily been pre-
served in the Bangor Antiphonary, and also in MS. at
S. Gall, and in the Stowe Missal, has been reintroduced
by the compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern, and is
now again familiar in the British Isles, " Draw nigh and
take the Body of the Lord."
The position occupied by the priest was before the
altar, that is to say, facing the east, and with his back to
the congregation. Special vestments were in use. S.
Bridget, we are told, " gave away to the poor the trans-
marine and foreign vestments of Bishop Condlaedh, of
glorious light, which he was accustomed to use when offer-
ing the Holy Mysteries at the altars, on the festivals of our
Lord and the vigils of the Apostles."
Among the special vestments of which we have proof
of existence are these: — i. The chasuble. This was
circular, with embroidered orphreys, and is so represented
in the eighth-century reliquary of S. Maedoc, and on the
Book of Deer, ninth century. 2. On the breast Celtic
bishops wore the rationale, a sort of breastplate like that
borne by Aaron and the High Priest under the Jewish
dispensation. It was made of gold or silver, studded with
precious stones. It continued in use in many places
during the Middle Ages — at Corvey, at Salzburg, and at
Chartres. A Pope is represented at Rheims on the south
door as wearing one.^ 3. Celtic bishops bore pastoral
staves, not crooked like those in use in the Middle Ages,
and in place of mitres had crowns on their heads.
S. Samson, about 557, dreamed that he saw "three
eminent bishops adorned with golden crowns standing
before him." The use of this crown in a modified form
continued in Anglo-Saxon times until the tenth century,
1 Bock, Ceschickte der Liturgischen Gewdnder (fiovm, 1859), vol. i. p. 38a.
-*
;p ^
74 Lives of the Saints.
when representations of the mitre begin to appear, low
and two horned, and as such it is seen on the Culbinsgaith
stone, Shetland, where also the bishops are shown with
crooked staves.
The colours in use seem to have been purple for
ordinary Sundays, and white for festivals. Gildas refers to
the custom of covering altars in British churches with
purple palls. The three choirs of saints which appeared
to S. Brendan were clad in vestments of the most shining
purple jacinth. S. Cuthbert was buried in a purple
dalmatic, 687. It will be remembered how largely purple
enters into the earliest extant specimens of Celtic illumina-
tion, and Bede alludes to the ease with which a red or
purple dye could be obtained from shells on the Irish
coasts, and this explains the preponderating ecclesiastical
use of this colour.^
A very singular usage existed at lona of two or more
priests being ordinarily united in the Eucharistic act ol
consecration ; to consecrate singly was held to be the
prerogative of bishops, or of individual priests specially
empowered to so consecrate on account of their eminence
or sanctity.
Adamnan records how " on one occasion a stranger from
the province of Munster, who, through humility, concealed
the fact that he was a bishop, was invited, on the next
Sunday, by Columba to join with him in consecrating the
Body of Christ, that as two priests they might break the
bread of the Lord together. Columba, on going to the
altar, discovered his rank, and thus addressed him : ' Christ
bless thee, brother ; consecrate alone as a bishop ; now we
know that thou art of Episcopal rank. Why hast thou
1 The general use of red in the Sarum order, and its traditional employment in
England to this day as the ordinary Sunday colour, points to this early custom.
Red and purple were indiscriminate colours at one time.
*
endeavoured to disguise thyself so long, and to prevent our
giving thee the honour due to thee ? ' "
No similar practice existed in any other country, or at
any other time ; in fact, something exactly opposed to it
existed in an obsolete rule of the Latin Church, that when
a bishop celebrated, the priests present should unite with
him in the words and acts of consecration. Contrary to
the usage of the Latin Church, the Celtic Church
employed unleavened bread. Gildas makes this one of his
charges against it. " The Britons, opposed to all the world,
hostile to Roman usages, not only in the Mass, but even
in the tonsure, sheltering themselves under the shadow of
the Jews." At S. Gall, an Irish monastery in Switzerland,
unleavened bread was used. It was from the Celtic Church
that the Anglo-Saxons adopted it. The Roman Church
did not abandon leavened bread till the tenth century.
It is hardly necessary to add that in the Celtic Church
communion was in both kinds.
There is no trace of a vernacular liturgy. Evidently
that in employ was one derived from Gaul, and no attempt
was made to translate it; but sermons were delivered in
the tongue understood by the people, and the Gospel and
Epistle were doubtless translated, and possibly there were
vernacular hymns. There certainly was singing, and we
are told that when S. Columba chanted his voice could be
heard a mile away.
It was customary in the Irish and British Churches to
distribute the Eulogise, blessed, but not consecrated bread,
at the conclusion of the liturgy; and this usage once general,
except in the Roman Church, continues to the present day
in the Greek and Russian, as also in the Galilean Church,
where the visitors to, let us say, Notre Dame at Paris, on
a festival, will be brought the pain bmit.
Adamnan says that in S. Cainech's monastery at Aghaboe
^ ^ *
^ — _ ^
76 Lives of the Saints.
there was a table in the refectory on which the Eulogise
were cut up for distribution. The same practice existed at
lona. At Lindisfarne, in S. Cuthbert's time, the blessed
bread was distributed after Mass.
The Eucharist was not celebrated daily, but on Sundays
and Saints' days ; very early "in the morning " by S.
Columbanus, by S. Gall "at daybreak," by S. Brendan
" in the very early morning," and an early Mass was
ordered in the continental Irish monasteries.
Confession was strongly urged, but it was made in
public before priesi and congregation, and it was perhaps
due to this publicity that the custom of making confession
had died out in Ireland, as S. Bernard asserts, in the
twelfth century. In the Penitential of Cummine it is plainly
taught that confession before priest and people was optional,
" confession to God alone, if there be need for it, is allow-
able." Absolution was not given, in contradistinction to
Roman practice, until the penitent had fulfilled his penance,
and then only by the priest who had imposed it. Bede
tells the story of a youth who made confession to a priest,
and on hearing the penance imposed complained of it
because it was for an indefinite time, and absolution was
deferred until the priest should see him again. In the
meantime the priest died, and the youth continued to
comply with the conditions of penance for the rest of his
life. The English reformed usage of making a general
confession before communion, and a general absolution
being pronounced, is a return to Celtic usage, in so far as
that both are public.
The remains of the Celtic liturgy are not numerous.
There is a Cornish fragment from S. Germans, once a
cathedral, and it is a Mass of S. German. It is of the
ninth century, and was composed after the Cornish Church
had fallen under Anglo-Saxon influence. A Scottish frag-
^ . _ ^
^. *
Tke Celtic Church and its Saints. yj
ment has been found within a blank page of the Book of
Deer, sufficient to show that the Scoto-Pictish liturgy of
the Columban Church belonged to the " Ephesine," and
not to the " Petrine," family of liturgies.
Some Irish fragments bearing the same testimony are
found in the Books of Dimma (seventh century) and
Moling (end of the seventh century). The Book of
Armagh contains another; further and larger fragments
have been discovered at S. Gall and at Basle. The anti-
phonary of Bangor not only contains the hymn " Sancti
venite," but a creed that differs in wording from all other
forms known to exist, and which had a liturgical position
found only in the Mozarabic rite.
But the most complete is the Stowe Missal, that ori-
ginally belonged to some church in Munster, and was
carried to Ratisbon about 1130, but has been recovered.
This Missal does not indeed belong to the Celtic Church
before it had passed under Latinising influence. It shows
us that the Roman Canon had been introduced into at least
partial use in Ireland as early as the ninth century ; but it
retains certain portions of the earlier national liturgy, and
this is interwoven with the new introduction. Nor is it
only the Roman which is present in this interesting com-
posite Mass ; there are passages in it from Ambrosian,
Gallican, and Mozarabic rites, suggestive of that period
of diversity when, as Tirechan wrote in the eighth century,
" There were holy priests and few bishops " — in the period
between 572 and 666 — "one hundred in number. . . .
They had different rules and masses, and different tonsures
— and a different Paschal festival." And the period preced-
ing this, he says, from 534 to 5 72, " Was one when there were
few bishops and many priests, in number three hundred.
They had one head, one Lord; they had different masses and
different rules. And they had received a Mass from Bishop
^ — — — —^— ^
78 Lives of the Saints.
David, and Gildas, and Ca(docus) the Britons." But in the
first age, from about 440 to 534, he says, "They were all
bishops, famous and holy, and full of the Holy Ghost, 350
in number, founders of churches. They had one head,
Christ ; and one chief, Patrick ; they had one mass, one
celebration, and one tonsure."
Such, then, was the Celtic Church in Faith, Order, and
method of Worship — a Church full of apostolic zeal, fired
with missionary fervour.
When the Saxon was master of the land he did not
relish to have to pay his devotions in a church dedicated
to a saint of the subjugated and hated race; he could not
invoke him, for he supposed that the good old Celtic saint
hated him, and would fight against him in heaven. He
was therefore desirous of having his church re-dedicated,
if not to one of his own race, at all events to one of the
Roman kalendar. And he was warmly supported by the
prelates, who also detested and denounced the ancient
British Church as schismatical and heretical. The result
was that English and Norman bishops swept away the
names of the founders wherever they could. Only rarely
was the remembrance of the old saint tough enough in the
hearts of the people to resist the change. In Devon the
whole of the south-east was purged in this manner. But
in North Devon a good many of the ancient founders
held their own. S. Brendan sheltered under Exmoor ; S.
Petroc at Anstey ; Thelbridge, dedicated to S. David, was
tolerated because David had been canonised by Rome;
Lan Kea was re-dedicated to S. Paul, but is still Land Key ;
Swimbridge retained an altar to S. Bridget ; Braunton
would not give up S. Brynach. Two churches of S. Elen
were spared, Parracombe and Abbotsham, because the
wife of Macsen Wledig was mistaken for the mother of
Constantine. Perhaps as a badge of subjection, Heanton
* •{,
* 15<
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 79
Punshcardon was dedicated to S. Augustine, yet this may
have been to the saint of Hippo. Tlie Saxon Werbrugh was
carried to Warbstow, on the confines of Cornwall. S. Curig
had everywhere to give way for S. Cyriacus, a boy martyr
of Tarsus ; and S. Julitta or Gwenn, the mother of S.
Padarn, disappeared behind Julitta, the mother of Cyriacus.
S. Gwynws became S. Genes, the commedian ; and S. Cyby
was disguised as S. Cuthbert. S. Hilary of Poitiers replaced
both S. Elian and S. Teilo. Where the devotion to the
old saint was too strong to be suppressed at once, an ap-
proved kalendar saint was coupled with him, in hopes that in
time he would smother the ancient Celt. Thus S. Stephen
was joined with S. Mawgan at Mawnan, S. Dunstan with
S. Manaccus at Lanlivery, and at Lanreath ; S. Non would
have been changed into S. Mary if the mediaeval church
authorities could have induced the parishioners of Altarnon
to accept the change. Yet this substitution was not always
due to ecclesiastical prejudice. It arose very much from
the fact that the local saint was so local, and so devoid of
a legend, that the bishop, when reconsecrating the rebuilt
church, deemed it expedient to supplant him by some one
whose story was known. In 1330 Bishop Grandisson of
Exeter wrote to the Archdeacon of Cornwall complaining
of the negligence or accidents which had occasioned the
loss of the records of the lives of many Cornish saints, and
enjoining that two, or even three, copies of the legends of
such as remained in the parish churches dedicated to their
memory should be made and transmitted to Exeter. It
is, and must be, a matter of bitter regret that the documents
thus collected, and which would have thrown a flood of
light on the history of Cornwall, cannot now be traced.
It has been, and is still, very much the fashion to decry
the ancient Celtic Church, and to accept Gildas as a true
witness against it. Thus Professor W. E. Collins, in a
-*
»J» — ^*
80 Lives of the Saints.
series of lectures on the Early Church in our islands, says :
" The evidence all points, and points irresistibly, to the
conclusion that Christianity in Roman Britain was a weak
thing." And again, " The British Church was in the
highest degree weak, wanting in initiative, and debased
both in faith and morals." This may possibly be true of the
Romano-British Church, but we know really nothing about
it, because every trace was obliterated by the advancing
Saxons in blood and fire. That it was true of the Church
in Wales and Cornwall, and in Ireland, may be greatly
doubted. We have, indeed, the invective of Gildas ; but
he was clearly a violent, scurrilous writer, who took a
delight, like an ill bird, in befouling his own nest ; and
the reason was that he belonged to the party which was
anti-national in Church matters — he desired to bring the
British Church into conformity with that in Gaul and in
Rome. It is said that Augustine and his successors taunted
the bishops of the British Church with doing nothing for
the conversion of the invaders. But we may well inquire.
Was it likely that the invaders would suffer them ? and the
Celtic Church later on nobly redeemed the charge ; for, as
Bishop Lightfoot has said, " Aidan, and not Augustine, was
the Apostle of England." Bede looked with abhorrence on
the Celtic Church, yet he was compelled to admit the
saintly lives of its bishops, and the zeal of its missionaries.
Aldhelm of Sherborne wrote to Geruntius, Prince of
Domnonia, in 705, and the "enormities" committed by
the British believers in Christ he limited to the Celtic
tonsure, to the wrong keeping of Easter, and to a few
like trifles. As Mr. Newell says : " The importance of
Aldhelm's letter does not lie in the conversions it effected,
so much as in the contemporaneous picture it presents of
the condition of the Church in Wales. It is evident from
the language of Aldhelm that the Welsh Christians were pure
j( ___ 1^
*-
The Celtic Church a7id its Saints. 8i
in doctrine, and at least so far pure in morals, that none
of the English Christians could venture to cast the first
stone against them. They even seem to have laid claim to
a morality superior to that of the English, which Aldhelm
is forced to acknowledge, though he deems such holiness
worthless on account of their state of schism. It does
not appear that he refrained from offensive charges out of
courtesy to those whom he addressed ; he rather magnified
their faults, or, at least, used much plainness of speech,
so that his testimony to the virtues of the Britons, and
especially of the Welsh, is the more valuable, as extorted
from an enemy."
It would be easy, looking at the horrible picture of the
Frank monarchs as painted for us by Gregory of Tours,
to pronounce against Gaul, Woe ! woe ! and deny to the
Christianity professed by the Franks recuperative power.
The times were those of violence. The condition in which
were the Britons was one of discomfiture. Their faults
were those of their national lack of organisation. But to
accept what has been said by her mortal enemies against a
Church which had not the means of replying, is to act on
the adage, " Give a dog a bad name, and hang him."
When Gerald de Barri wrote in the twelfth century,
he admitted the high quality of religion among the Welsh.
" They give the first piece broken off every loaf of bread
to the poor; they sit down to dinner by three to a dish,
in honour of the Trinity. With extended arms and bowed
head they ask a blessing of every priest or monk, or of
every person in a religious habit. They covet, above all
other nations, the episcopal ordination and unction, by which
the grace of the Spirit is given. They give a tenth of all
their property, . . . either when they marry or go on
pilgrimage, or are persuaded to amend their lives." He
goes on to speak of their kindness to animals. " Hermits
VOL. XVI. F
»{. .J.
82 Lives of the Saints.
and anchorites more strictly abstinent and more spiritual
can nowhere be found ; for this nation is earnest in all its
pursuits, and neither worse men than the bad, nor better
men than the good, can be met with anywhere."
The Welsh had their faults — they were passionate, re-
vengeful, often engaged in fratricidal warfare. Gerald
condemns their system of ecclesiastical organisation, or
rather, their lack of it, and the hereditary succession to
ecclesiastical jurisdiction ; and he denounces the sin of
incest common among the Welsh princes, but means by
this expression no more than marriages within the fourth
degree, without those contracting it feeing Rome to grant
them dispensations.
No Church has been more misrepresented and maltreated
than has the ancient Celtic Church, yet no Church with such
small means, and under such difficulties, achieved greater
things, and did more for religion in Europe.
It is true that the Celtic races stood on a lower stage
of political organisation than their several conquerors.
It is this, and this alone, that explains the conquest of
Britain by the Saxons. It is this that explains the
manner in which Wales fell an easy prey to Norman
adventurers, and that Ireland in like manner was mastered
by Strongbow and Henry II.
The Feudal system was a great and grand creation of
the Teutonic genius under the influence of Christianity.
It accepted the Christian principle, that every privilege
involves corresponding duties. No man liveth or dieth
to himself alone. Each man who received an office owed
allegiance to him by whom the office was conferred, and
forfeited it if he neglected the duties it involved. All
power, all authority devolved from God for certain just
purposes. Feudalism did much towards the development
of the sense of duty so strong in the English and German
* *
*■
The Celtic Church and its Saints. 83
mind. Moreover, Feudalism compacted all who submitted
to it into one body, that moved with irresistible and crush-
ing force against such as were loosely and arbitrarily united.
In Celtic tribalism was no cohesion based on principle. It
depended on the arbitrary will, the caprice of chiefs, whether
they combined or fought independently.
The characteristic trend of Celtic genius is towards re-
publicanism, but it is a republicanism that is ready at any
moment to resolve itself into blind adhesion to a chief
who knows how to captivate the. imagination. The Celt
has always loved, and rightly, to have his say on all topics
connected with his religion, his social and political organi-
sation, and not only to have his say thereon, but to
control it.
Perhaps we have an excellent illustration of the trend of
the Celtic mind in the outbreak of the French Revolution,
leading to Imperialism under Napoleon I. This was the
rising of a great nation, largely Celtic, against the abso-
lutism of the French monarchy utterly opposed to its
ideals, to assert those principles which lay deep in its
heart; and when this was done, and produced wrongs
great and crying, because suddenly introduced instead of
having been slowly evolved, in sequence, tested and verified,
it abandoned itself to absolutism again under another form,
but only so long as its imagination was impressed by the
grandeur of Napoleon.
In religious matters the Celt is an enthusiast ; the love
and fear of God are perhaps more deeply seated in him than
in any other race of men. As Sir Roland L. Vaughan-
Williams has truly said, " Enthusiasm in religion is, I think
you will agree with me, characteristic of the Welsh, nay,
more, characteristic of the Celtic race ; and I trust you will
further agree with me, that another characteristic of the
Celts is the ardent desire, amounting almost to a passion.
-*
*
84 Lives of the Saints.
that their institutions, whether civil or ecclesiastical, shall
have a local character." ^
The great defect of the Celt is impatience. He is pene-
trating in intellect, but he has not the temper that will
allow an idea to work itself out slowly, modifying itself to
suit times and circumstances. Here it is that the ass-like
stolidity and stubbornness of the Saxon nature avails. The
English mind is not clear, its wit is not trenchant; but
it is forbearing, patient, and withal resolute.
In the Christian Church we may well speculate what
might have been the result had Celtic Christianity been
allowed to expand and shape itself logically, and in accord-
ance with the genius of the race.
We know the Church only under the form she adopted
consequent on her taking shape in the highly organised
Roman world, running itself into the moulds already
formed, and insensibly partaking of the leading Roman
idea of centralisation, and subjection of every part to the
authority at the Capital of the World. Such an ideal
agreed with the inarticulate cravings of the Teutonic mind,
and the Anglo-Saxon readily lent himself to carry it into
effect.
It was the misfortune of the Celt everywhere — in Gaul,
in Britain, in Ireland — never to be allowed to work out
his own ideas, to develop his own institutions logically to
a constituted government on firm basis. Nor was he
suffered to mould his Church as most convenient to him-
self. It is quite true that Christ said, " Ye have not
chosen Me, but I have chosen you" (S. John xv. 16),
and that all commission and authority must devolve from
Him ; but this principle may be carried too far, and it is
so when the Church is regarded as a sacerdotally ruled
body, in which the laity have no rights except to receive
1 Transactions 0/ the Hon. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, 1895, p. 17.
^ ■ — ►?•
7^/ie Celtic Church and its Saints, 85
the Sacraments. The revolt against the Latin Church in
Scotland, in Wales, and in England, as well as that of the
Huguenots in France, was to a large extent due to the
Latin organisation being opposed to Celtic ideals. Pro-
testantism, Calvinistic and Zwinglian, is a new theory,
sprung from the people, created by the people, and has
no roots in the past. It was not an outcome of the gradual
growth of a constitution from small beginnings — first the
blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear — but
was a convulsion, like the French Revolution, leading to
the exaggeration of certain principles, true in themselves,
but with forgetfulness of correlative principles — the Divine
origin of the Church, and delegation of authority in God's
kingdom.
It is certainly a most hopeful sign, that since the dis-
establishment of the Irish Church it has re-shaped itself on
these constitutional lines, which are in complete accord
with the Celtic spirit. The choice of bishops, the order
of Church government, ritual and liturgy, are all deter-
mined by diocesan and general synods, at which clergy
and laity are represented. The Church thus works as a
living entity and an active organism, in accordance with
the processes of natural life; but spiritual life comes not
from man, but from Him who gives natural life.
Had the Latin Church not trodden out independent
Celtic Christianity it is not improbable that in Celtic lands
the Church would be found alive, vigorous, one with its
past, different in many particulars from the Latin and the
Anglican Churches, yet one in faith and one in devolution
of authority from Christ, through the Apostles; Catholic in
belief, but with the congregational system developed in a
way different from that which is parochial, and the episcopal
order possibly without jurisdiction, the latter reserved to
synods. We may well suspect that in that event there
* ^
*-
86 Lives of the Saints.
would have been no Calvinism in Scotland and no Non-
conformity in Wales. One fact in the history of the British
people should never be lost sight of : it is this, " That the
Celtic Church, unadulterated by foreign influence, was for
nearly half the whole time which has elapsed since the
birth of Christ the dominant Church in Wales." ^
The late Mr. Green wrote a valuable, but one-sided, work
on " The Making of England." That making, in his eyes,
consisted in the expulsion of the Briton, and in the acces-
sion to mastery of the Latin Church. But surely although
it may be through the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin Church
working together that England arrived at political unity,
yet the imposition of an ecclesiastical system alien to, and
distasteful to, the Celt bred the after revolt of the spiritual
life, and the expulsion of the foreign element. Moreover, if
we look at, not England, but the English, what has been the
making of the race ? If man be mere flesh, and bread be
mere dough, then English men are what they are because
of the great Teutonic invasion. Our Anglo-Saxon forebears
possessed rare qualities, perseverance, tenacity, and power
of organisation ; yet the higher qualities in our race, the
searching intellect, the bright imagination, above all, ideal-
ism, that straining after what is high and pure, are due to
the spark of living fire entering the lump of heavy, plodding
German nature, through contact with the Celt.
Note. — In confirmation of my view, as opposed to that of
Freeman and Green, who say that the Britons were exterminated
by the Saxons, Gildas may be quoted, who says of them, " Some,
being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ;
others, constrained by famine, yielded themselves to be slaves
to their foes ; others, again, passed beyond the seas."
1 Sir R. L. Vaughan-Williams : " Y Cymmrodor," 1895.
* >^
BRITTANY.
After the migrations
from britain
Appendix Vol. , p. 86. ]
-*
BRITTANY, ITS PRINCES AND SAINTS.
N the sketch of the Celtic Church and its Saints
I have spoken briefly of the colonisation of
Armorica from Britain. But the subject is so
important, and so httle known, that I purpose
in the following pages to treat it with more detail. Not
only does the history of this colony throw some light on
that of Wales and Cornwall during the fifth and two
subsequent centuries, but it also serves to illustrate the
peculiarities of Celtic ecclesiastical foundations.
The earliest indication of the settlement of British
immigrants that we have is afforded by the appearance of
Mansuetus, described as " Bishop of the Britons " at the
Council of Tours in 461. We might have suspected him
to be a visitor on his travels ; but we hear shortly after of
a considerable body settled in Armorica.
The final conquest of Kent took place in 465, after
which, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us, the Britons
" forsook Kentland and fled with much fear to London."
This was the occasion of a schism among the Britons.
The Romanised natives of the cities rose in revolt against
Vortigern, who had invited over the Jutes, and headed by
Aurelius Ambrosius, a descendant of the last Roman
general in the island who had assumed the purple, they
drove Vortigern into Wales, and undertook the conduct of
the war against the invader. We may fix the date of the
first large migration to Armorica as happening in conse-
quence of this strife among the Britons themselves. But
87
*-
previous to this for some time there was assuredly an influx
from Devon and Cornwall, as the Celtic political organisation
required these periodic swarms, or else, inter-tribal war.
Shortly after the appearance of Mansuetus at Tours we
learn from Sidonius Apollinaris, in 469, that the Britons
were already settled on the north of the Loire in sufficient
numbers to make them important auxiliaries against the
invading Visigoths.
In 468 Arvandus, Prefect of Gaul, having involved him-
self in difficulties, and being discredited at Rome, and
expecting his supersession, invited the Barbarians to enter
Gaul, and urged them to attack the Britons on the Loire,
" as the most useful supporters of the Empire."
From this it is clear that in 460 the colony was one
numbering many able-bodied men, and this is confirmed
by Jornandes, who tells us that Riothimus, chief of the
Britons, came in a fleet of boats, probably up the Loire to
Tours, to meet the Visigoths under their king, Euric, and
was defeated at Deols, near Chateauroux, in Indre, and,
having been cut off" from his ships, was forced to fall back
on the Burgundians.
In what part of the peninsula the first colony had settled
we are not told, but everything leads to the conclusion that
it was between the mouths of the Vilaine and the Loire.
About the same period, perhaps 460, a colony arrived
on the north coast under one Fragan, which settled near
where now stands S. Brieuc. Already S. Budoc was
settled in the island of Lauret, close to the larger isle of
Br^hat. His story is so utterly fabulous, that it is impossible
to say whence he came, or when ; but as Fragan committed
his son to him to be educated, it is clear that he had
preceded him by some years.
The colonies settling in Armorica may be grouped into
three, exclusive of that under Riothimus. One from Gwent
-*
-*
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 89
descended on the north-west coast, where now stands S.
Pol de Leon, and established themselves under a native
Gwentian prince, and called their principahty L^on or
Lyonesse, after Caerleon which they had left. It remained
an independent state till about 530, when it was united to
Domnonia. This latter state extended from Leon to the
river Couesnon.
At the time the whole interior of Armorica was occupied
by an enormous forest, and the ancient Roman roads only
cut across outlying branches, or skirted it. The interior
was entirely unexplored, and without inhabitants. In many
places this forest sent down dense coppice along the rivers
to the sea, to where the winds caught and distorted the trees,
and forbade further growth. But the wind-swept stony dis-
trict of Finisterre was treeless; it was a dreary waste of
bog and stony desert.
The Domnonian colony issued, as we may suppose, from
Devon, and the colonists gave to their new home the name
of that they had left, and were, it would seem, under the
rule of the same royal house.
The south-east of the Armorican peninsula received a
swarm from Britain of men who called themselves Cernau,
and they made their headquarters at Curiosopitum, now
Quimper. Here the forest did not extend so greatly to-
wards the sea, and they were therefore able to settle
farther inland than the Domnonii of the north. The
river Blavet divided them from the Gallo-Roman occu-
pants of the diocese of Vannes.
The monkish writers in later times converted Cernau
into Cornavii; and the French called the principality
Cornouaille.
Whence came they? The most recent historian of
Brittany broaches a truly wondrous theory. He finds
that in the times of Roman domination in Britain a body
-*
90 Lives of the Saints.
of fighting men belonging to the Cornavii, the occupants
of Cheshire and Shropshire, were engaged to defend the
wall of Severus, and their headquarters he conjectures to
have been at a settlement just west of Newcastle called
Corstopitum. When the Anglo-Saxons and the Picts com-
bined against the Britons, then he supposes that this body
of troops — we have not, by the way, the slightest reason
for supposing that the Shropshire contingent had continued
there for a hundred years after the mention in the Notitia
Dignitatum — took to their heels, and then to their boats
at Chester, and rowed till they had reached Armorica.
where they founded a new Curiosopitum. The whole theory
rests on assumptions — that the Cornavii still defended the
wall, and that Curiosopitum in Brittany was named after
Corstopitum in Northumberland.
But curio is, perhaps, merely a Latinisation of Caerau,
and sopitum is from swp, an agglomeration ; and the name
was applicable to any cluster of fortified enclosures.
Nor can these Cornavii have been immigrants from
Shropshire, as the Severn valley was not invaded till 583
by Ceawlin, who swept it with fire and sword, and burned
Wroxeter. But the Cernau of Brittany had already been
settled there a century before that date. We are much more
likely to be near the truth if we consider this colonisation to
have been from Cornwall, and to have been due to the in-
road made in the fifth century by the combined families of
Brychan and Gwynnlyw from Brecknock and Gwent, who
took possession of so large a tract of land in North Cornwall
and Devon. It must be remembered that a Celtic tribe was
compelled to send off swarms at fixed periods, for the
obligations of the chief towards members of his tribe ceased
with the eighth generation, and accordingly an emigration
of a cast-off generation was periodically inevitable. There
had been descents from Cornwall of such founders of new
►i«-
*
-*
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 91
tribes for some time on the west coast of Brittany, but when
a great mass of settlers came down on the coast of the
Cornish peninsula and dispossessed the original owners,
these latter moved after their brethren in large fleets. It
is possible that the same cause operated in Devon, and pro-
duced the founding of Armorican Domnonia. But there
was another occasion for these colonising ventures.
Great numbers of Britons fled West from the swords of
the Saxons into Dyfnaint or Domnonia, which was other-
wise quite unaffected by the Anglo-Saxon invasion till
Ceadwalla attacked it in 71 o, and it was not conquered till
between 754 and 766. The great marshy tract of the
Parret, the vast bogs about Glastonbury, proved for cen-
turies a barrier against invasion. But fugitives threaded
the swamps or crept along the well-fortified high ground
that walled off Devon on the side of Dorset, and accumu-
lated in inconvenient numbers in the as yet untroubled land
of dales and rivers. They could not all be accommodated
there, and it became advisal)le for the princes to place
bands of these refugees under princelings of their own
house, to convey them over the sea to build up an auxiliary
state in Armorica.
I have already noticed the accounts given of these
migrations in the previous article, as given by Procopius
and Ermold Nigellus.
Let us now see what was the method adopted in these
attempts at colonisation. The chief of a band of settlers
on reaching the Armorican coast formed his plou^ that is
to say, tribe. The monkish writers translate plou by plebs.
They formed a stockaded caer, into which they could retreat
in the event of hostilities with the natives, and in which the
chief resided. Each family was then granted a trcf, a home-
stead and land about it, for its maintenance. A hundred
trefs in Wales forms a cantref ; the number was, however,
*
undetermined in a new colony ; but various numbers made
up a plou, and the land occupied by the immigration was
called a pou or pagus. After a while this chief sent for an
ecclesiastic who was a kinsman, unless one arrived as a
colonist, and he gave to him a piece of territory, on which
he in turn planted his lann (Welsh llan), that is to say,
made the sacred enclosure in which he reared his church.
In Brittany we have plenty of places called PIou, and plenty
called Lan. The former mark the central station of the
secular, the latter the church of the ecclesiastical tribe.
It has often struck visitors to Cornwall that the churches
are at a considerable distance from the towns, and that not
through accident of mining settlements starting up away
from villages, but old established towns, such as Callington,
three miles from its parish church of Southill, Camelford, a
peculiarly scandalous case, without even a chapel of ease in
itj two good miles from its church, Lanteglos; Marazion,
Penzance, Falmouth, Penryn, Hayle, &c. Most of these
have been rectified of late years, only Camelford is left
without a religious centre in its midst. But this is a relic of
a very ancient condition of affairs, when the secular and
ecclesiastical tribes were distinct entities, and the llan was
not, and could not be, in the caer or the plou. The Saxon
thane liked to have his church by his house, and his priest
as his chaplain, but in Celtic lands each was largely inde-
pendent of the other, and the glebe is at this day the relic
of the ecclesiastical territory about the llan, in which lived
the tribesmen of the saint.
As already pointed out, the Breton bishoprics differed
in constitution from those of the Breton marches, Nantes
and Rennes, for each of them constituted an ecclesiastical
principality ; this constitution it possessed from the begin-
ning, when the head of the little ecclesiastical state was an
abbot of princely race.
»j»-
-*
Brittany^ its Princes and Saints. 93
So far I have spoken only of L^on, Domnonia, and
Cornouaille. But the territory of Vannes was soon invaded
and occupied largely by Britons, and the town alone re-
mained in the hands of the original Gallo-Ronians. A
district was carved out of it in or about 465, comprising
the whole seaboard from the EUe to the peninsula of Ruis,
and extending back to the heart of the great central forest
of Brecilien, which was entirely under the rule of British
princes or counts, and this was called the Bro Weroc.
And the consequence of this occupation of the Armoric
peninsula was that from the sixth century it ceased to be
called other than Little Britain or Brittany; and that the
ancient tongue, of which monuments remain, belonging
to the Gallo-Roman domination, disappeared completely,
and was replaced by the British tongue as spoken in
Cornwall and Wales.
" By the middle of the sixth century," says M. Loth, " all
in the peninsula was changed — name, language, customs.
This was not due to an infiltration, but to an inundation." ^
I will now take each division of Armorica and sketch
the story of the occupation of each in order. But it must
be premised that the record is most incomplete ; we have
but the story of the saints who established their monastic
settlements and lanns ; but the story of the secular princes
has come to us only so far as it was interwoven with that
of the saints they endowed with lands, or whom they
bullied. In Brittany, as in Ireland and as in Wales, the
story of their relations is the same ; the saints stand on a
high level of influence ; they are cajoled and then maltreated
by the secular chiefs, who are always terribly afraid of the
curses of these sacred medicine-men.
I have already said something of the settlement in L^on.
It was made up mainly of colonists from Gwent, and was
1 Loth, " L'Emigration bretonne en Armorique."
^ ■ *
94 Lives of the Saints.
very probably an offshoot of that migration which invaded
and took possession of North Devon and North Cornwall.
Perhaps the earliest to arrive were a husband and his wife
— their names were Glaudan and Gologwen — in a solitary
coracle, which had been separated from the flotilla of which
it had formed a part. They came ashore in Lesneven,
near Brest, and found dense forest reaching to the shore.
They searched, but it was some time before they found a
habitation, occupied by a half-savage native, no doubt of
Ivernian stock, who churlishly refused assistance to the
new arrivals, and that although the young wife had just
been confined of a boy. The husband wandered farther,
lost his way in the wood, and only found his wife again at
night. The child borne under such trials was S, Goulven.
At the beginning of the sixth century a chief named
Tudoghil, with his wife and family, his clients and serfs,
arrived in one of the estuaries between which stretched
north-west of the peninsula of Plou-Ediner.
Another petty chief named Romelius, with his wife
Laetitia, came shortly after.
A third, called Withur, arrived with a large body of men
under him and formed an organised state. He took the land
from the Aber Ildut to the river of Morlaix, and founded
two pious at least. Then he settled in the isle of Batz,
from which he governed the entire tribe. To make quite
sure that he should not be dispossessed or assailed by the
natives he entered into relations with Childebert, king of
Paris, and secured promise of support. About 515 arrived
a kinsman, Paulus Aurelianus, also from Gwent, a disciple
of S. Iltyd. He seems, however, to have been a native of
Bovium, now Boverton, in Morganwg, then forming a
portion of the kingdom of Gwent. He had been sum-
moned by Mark Conmor, a small king, to direct the spiritual
affairs in his petty realm ; but he did not remain there long,
*
Brittany, its Priftces and Saints. 95
in fact, only two years, and then, as the legend says, rather
than become bishop, probably thinking to obtain a wider
field for his energies, fled to Armorica, where he disem-
barked in the island of Ouessant, at a port which he named
after his native place, Porz Ejenned (Port of the Oxen).
His community consisted of twelve priests, twelve laymen
of noble birth, nephews or cousins of the saint, all im-
patient to found tribes, and each taking with him wife
and children, and clansmen and clients, who threw in
their fortunes with their leader. Finally, they brought with
them a quantity of slaves and servants. All the twelve
priests were saints, and founded lanns, and merited to have
memorial chapels erected over their graves. S. Paul erected
his own Han at a place in the island still called after him,
Lampaul, which is the principal village of the island.
But the limits of Ouessant were too contracted for
Paul's ardent spirit, and he crossed over to the mainland
and founded another llan in a clearing of the forest, where
remains to this day his foundation of Lampaul-Ploudal-
mezan. At the same time one of his lay companions,
named Pedr, founded a plou and established himself in a
fortified caer that still carries his name, Ker-Ber, or the
castle of Peter.
But Paul could not remain quiet at this new station.
After two years he was on the move again, and now he
went along the north coast in an easterly direction till he
reached a Plou-Meinin, a rocky land colonised by some of
the clansmen of Withur, whom he resolved on visiting,
partly because he could not settle in his district without
his consent, and also because he was a relative. He ac-
cordingly boated over to the isle of Batz. Paul was wel-
comed by the count, whom he found engaged on making
a copy of the Gospels. Withur, who was now very much
taken up with making his peace with God, made over the
^-
^__ — ^
g6 Lives of the Saints.
island of Batz to Paul, on condition that he went to
Childebert to negotiate for him some political settlement.
To this he agreed. Finally Paul settled where is now
S. Pol de Leon, where he ruled as a true saint-prince over
ten trefs or, as the monastic scribes translate them, tribes,
the whole constituting one ecclesiastical principality, con-
terminous in later times with the diocese of Leon. On the
death of Withur without children his principality was ab-
sorbed into Domnonia, with the exception of that portion
which Paul had claimed and received by right of kinship to
the tiern or chief. The later writers of the lives of some
of the saints could not understand early systems of parti-
tion of lands, and they make Paul go to Childebert and
receive the episcopate whilst with him, forced on him by
the king. The course of affairs was probably this. Paul,
knowing well that Withur was without heirs, went to him
and demanded as his right as a kinsman a large slice of his
principality. Withur consented, acknowledging the right,
but bade him get Childebert's consent. Paul visited Paris,
and there the Frank king expressed his willingness to
ratify the negotiation on condition of Paul's being made
bishop over the district. Paul did not see that this was at
all necessary. An abbot kept his bishops on his staff to
ordain, but according to his ideas it was quite unnecessary
to accumulate offices in his own hands ; he might as well
constitute himself his own steward. However, Childebert
had been taught differently by the Latin-Frank ecclesiastics ;
he associated the idea of jurisdiction with episcopacy, as
essential ; he persisted, and Paul acquiesced reluctantly.
Again, another arrival from Gwent is to be noted, and
that about the same time; this was the immigration of
Carenkinal and Arthmael. The former came as secular,
the latter as ecclesiastical chief. They landed, where had
others, in the estuary of the Aber Ildut, and there Plou-
*-
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 97
Arzcl still bears the name of the first colony planted by
Arthmael and his cousin. This remained in the hands of
Carenkinal, and Arthmael went east to visit his fellow-
countryman Paul, and see whether he could be useful to
him, and perhaps also better himself. It is, however,
possible that there may have been a quarrel between him
and Carenkinal, and that the layman turned out the eccle-
siastic. Such is the story as we have it, very fragmentary,
of the colonisation of Lyonesse or Leon.
We will now turn to that of Domnonia, that is to say,
the whole of the north coast from the river Keffleut or
Morlaix to the Couesnon at Pontorson, roughly speaking,
of -the present departments of C6tes-du-Nord and of the
northern portion of lUe-et-Vilaine.
The early history is vague and legendary.
We know so much, that before 460 S. Budoc was settled
as abbot of a monastery in the isle of Lauret, near that of
Brehat, and connected with it at low tides. He would not
have been there unless he had powerful relatives established
as secular chiefs near. He was doubtless a brother or son
of one of the Domnonian princes in Britain. He is not to
be confounded with his namesake. Bishop of Dol, who died
in 588. In or about 460 one Fragan or Brychan, with his
wife Gwen and his sons, arrived in the bay of S. Brieu':
and settled near the river Gouet, and founded a plou that
still bears his name. He was a native of Gwent, and his
wife was grand-daughter of Aldroen or Aldwr, king or
tiern of the West Welsh settlements in Brittany. Their
son, Winwaloe, they committed to S. Budoc, to be trained
to become an ecclesiastical chieftain.
Another arrival was Rhiwal, from Cardiganshire, at the
head of a large body of clansmen, who landed where had
Fragan, and who sought to establish themselves between
the Gouet and the Urne in close proximity to Fragan,
VOL. XVI. G
^
^_ ^
I
98 Lives of the Saints.
where is now S. Brieuc. About 485 arrived in the same
harbour S. Brioc, with at least sixty persons with him in
the same vessel. Brioc was probably from Ceredigion, the
present Cardiganshire ; the date of his arrival was about 485.
Rhiwal received him favourably, and gave him land on which
to settle, and when he died constituted him his successor,
as they were kinsmen ; consequently the whole of the colony
land and tribesmen was converted into an ecclesiastical
principality.
We next hear of a prince or king over Domnonia
bearing the same name, possibly the same man, Hoel or
Riwal, i.e. Rhi (the chief) Hywel, who lived between 511
and 520; but at precisely the same time we fihd a prince
of the same name in Cornouaille. This Riwal is reported
to have been son of Deroc, and to have had two brothers,
Erbyn or Urbinian and Dinothus. Hoel of Cornouaille
was the son of Budic I., who had been expelled from Armo-
rica, and had taken refuge in Britain. It is possible that
Budic and Deroc are the same man, and that Deroc is
merely an epithet attaching to him for his churlishness.
The brother Dinothus is probably an importation from
the legend of S. Ursula by the monastic compiler of the
legend. In this latter, Dinothus, successor to Caradoc on
the throne of Cornwall, was the father of the mythical
Ursula.
Hoel Mawr, king of Cornouaille probably claimed at this
time some sort of sovereignty over the northern coast of
Armorica.
The next prince of Domnonia of whom we hear is again
a Deroc, who is thought to have ruled from 520 to 535 ;
he was son of Riwal. Here arises a difficulty of identifi-
cation, if we assume Riwal of Domnonia to have been the
same as Hoel Mawr of Cornouaille. The latter had a son,
Budic II., who succeeded him, but not at once. He was
-*
* iB
Brittany^ its Princes and Saints. 99
in exile in or about 510, and did not return to Armorica
till 545, and he certainly was only in Cornouaille, for Canao
had usurped all Domnonia and murdered Hoel II. This
Deroc of Domnonia may have been chief or prince placed
there by his father, Hoel Mawr, during his lifetime, on his
return from Britain in 520 ; if so, he was the father of Hoel
II. (Vychan), also known as Jonas. It is very difficult to
unravel the descents of the princes of Brittany owing to
their having been known by so many names or nick-
names.
Under this Deroc appeared in Armorica a very remark-
able man, Tugdual. His mother was Alma Pompgea, and
his father Hoel Mawr. His appearance in Brittany syn-
chronised with the recovery of his patrimony by Hoel. But
he did not visit Cornouaille, but occupied himself in obtain-
ing settlements, and founding lanns or Hans throughout
Domnonia from Finisterre to the Couesnon, and in the Pou
Caer, that basin between the arms of high land opening to
the western sea, and watered by the Aune, in which now
lies the celebrated pilgrimage shrine of Huelgoet.
He seems to have demanded everywhere grants of land,
and to have had these conceded to him readily by Deroc,
who seems to be the same as Hoel 11.,^ who died suddenly
in 549; and it was suspected that he had been murdered
by his brother Canao, acting in collusion with Conmor,
count or chief of Pou Caer. Canao took possession of all
Cornouaille. Conmor first laid hold of Leon, and then
usurped rule over the whole of Domnonia. S. Tugdual
had to fly for refuge to Childebert at Paris.
To understand the rather complicated story, I must leave
Domnonia and go to Cornouaille. Here we find at the
1 By some it is supposed that Hoel II. was the son of Deroc. Tlie kings were
sometimes known by their titles, sometimes by their names, at other times by their
nicknames, and this makes the unravelling of the history of their succession most
puzzliog.
lOO Lives of the Saints.
close of the fifth century a king named Gradlo Mawr, who
ruled with a strong hand till about 505.
In his time S. Ronan, a disciple of S. Patrick, came to
the coasts. He landed in the west of Leon, at Aber-Ildut,
but came south and settled in the pou or district of
Porzoed, between Chateaulin and Quimper. He was at
first coldly then favourably received by Gradlo. This
Ruan is no other than the saint who has left indelible
traces of his presence in Cornwall and Devon, where he is
known as Ruan, Roman, and Rumon. It was perhaps not
wonderful that having spent so long a time in insular
Cornwall he should visit the Cornouaille, inhabited by the
same people, and governed by descendants of the same
princely house of Domnonia.
Winwaloe also made his appearance in Cornouaille after
leaving his master Budoc. He founded his great monastery
of Landevennec near its northern limit, on the estuary of
the Aune. But he had another Landevennec in Cornwall,
and his time must have been distributed between visits to
his monasteries in Cornwall and in Cornouaille. Another
saint who worked in the Armorican peninsula was Tudi, a
contemporary of Gradlo and Winwaloe, but of whose life
no continuous record remains. There was again another,
S. Corentin, regarded as the first bishop of Quimper, but a
bishop at that time, and among the British, implied some-
thing very different from what was supposed by the late
writer who compiled his Life. He also was a founder in
Cornwall of the church of Cury.
Another, S. Day, was a founder of churches in both
Cornwalls.
The early history of the kings of Brittany is peculiarly
difficult of elucidation. The first named is Hoel or
Riwalin Maccon, or King Hoel the Great, son of Conan,
and he is assumed to have been the son of the some-
Brittany, its Pri?tces a7td Saints. loi
what mythical Cynan Meiriadog. On his death his brother,
Urbian or Erbyn Concaer, succeeded, but it is not
clear whether they ruled over Domnonia or over Cor-
nouaille, or over both together. The son of Erbyn was
Selyf or Solomon, surnamed Gweddol, or "the Handsome."
He fell in battle against his own subjects about 434, and
is esteemed a martyr. Here we are constrained to notice
the identity of family names of the ruling house in Cor-
nouaille and that in Cornwall. In both we have Howels,
Erbyns, and Solomons, and I think, that when we put this
together with the fact of the saints of both Cornwalls being
the same, and the people of both calling themselves Cernau,
that we must conclude that Armorican Cornouaille was a
colony from Cornwall, and had nothing to do with the
Cornavii of Shropshire.
The next name comes to us from the Welsh genealogies ;
it is that of Cynfor. He is not named in Brittany as having
reigned, and if he were, as is probable, the son of Solomon,
then after the death of his father he fled to Britain. His
son, however, Aldor, Aldroen, or Audrian, is a man who
has been laid hold of by that romancer Geoffrey of Mon-
mouth. He is known alike to Welsh and to Breton
chroniclers. At some time, probably about 510, he had to
return to Britain, whether to escape from an insurrection,
or merely to look after his affairs in Cornwall, we do not
know. The brother of Aldor was Constantine, surnamed
Gorneu, or " the Cornishman," but also known in Welsh
pedigrees as Constantine Llydaw, or " the Armorican," and
also as Bendigaid, or " the Blessed." The time of his
assumption of the Domnonian throne in West Wales was
433, just about the time of the death of Solomon I.
Aldor's eldest son is known to tlie Welsh as Emyr Llydaw,
or "the Armorican," but he seems to have been driven into
banishment, for he was for some years in Wales, in Morganwg
^
1 02 Lives of the Samts.
apparently, as his sons married the daughters of Mewrig,
king of that country. At the same time there was another
refugee in Wales from Brittany, Budic I. of Cornouaille,
son of Daniel, son of Ian Reith, who founded the dynasty.
Budic settled in Carmarthenshire, and one of his sons,
accidentally killed, is buried at Llandeilo. According to
Welsh accounts, his sister, Rhian, became the mother of
S. Illtyd. After the restoration of Budic, in 490, S. Teilo
visited him, and founded lanns in his territories. Another
sister of Budic was Gwen Teirbron, who married ^neas
Llydewig, and by him became the mother of S. Cadfan.
Her second husband was Fragan, of whom we have already
heard, and to him she bore S. Winwaloe.
Budic died about 509, leaving several sons — Hoel I.,
Melyan, Oudoc, Ishmael, and Tewdric. The territory was,
after the usual manner with Celts, divided among the sons,
Oudoc and Ishmael excepted, for the former of these had
become a devoted disciple of S. Teilo, and Ishmael of
S. David.
According to the Welsh accounts, Budic had lived in
Dyfed when driven from his principality till the death of
the usurper, who may have been, and probably was, Gradlo.
A child of his, Tyfei, had been accidentally killed near
Llandeilo, and the pretty little church of Llandefeisant, in
the park of Lord Dynevor, commemorates his name, and
stands over his grave.
Tewdric became prince in Cornwall, and Hoel and
Melyan divided the Brittany principality between them.
But that happened in Armorica which was of constant
recurrence in Wales, one brother desired to get hold of the
share of the other. Melyan reigned for seven years, from
530 to 537, and was then treacherously stabbed by Hoel.
Melyan, by his wife Aurelia, had left a son, Mellor, who
was obliged to take refuge, first in one place, then another,
*
— ©
Brittafiy, its Princes and Saints. 103
from his uncle, who, however, first mutilated him and then
killed him. He died shortly after this, and this sudden
death was regarded as due to the vengeance of Heaven for
the double crime.
The death of Hoel left Armorica to be fought for between
his grandsons. But of these, two, S. Tugdual and S.
Leonore, had embraced the religious life, and would be
content with the very ample endowments in Domnonia;
but the others, Hoel 11., Vychan, also called Jonas, Canao,
Ere or Gwerch, and Macliau, chose their shares of the
secular inheritance. Budic II. was at this time tiern^
prince of Cornouaille. His relationship to the brothers
is not very certain. He was married to a sister of S.
Teilo, so that he had been in Wales with Budic I., and
was probably his son.^
Canao was an ambitious man, and he proceeded to
murder those of his brothers whom he could get into his
hands — Hoel Vychan and Ere. This was in 546, Hoel,
his brother, had been married to a daughter of Maelgwn
Gwynedd. Canao not only murdered his brother, but at
once took to him the widow, his sister-in-law. Macliau
would have fallen a prey as well, but that he fled for refuge
to Conmor, count of Bro-Weroc, and when Canao pursued
him there he fled farther to Vannes, where he took orders,
and was promoted to be bishop. But he also was an
ambitious man. Budic II. had entrusted his young son,
Tewdric, to his care. Macliau drove him into exile, and
seized on all Cornouaille except Pou Caer, where Conmor
was too powerful for him to touch, and ruied it along with
his diocese of Vannes. Hoel Vychan had left a son,
Judual, who fled for his life and took refuge at the court
1 It is very difficult to be at all sure of tlic descents. M. de la IJorderie makes
Macliau and Canao sons of Gwerch I. liut Hoel Vychan was their brother. I
attempt to give only a conjectural pedigree.
(J, . ;^
104 Lives of the Saints.
of Childebert. Incensed at this, Canao had the indis-
cretion in 559 to give asylum to Chram, the revolted son
of Clothair, This induced the Frank king to invade
Brittany. Canao was killed in 560, and the prince, Chram,
was overtaken on the shore, where he was endeavouring to
carry off his wife and daughters in a boat. The remorse-
less father had his son strangled, and the wife and daughters
burnt alive.
Conmor had extended his power over Domnonia, and had
taken to wife Trifina, daughter of a former Gwerch or Ere,
count of Bro-Weroc, on the British portion of the territory
of Vannes, in the hopes of extending his possessions in that
direction ; but for some unknown reason, in a fit of disgust,
he drove Trifina away, and she ended her days in a re-
ligious house. It was long after fabled that he had killed
her, and that she had been resuscitated by S. Gildas. The
pride, the tyranny of Conmor had raised him a host of
enemies. Judual, the claimant of the throne, was at the
Frank court.
Samson, son of Amwn the Black, and grandson of Emyr
Llydaw, had been brought up in Wales. Amwn desired
to return to his native land, and in company with his son
Samson started for Armorica. They crossed Cornwall.
Amwn, worn out with age, was left behind, but Samson
waited his opportunity and crossed to the mainland at-
tended by a large body of monks and fighting men. He
planted himself at Dol. About the same time S. Malo, a
son of Derwela, sister of Amwn the Black, and therefore
cousin of Samson, settled near by at Aleth, at the head of
another large body of men, partly ecclesiastical and partly
military. In fact, a host of adventurers, seeking a country
to conquer and appropriate, had joined these saints, who
asserted that they were going against an upstart who had
robbed them of their patrimony. With Samson was another
* >J«
*
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 105
first cousin, Maglorius. Conmor heard of their arrival
with dissatisfaction ; but they had made as yet no signs of
active hostility, and had posed as holy men seeking soli-
tude, and he therefore did not venture on attacking them.
Samson now slipped away, and went to Paris after
Judual. He besought Childebert to allow Judual to return
to Armorica, and by force of arms recover his principality.
The Frank king hesitated for a while, but at length con-
sented. Thereupon Samson conveyed Judual into the
Channel Islands, where they tarried awhile to concert
measures and to drill a body of recruits. Meanwhile Malo
and Maglorius and the disciple Mewan were acting on the
minds of the people of Domnonia, exciting them to revolt.
When all was ready, Samson and Judual crossed over,
mustered their forces, and marched against Conmor.
Three hardly contested battles were fought, and in the
last Judual ran the usurper through with a javelin. Thus
ended Conmor in 555. He had been a benefactor to the
Church ; like other British chiefs he endeavoured to con-
ciliate the saints to bless him and curse his enemies, but
he had too many saints allied by blood to those whom he
had supplanted to be able to maintain himself in the odour
of sanctity, and he has gone down in tradition as a monster,
and as the accursed of Heaven.
Judual was grateful to Samson for the assistance given
to him, and made him many territorial concessions. He
died in 580, leaving five sons, of whom the eldest, Juthael
or Hoel IH., succeeded him in Domnonia. Haeloc or
Alan was made count of Cornouaille. Of Juthael nothing
is known but his marriage with Pritella, daughter of Ausoc,
a petty chief of Kemenet Illi, that is, a district in Leon or
Finisterre running inland from Landillis to Landerneau.
It had been colonised, probably from Gwent, by some
saint named Illi or lUidius, of whom nothing has been
^ ^
1 06 Lives of the Saints.
recorded. The curious part of the story is that TaHesin
was then visiting Domnonia, and his advice was sought in
the matter of the marriage. Judicael died in or about 605,
and left several sons. Juthael was the eldest, his next
brother was Judoc, then came Haeloc or Alan.
Judicael was a feeble, amiable personage, very unfit to
rule, and at once his ambitious brother, Haeloc (Alan II.),
supported by his foster-father, Rethwal, resolved on seiz-
ing on the throne. Judicael was able to save his
life only by escaping into a monastery, and being shorn
as a monk. Seven brothers were murdered, one a mere
child. Some years later, 610 or 615, Haeloc was seized
with compunction for his crimes, converted by the words
of S. Malo, and he surrendered the crown he had usurped
to Judicael, who at once issued from the monastery in
which he had been hiding, and took to himself a wife. He
entered into an alliance with Dagobert, and formed a warm
attachment for S. Eligius and S. Ouen. In or about 640
Judicael resigned his crown ; he had spent so much of
his days in the monastery, that he pined to return to its
quietude. His brother Judoc refused the crown, and it
was taken by Solomon II. Whether S. Winnoc were a
brother or a nephew is uncertain. He died in 717, but
it is said at a very advanced age.
To return to Cornouaille. Budic II. had married Anau-
med, sister of S. Teilo, whilst he was in exile in Dyfed.
The Bretons say that he was a son of Cybydan, descended
from a colonist Ian Reith (Righteous Law), but he was
clearly closely akin to Hoel I. ; and when Budoc was settled
into his principaUty, S. Teilo came there to visit him, and
S. Samson met him and took him back with him to Dol,
where Teilo planted an immense orchard of apple-trees,
with grafts brought by him from Wales. This orchard was
called in the twelfth century " Les Vergers de Tielo et de
^ : »{,
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 107
Samson." It was on this visit to Brittany that Teilo
summoned his nephew Oudoc to accompany him back
to Wales to enter the religious life. Another visitor was
Gildas, who has left numerous traces of his presence, and
whose tomb is shown at S. Gildas, near Carnoel, in Pou
Caer. As already said, Macliau, bishop of Vannes, had
driven away Tewdric, son of Budoc, prince of Cornouaille,
but in 577 Tewdric returned, gathered an army, fought the
bishop, and killed him and one of his sons. The other
son, Ere or Gwerch II., retained his hold over Bro-VVeroc,
and he was not able to dispossess him. This Gwerch II.
was one of the ablest and most heroic princes of whose
exploits against the Franks record has been preserved.
Tewdric died about 586. Nothing further is known of
him, and with him ends the record of the princes of
Cornouaille.
But long before this S. Cadoc had appeared in Armorica ;
he was one of the most restless of the Celtic saints. Un-
happily his Life was not written till five or six centuries
after his time; but although thus lacking in historical
accuracy, it retains many features of great interest that
were clearly derived from earlier texts. He had visited
Ireland, Italy, and, if we may trust the legend, even Greece
and Jerusalem. He has left his trace in Cornwall as well
as in Wales. He went to Brittany to visit S. Gildas, and
he landed with a number of followers on an island in the
great bay or inlet of Etel, near Beltz, in the Morbihan.
There for a while he settled, and the islet bears his name
to the present day. He built a causeway from the islet
to the mainland, then his restlessness came on him again,
and surrendering the conduct of the monks to a disciple,
Cadwalader, he returned to Britain.
About 585 arrived a virgin named Ninnoc, at the head
of a swarm. She was a daughter of one Brychan and
^. . Ij,
1 08 Lives of the Saints.
his wife Meneduc, but not of the famous Brychan
of Brecknock. She had been baptized by S. Columba,
and instructed by an Irish bishop of the name of Gorman.
The fancy came on her to found a colony, and being of
royal blood, she was able to attract to her a large body of
adventurers, among them four bishops, a host of priests,
monks, virgins, and of non-professional saints enough to
fill seven large vessels. A chaperon to the damsel, a
married man, Gurkentelu Ilfin, and his wife, Gwenargant,
were engaged, whose duty it was to keep order among
this mixed multitude.
The seven ships came ashore at the mouth of the Laita,
that formed the confines between Cornouaille and Bro-
VVeroc. The lagoon took the name of Pyl Ilfin, and the
inlet was entitled the Lake of Lan-nennoc, from the double
settlement planted by the princess on the shore. Nennoc
established herself as abbess over a double community,
one of men, the other of women, precisely like that of
S. Bridget in Ireland, and of several that sprung up in
Northumbria under the direction of the great missionaries
from lona. In fact, Ninnoc in Cornouaille was the counter-
part of S. Hilda in Northumbria. A church was con-
structed in the midst, and the brethren set to work to
build little huts for themselves and the sisters around.
Nennoc took supreme control, but Gurkentelu was set to
keep order among the men. The writer of the Life of
S. Nennoc says that in his day the ruins of this curious
agglomeration of separate cells remained. Such a double
monastery was so inconsistent with the ideas of his time,
and the attempt to revive the institution by Robert of
Arbrissel bad led to such scandals, that the writer cannot
have invented the story, and knowing what we do of the
usages of the Celtic Church, we are aware that this was in
strict conformity with them. It is singular that the author
* *
of this Life has nothing more positive to say about S.
Nennoc after the construction of this double monastery.
No record remained of how it had flourished or gone
to pieces.
At Dol, Samson was succeeded by his cousin, Maglorius,
who speedily resigned and was followed by Budoc, who
was abbot or head of the ecclesiastical tribe till about 588.
Then came Leucher, of whom nothing is known, and he
was followed by Tighernomalus, who had the Life of S.
Samson written and dedicated to him. It is deserving of
remark here how closely connected with the names of these
Breton princes and saints are some of those found on the
Cornish inscribed stones. At Madron is a stone to Rivalus,
son of Bran Cunovalus ; at S. Cubert is one to Conetoc,
son of Tighernomalus ; at Endellion is a stone to Broegan,
which is the name of the father of S. Nennoc. Add to
this the fact that the large majority of the saints of Corn-
wall are saints also of Brittany, and I think that the in-
timate relationship between Armorica, Cornouaille, and
Domnonia, and insular Cornwall and Devon, becomes almost
certain, and that the conjecture of M. le Moyne de la
Borderie that Cornouaille was occupied by Cornavii from
near Newcastle, or even by those from Shropshire, resolves
itself into a phantom of the brain.
At Aleth, S. Malo was succeeded by S. Gurval, who is
supposed to be the same as S. Gudval. There is, however,
a difficulty in the identification, as one does not see how
the r was changed into d. Gurval is said to have remained
at the head of the establishment but a short time and then
to have retired into the forest of Brecilien, and to have
settled as a hermit at Guer, where he founded his llan.
Gudval is said to have come from Britain, Britannioe fini-
bus, and he founded a monastery at Loc-Goal, near that of
S. Cadoc, near the lagoon of Etel. There a mound is still
*-
no
Lives of the Saints.
-)^
pointed out on which he lived, and there also is his fountain,
and there also a chapel dedicated to S. Bridget, and near
it an inscribed stone bearing the name lAGV.
Another colonist was S. Ternan, whom the Bretons call
Tenenan. He was from Britain, probably from Gwent or
Morganwg, and he was great-nephew to S. Paul of Leon.
It was therefore quite what might have been expected that
the kinship should receive recognition, and that he should
be elected ecclesiastical chief of the ecclesiastical settlement
at Leon, about 596, and he died about 623.
The last immigrant was S. Ywy, a disciple of S. Cuthbert,
an enthusiastic adherent of Celtic peculiarities, and when
these were giving way in Northumbria he went to Armorica,
where he hoped to practise them without molestation. He
founded a good many Hans; but we have only a meagre
sketch of his life and labours. For some time the history
of Brittany becomes most obscure ; a few names come up,
but none of consequence till about 824, when a man of
remarkable force of character and original genius appears
on the scene.
This is Nominoe, whom the hostility of some of the
monastic writers has induced to depreciate as having been
raised from the plough tail to be a duke and king. This
is most improbable. He probably descended from the
royal house, but from that when reduced to its lowest con-
dition of powerlessness.
It is unnecessary to detail his history here.
Made Governor or Duke of Brittany by Louis the Pious,
he remained faithful to that feeble prince so long as he lived ;
but when the empire broke up with the death of Louis in
840, he resolved on making his country independent. He
had for some time been preparing his measures. In one
Convoyon, a humble monk, he recognised both daring and
patriotism, and he supported him against the nobles about
*-
-•*«
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 1 1 t
Redon, where Convoyon had settled, even against the
bishop, and further even against the royal authority in-
voked to crush him. Convoyon, won by the zeal where-
with Nominoe took up his cause, and sharing in his ambition,
was prepared to act in concert with him, and that heartily.
Nominoe succeeded in annexing both Rennes and Nantes
to Brittany, and in establishing the independence of the
peninsula. Then he turned his attention to ecclesiastical
affairs. Some of the bishops were Franks thrust into
the Breton sees, and more or less tainted with simony.
Nominoe, on the accusation of Convoyon, summoned them
to give an account of themselves, and he sent them to the
Pope, and demanded their deposition. But he became im-
patient at the tortuous and grasping methods of the Roman
court, and he summoned a council in his own land, and
called the bishops before it ; they acknowledged their guilt,
and laid down their staves and rings in token of surrender.
Nominoe now increased the number of sees, appointed
hearty Breton-minded men to them, and elevated Dol to be
the primatial, archiepiscopal see at the head of all the rest
in Brittany proper.
Nominoe advanced into France, defeated Charles the
Bald in Anjou, and had got as far as Vendome when he
was carried off by sickness in 851.
He left a son, Erispoe, who succeeded him ; but his
elder brother, Rhiwal, had a son named Solomon, who re-
sented his exclusion from the throne. Erispoe agreed to
become the vassal of Charles for Maine and Anjou. Per-
haps this did not please the Bretons, for an insurrection
broke out, headed by Solomon. Erispoe was obliged to
fly for refuge to a church, and there Solomon killed his
uncle at the altar, in 817.
Solomon was now sole king of Brittany, but after some
time he committed the indiscretion of resigning the crown
_^
1 1 2 Lives of the Saints.
to his son Wigo. This was in 857, when he was old and
weary of government. This at once excited the ambition
of Pasquitien, count of Vannes, who had married the
daughter of the murdered Erispoe. He raised the standard
of revolt. Wigo was taken and killed ; Solomon fled for
refuge to a monastery, but was induced to leave it, and
was put to death by his eyes being put out with red-hot
irons in so barbarous a manner that he survived it only
two days.
It has been supposed by some that this Solomon is the
saint of the name who is venerated in Brittany, and un-
doubtedly the two have popularly been confounded ; but
Solomon the saint was known and esteemed holy in Corn-
wall as well as in Brittany, and in the tenth century there
existed no such connection between the countries as could
explain this usurper and murderer having been in Cornwall
and there founded churches. Solomon who is saint in
both countries belongs to the fifth century.
Let us now take a glance at the ecclesiastical organisation
in Brittany for three centuries.
It has been already pointed out that a settler on coming
to Armorica established his colony as a plou or plebs or
tribe. Each head of a household was granted a tref, that
is to say, a habitation with land around it. In Cornwall
the thousands of trefs indicate such settlements, but there
the title plou has been lost, as several pious coalesced.
They coalesced also in Brittany, and became poris or pagi
or regions. In Domnonia there were six of these —
Pou-Castel, Pou-Goelo, Pou-Tregher, Pou-Penteur, Pou-
Dour, and Pou-Racter. In Cornwall the ancient pagi are
represented by the deaneries, in Wales by the cantrefs.
When the religion of the new colony came to be set in
order, then the secular princes gave up land here and there
to the saints on which to establish a Han or a monastery.
^ .(j,
-*
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 1 1
0
The llan was usually only a church with some land about
it ; glebe, for the maintenance of a disciple of the saint, a
priest to minister to the people; and as already said, the
llan was very often not at all close to the secular settlement,
as each tribe, secular and religious, lived apart on their
own lands under their several chiefs.
The ecclesiastical settlements were not solely monastic.
There was a monastic core to each, with the abbot and his
disciples as heart and ruling power ; but there were under
him bishops and priests and deacons, not monks, who might
be married men, and very often were so, and in Wales so
they remained down to the twelfth century. Sometimes,
by no means always, the authority as chief of the tribe was
united to that of bishop ; but this was arbitrary only, and it
did not enter into the ideas of an early Christian Celt that
a bishop ruled by Divine commission ; he regarded him as
the official retained by the ecclesiastical chief to propagate
the sacred orders. There were many bishops, for by a
curious misunderstanding of the rule that three bishops
should unite in every consecration, the Celtic consecrator
always ordained three bishops at a time, and single or
double consecrations were regarded as irregular, if not
unlawful.
With respect to the married priests, there remains a curious
letter addressed by the three bishops of Tours, Angers,
and Rennes to two priests of the Britons, reproaching
them for irregularities committed within the confines of the
diocese of Rennes between 512 and 520. It must be
premised that just as the Britons had encroached on and
occupied a large portion of the territory of Vannes, so that
bishop Regalis there complained of being enveloped by
them, so had they encroached on the territory of the
ancient Redones, and had occupied the whole upper por-
tion of the country from the sea ; in fact, had taken posses-
VOL. XVI. H
^^-
*-
-*
114
Lives of the Saints.
sion, ecclesiastically and civilly, of a portion of the county
and diocese of Rennes. Very naturally the settlers liked
to be ministered to by their own clergy, in their own tongue,
and according to their traditional usages. This drew forth
a letter from the three bishops, Licinius, Eustochius, and
Melanius, to the priests Lovocat and Catihern. They said
that it had been told them by a priest, Sparatus, that they
not only had female companions living with them {con
hospitce), but that they even allowed these women to minis-
ter the cup in communion. They therefore warned them,
and supplicated them to desist from these abuses.^
We can by no means be sure that Sparatus told the
whole truth, that, in fact, he did not exaggerate in the
matter of the administration of the chalice. What he heard,
no doubt, was that these priests lived with their wives ; and
the great rub was that they were acting and ministering in
the diocese of Rennes without leave of the bishop, and
without any idea that any licence was necessary when
ministering to their fellow-Britons.
We find nowhere else any trace of the Celtic clergy allow-
ing women to act as deaconesses at the altar, but we do
find that they claimed the right to be married ; and indeed
Sulien, one of the most notable of the bishops of S. Davids,
who ruled from 1071 to 107 6, and again from 1078 for ten
years, was a married man, the father of four sons. From
1076 to 1078 the see was occupied by Abraham, who set
up a monument to his two sons. Rhydfarch, son of
Sulien, succeeded lis father in 1089, and was himself a
married man. But it was so also in the Anglo-Saxon
Church ; the canonries were held by married men, till Dun-
stan swept them out and planted celibates in their room.
It was so also in Brittany. Macliau, Bishop of
Vannes, was married, and in spite of the condemnation
1 Duchesne : " Lovocat et Catiherne," in Rfyiue de Bretagne, 1885.
y^-
BiHttany^ its Princes and Saints. 1 1 5
of the Franko-Gallic bishops, continued to live with his
wife. A certain Tetbald, son of a priest named Loscoran,
was elevated to be bishop, and married the daughter of
the Archdeacon of Nantes. When old, Tetbald resigned
the see to his son Walter, who became bishop in turn, and
Tetbald took the abbacy of S. Melanius. No doubt these
were scandals, but only possible because the prevailing idea
in the Celtic Church was not in favour of celibacy.
We must look on the Celtic abbey as the head of the
district or province ox pon; under it were numerous clergy
not monks, who were sent to minister in the several churches,
and many lay colonists who were granted farms, as also serfs
who worked under them.
A monastery whether in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, or
Brittany had the same character ; it was surrounded with
an embankment or wall, and within, of wood usually, were
the church and the refectory and the kitchen. Each monk
occupied a separate cell, that is to say, a circular hut of
stone or of wood with conical roof. On a mound or in a
commanding elevation was the bee-hive hut of the abbot.
In the island of Lauret, near Br^hat, off the Brittany
coast, are remains of the monastery of S. Budoc.^ It con-
sists of the ruins of an old church with its sacristy ; of a
much later church of SS. Simon and Jude, characteristically
dedicated to apostles " known of all men," and not to any
of the saints who lived and laboured and died on the spot ;
also of a cemetery in which the old solitaires were laid ; and
of eight circular huts, five of which are ranged in a row, all
but one of which are ruinous, but one remains intact.
There were formerly many more, but as the whole area
of the island has been tilled, only a few have escaped
demolition.
On another isle in the same archipelago, the Isle Modez,
1 Plan and map are given in De la Borderie's Hist, tie la Breiagne, vol. i., 1896.
-*
*-
ii6
Lives of the Saints.
-*
is the bee-hive hut in two stages, believed to have been the
abbatial cell of S. Maudez or Mawes.
It is solely on islands and in remote spots, as also where
wood was scarce and stone plentiful, that such relics remain ;
elsewhere they have disappeared.
Outside the enclosing rampart were the lay folk, and in
many monasteries no woman was suffered to set foot
within the enclosure.
The monks were the educators of the young men of the
plon. These were sent to them to be instructed in religion
and in literature.
The life of the monks was one of great severity. From
the Life of S. Brioc we have a sketch of the services. " At
fixed hours they all assembled in the church to celebrate
divine worship. After the office of vespers (at 6 p.m.) they
refreshed their bodies by a common meal. Then, having
said compline, they dispersed in silence to their beds. At
midnight they rose and assembled to sing devoutly psalms
and hymns to the glory of God. Then they returned to
their beds. But at cock-crow, at the sound of the bell,
they sprang from their couches to sing lauds. From the
conclusion of this office to the second hour (8 a.m.) they
were engaged in spiritual exercises and prayer. Then they
cheerfully betook them to manual labour."
Some enthusiastic solitaires lived apart in cells in the
woods or on the moors called " deserts," and only occa-
sionally joined in the worship of the monastic choir. Some
in their fervour delighted in plunging themselves to the
neck in water to recite their midnight psalms. S. Meven
one night was passing to his cell when he heard a gurgling
voice and chatter of teeth — it was mid-winter as well as mid-
night— and he went to the river side to discover the cause
of the noise, when he found there his disciple S. Judicael,
with teeth chattering with cold, muttering his orisons.
-*
*-
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 1 1 7
-^
The food of the monks was scanty, one good meal a day,
and that in the evening, was all, and yet in some monasteries
they were allowed a fortifying soup in the morning as break-
fast. They ate bread, eggs, fish, seal, and porpoise ; honey
was allowed, also beer, and cheese was a condiment to their
bread. In the Life of S. Sampson we hear of their having
some cordials supplied. '• It was customary (at Llaniltyd)
to squeeze out the juice of certain herbs cultivated in the
garden of the monastery, and to mix this with the drink of
the monks, by pressing it through a little pipe into the mug
of each, so that on returning from singing terce (9 a.m.)
they all had this mixture served them by the butler."
From this centre the whole ecclesiastical government of
the tribe proceeded. There were Hans and Iocs, or churches
and chapels, to be provided with clergy, and to this the
abbot saw ; and each llan or loc stood in its own glebe, with
about it sufficient estate to maintain the ministering clerk.
Terrible was the vengeance of the abbot on such daring
tierns as ventured to encroach on the property of his
monastery. The cartularies of the monasteries, the legends
of the saints, are heaped up with examples of the horrible
deaths of such as invaded the lands of the Church, or carried
away the cattle of the saints. One might almost suppose
that the main solicitude of these abbots was to accumulate
and preserve landed property and live stock ; but it must
be remembered that many of the grants of repentant princes
and desecrators of the sacred rights are mediaeval forgeries,
composed at a time when the greed after land was an en-
grossing passion in the hearts of monks, and also, that it
was a necessity of the time and conditions of social and
political organisation for the abbots to have their patches
of glebe everywhere, and that for the sake of the souls of
the poor they were compelled to do battle for the bits of
land on which their churches stood.
We have preserved to us a form of cursing employed by
the church of Aleth against such as invaded its property.
It is found in a MS. of the end of the eighth or beginning
of the ninth century, but is doubtless older.
After a warning to the wrongdoers to withdraw and make
amends, the abbot-bishop proceeds against the violators : —
** If they do not hasten to make amends and give that
satisfaction to our mediocrity which they have offended,
then we smite them with eternal malediction, and by a
perpetual anathema.
" May the wrath of the Sovereign Judge fall on them.
May they lose all right in the heritage of God and of His
elect.
" May they be excluded in this world from the com
munion of the faithful, and in the world to come from
that of God and of His saints.
" May the devil and his angels be their companions, and
the torments of the avenging flame and eternal sobbing be
their lot.
" May they be held in execration in heaven and earth,
and when this life is ended, become the prey to the anguish
of hell.
" Cursed be they in their houses, and cursed in their
fields ; cursed in their food, and cursed be the fruit of
their beUies. Cursed be all that they possess, from the
barking dog to the crowing cock. May theirs be the
destiny of Dathan and Abirom, whom hell swallowed up
alive ; that of Ananias and Sapphira, who having lied to the
Apostles perished on the spot ; that also of Pilate, and of
Judas who betrayed his Lord.
" May they have but the burial of an ass, and may their
light be put out in darkness."
To superstitious, half-civiUsed Celts such curses pro-
nounced by the successors to the Druids and medicine-
*-
■*
-*
Brittany, its Princes and Saints. 1 1 9
men whom their forefathers had revered from time
immemorial produced the greatest effect. They quailed
before them, and rarely did these curses fail in their effect.
A chief who braved them trembled with fear if he caught a
cold, sprained a joint, fell from his horse — he thought the
anathema was beginning to work. The greatest monsters,
murderers of brothers and usurpers, cringed to the saints,
and bought their benediction by grant of lands.
In the study of the history of the Church among Celtic
peoples the records of the colonisation of Armorica from
Britain are of great importance, as they show us the pro-
cedure which doubtless was followed everywhere else, and
which indeed was that adopted by the Brythons when
they first came into Britain, and when they were pagan.
Then, also, we can hardly doubt the Druids were accorded
their glebes on which to settle, and then also the people
was divided into secular and sacerdotal tribes.
What we find in Christian Cornwall, Wales and Brittany
was but the adaptation to a new religion of an organisation
of hoar antiquity.
So far we have seen how Brittany was occupied from
Devon and Cornwall and Wales, perhaps also from other
parts of Britain, but there can be little doubt that there
were also settlements on its coast from Ireland. We know
from the Cambrian Annals that the Welsh coasts were in-
fested by Goidel Picts, and Welsh history records occupa-
tions of Gwynedd, of Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Breck-
nock, by these invaders. In Cornwall also they took
possession of the Land's End district. It would have been
strange had they not also made descents on the Armorican
sea-board. When we find, as we do, in Brittany, that the
cult of such a purely Irish saint as S. Bridget is widely
extended, and that Kieran of Saigir is there found as Kerian,
the Goidelic form of his name, as well as under the
*-
*-
1 20 Lives of the Saints.
Brythonic form of Peran, we may be confident that there
was an Irish element in the population as well as one that
was British. S. Brendan, S. Senan of Inniscathy, S. Tigher-
nac, to whom S. Bridget stood sponsor, have all left their
mark in Brittany, and Breton tradition gives an Irish origin
to several of their local saints. The presence of saints of
one nationality in a district very generally implies that they
followed their countrymen, who had come without pacific
or evangelising intent. They attended on them, much as
missionaries now go in the track of colonists of their own
race and tongue.
^ ^
PEDIGREES OF SAINTLY
FAMILIES.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
I. The Holy Family {conjecturat) 123
ROMAN.
II. The Flavian Family 124
III. Family of Constantine the Great . . .125
IV. Family of Theodosius the Great . . . .126
GREEK.
V. Family of S. Basil and S. Gregory ok Nyssa . 127
GALLO-ROMAN.
VI. Family of S. Sidonius Apollinaris . , .127
BRITISH,
VII. Family of Cunedda, fugitives from North Britain . 128
VIIL Family of Brychan, Goidelic conqueror . . .129
IX. Table Illustrative of the Gwent-Breckon Saints who
settled in north-west Cornwall 130
X. Family of Llyr Merini and Caradog Freichfras 131
XI. Family of Caw, fugitive from North Britain . . .132
Xli. Family of Geraint, Prince of Devon . . . .133
xiii. Family of S. David . . t,^
XIV. Family of S. Gwynllyw, S. Cadoc, and S. Petroc 135
122
Lives of the Saints.
PAGB
XV. P'amily of Coel Godebog, of SS. Deiniol and
Asaph 136
XVI. Family of Armorican Fugitives, S. Samson and
S, Padarn 137
BRITTANY.
xvii. Family of S. Melor, and SS. Judicael and Winnoc
{^conjectural) 138
xviii. Family of S. Tol de Leon 139
FRANK and BURGUNDIAN.
XIX. Table of Merovingian Kings.
XX. Table of Descendants of Chilperic I
XXI. Table of Burgundian Kings .
XXII. Family of S. Arnoald
XXIII. Family of S. Amalberga.
XXIV. Family of Charlemagne .
XXV. Family of S. Gregory of Tours
XXVI. Family of S. Gertrude of Hamage
xxvii. Family of S. Gertrude of Nivelles
xxviii. Family of S. Waltrude .
XXIX. Family of S. Odilia.
140-41
42-43
144
145
145
46-47
148
149
150
151
152
ANGLO-SAXON.
XXX. Family of the Kings of Kent . . . '153
XXXI. Family of the Northumbrian Kings (Bernician). 154
XXXII. Family of the Northumbrian Kings (Deiiian) . 155
xxxiii. Family of the Kings of Mercia . . . 156-57
xxxiv. Family of the Kings of East Anglia . . 156-57
XXXV. Family of the Kings of Wessex . . . .158
o
d
O
,
lU
c
s
•
II
^
ri
C
— c
<
<i,
(o
' — '
>^
^
1— 1
II —
s
c
rt
<
^
[^
>
S
II
-1
t/1
O
— s
1 — .
w
X
H
.
- cj O
«
xi
Cl.
- 1)
c
a,'
2 3
ex,
o _
O rt ^ t— ,
CO
i/ > ^
OJ y; ^
- S; G X
I— >^4^
ui 0^ ""^ ro
"S '^
o ^ o .
'k6 ■* On cl, S
" 2 in
15 ■«
Cfi
S X ^ O t^ ►"
-rt X
ri
s
o d
K 1-
X ri
1)
(U
M
,
^^^
C
HH
•
ri
t^
>
-4
ro
w
>
,
X
>
<u
-C
•
-;<!
^
E 1^
o
c«
<1)
u
o
■*
(U
Tt-
J3
.
u
t/1
a;
<!
i
•<j
CO
123
e
o
v>
'^
a
ii->
Si
vo
«-■
CO
^
M
^
53
s
^
^
^
s
S
<u
cq
U
'*«»
OJ u
1
S.2
o o
ft. .5?.
^
n o
c^
.a o
k
ii
3)
.^.S
>^
•s^
J
" ti
o ^
d
t-H
o.—
S
§-<>
3
<
u) >0
S
P^
CT3
0) OJ
H
:z:
<!
ass
J3 ^
>
3
tn Tj-
<:
3 .
J
-1
■§§
P^H
1^
E"g
w -^
a
feE
as
K
o
H^
H
■^?
Pt,
Ti c
O
.eI
w
w
0) w
C*:;
•a
O
.s
t-H
*-■
Q
§
a
u
a
►— (
'3
12;
>—i
Q.
<
1
%
1
O
CO
(4
o
a,
si
a,
3 tn h
•5 rt F,
— t^'
^ O 0)
o
s 1)
fe
w On
II'
- a. . b c
« >• 2 3
3
i «^ o --'
u
3
J3.i
II
II
VO On
5 <.ti Q
1
Ti. H. Sabin
Consul, 82
killed, 94.
= Julia Sabii
daughter of T
■3 =U<:
i. Fl. Sal
ill Biitai
ct of the
:d, Dec.
H'ai:^
0 0) ~
> t-^
__.^
r^-
m
w
111
SlO ON
iJ .-a
3
S ^'
d O
o
Q
3
c
— [/i ■
rS
en
(U
>
o M
D 3
rt i>
124
m
rt .5.
<
O
w
H
W
:^;
►—I
H
<
H
o
u
o
>
<
-•S
h 2 <
w 3
3 .
Q
e c
rt o
c ^
•5..;;
C rt.S
rt — r;: .
t^ rt ui CO
.2 s .•
.2 con!
<
ca
3
;^
Xi o
U "
!5 ^^ .
.2 o<o
w J- o
« C02
c w .2
oJ CO c
- 5 3 <>'
3£-§ ;;^"
,^ £?;? o rt
rt T3
1) o
73
.-00
c
0)
c
^
XI
u
3
c
n
0
s
0
t:
"^ to *-• S >^
ro 3 4:: 5
O <q CO o M i/i •-
C C ^ '-' rt O CO
- •■00
tn to CO
CO CO
i '^'^
: to CO
D
3
3 O
•- CO
o ^
MD CO
CO >-." S
. a. CO o 3
CS
3
0)
re
a
o
U
CO
CO C
CO rt
:^3
3 c^ 3:
— ' rt
CO
.- CO •
0^0
^ N O
LO
to
d t>. o CO
-_, O _ CO
t; T3 CO—;
S S - " ^
C. ctf I. c t^
- 3 £ u
■g > .-t; -
C«^ O 73 Jt
t^ . <^ OJ ^
- in <n ^ ^
3 <u .
O <: Q->3
'-> B
W
^ M covo X ■;:;
^ CO CO CO a; 1/)
3 CTl.
3 c> ^- ro
o! ";'o CO
•S ^' I- CO
Cli • IJ .
E
3
t/i
o
0-
1-t O /-. [tI 1 T . •-'
U <^ W -y' s s
3
«-•
t/5
C
o
U
t__«
>o
fv
CO
3
c
CO CO
0
b/3
u
-f
3
3
0
co
rt
<
s.^-
{/I
tv
s
0
-«i
VI
Ut
V
t/1
-3
-o
13
>
0
,
a.^
^o
" !/)
tfl
«
I-
■o
"t-
CO
U
^
«-J
^
^
t
3
.3*
0
u
3
t/5 ui
laS
IV.— FAMILY OF THEODOSIUS THE GREAT.
Theodosius,
Master of the Horse to
Valentinian I.; beheaded
in Africa, 376.
Eucherius,
Consul, 381.
(i) Aelia Flacilla
d. 386.
I
Theodosius the Great =
b. 346 ; Emperor, with
Gratian, 379 ; sole
Emperor, 392 ;
d. 17 Jan. 395.
(2) Galla, daughter of
Valentinian II.;
m. 387, d. 394.
Honorius
Arcadius,
b. 377 ; made Emperor
by his father, 383 ;
Emperor of the East,
395 ; d. I May 408 ;
ni. 395, Aelia Eudoxia,
daughter of Bauto the
Frank. She d. 404.
I
Honorius,
b. 384 ; made Emperor
by his father, 393 ;
Emperor of the West,
395 ; m. (i) Maria,
daughter of Stilicho ;
in. (2) Thermantia,
daughter of Stilicho ;
d. Aug. 423.
Galla Placidia,
Regent during the minority
of Valentinian III.;
m. (i) Alhaulf, King of the
West Goths ; he d. 415.
m. (2) Constantius,
Emperor with Honorius ;
he d. 421. She d.
27 Nov. 450.
Children by Constantius.
Aelia Pulcheria,
l>. 399, d. 453 ;
m. the Emperor
Marcianus.
She d. 457.
Theodosius II.,
b. 10 April 401 ; Emperor
of East, 408 ; of West, 423-425 ;
d. 450; m. 421, Eudoxia
(Athenais), daughter of
Leontius, Professor
of Rhetoric.
Serena
d. 408.
Stilicho,
d. 408.
Licinia Eudoxia,
b. 422 ; tn. 437 ;
m. (2) the Emperor
Petronius Maximus ;
d. 455-
Valentinian III.,
b. 2 July 419 ;
Cassar, 424 ;
Emperor of the
West, 425 ;
murdered, 16 March 455,
I
Maria,
m. 398, the
Emperor
Honorius;
(/. before 408.
Thermantia,
m. 408, the
Emperor Honorius,
who divorced her
the same year ;
d. 415-
Placidia,
wife, 455, of the
Emperor
Olybrius ;
d. 472.
Eudoxia,
m. Huneric, son of
Genseric, King of
the Vandals ; d. 484.
Had issue, Hildericx
who d. 533.
126
GREEK.
v.— FAMILY OF S. BASIL AND S. GREGORY
OF NYSSA.
= S. Macrina the
Elder, Matron.
S. Basil, = S. Emilia,
d, circa 330. d. circa 340.
I
S. Basil the Great,
b. 329 ;
Bishop of Neo-
caesarea, 370 ; d. 379,
S. Gregory,
Bishop of Nyssa, 372 ;
d. 394.
S. Peter,
Bishop of Sebaste, 380;
d. 387-
S. Macrina
the Younger, V.
d. 379-
GALLO-ROMAN.
VL— FAMILY OF S. SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS.
Apollinaris, Prefect of Gaul under the
Usurper Constantine, a convert
to Christianity = . . .
Avitus
b. circa 395 ;
Emperor, 455 ;
d. 456.
A lady of the = ApoUinaris,
family of
Avitus.
I
Agricola.
Ecdicius,
Defender of
Auvergne
in 474.
Papianilla,
m. circa 452.
I
: S. Apollinaris
Sidonius,
b. 5 Nov. 430 ;
Bishop of
Clermont,
472 ; d. circa 488,
Prefect of
Gaul, 448-49.
S. Aprunculus,
Bishop of
Clermont,
circa 488 ;
d. 491.
S. Isichius,
Bishop of
Vienne,
circa 476 ;
d. 494 ;
m. Audentia.
I I I
Alcima. Severiana. Roscia.
Apollinaris, S. Apollinaris, S. Alcimus
Bishop of Bishop of Ecdicius Avitus,
Clermont, Valence, Bishop of
515; (f- 515- 499; d. 522. Vienne, 494;
d. 517.
Avitus, Archdeacon of Clermont in 560, belongs to the family,
but where to be placed is uncertain.
137
Fuscina.
.tJ 9 " « o .
-p, "P "1 -a
(U E ra O
in*0
w
Eh >
O 4-.
H
PS
pq
o
t;
Ph
><
►J
o
Pi
S
w
K
H
O
o
<
Q
Q
W
u
o
l-H
:^
I
aggg
O O ij u
■" " u '•■
II U C S^ti)
.-2 " K " "1
«J3 M ..
5 O -w
°^ CI
c u £
u
.0 9~z
"1 1
,- S c « "; _- u
I— I rt -_, 3 jj ni bo
4J *-- u C *
O
-a
II
»> > ™ 00
'' cfe fo
= „w
, o
■£ M -
c
0
rt-a
;h
h «»
— 1)
II -
t> «4
s
e
r
-
0°
w
s
H
-Q
.0
^
'S
_o
^
1 „- -
i^
0
<!, 0 0
— "t
.«.tJ c
6
C/3.
4or
u.
J3
0
C/i
0
^
-S.E^.
Il-
0
£
iS
goo
ea
k-
0)
0
>>
b"^
~S
>>
0
c
0
u
n-
— « ".5
3
c
n —
3 J?
w^ >«
>j
II-
II —
II —
T3
t3
V
1)
•a
•a
0
0
«
)-r
— «
*J
o
c
V
e
2;
-o
^ o-«
II —
-o
^03 _
in V 2
»
•fc/
^i
J3->;
•W
rt
II-
_ c
St3~
a|
0
-3
t/ig
rt
u
t.
s
w
c
3
- 3
j3
Pi
a
c
V
S
0
-0 rn
^ u
w
^^
.2S> .
c c 0
.S
'5
3 S>-
biS o
"O.ii *
k. o JJ
V I. Si
S
o
Q
II —
o
2
•a
rt
w
~ o
Q
■a
O.
o
«)
W^j
10
Ml
-■5
3 ^ 10
138
7i
c
o
1
H
t-l
Pi
rt
a.
R
M
o
SIS
S
•y
^
^
rt .
OT
c ^ *^
Si
S
c,^
■n o
-J!
(4 n
o a
i^
>
•J
O
ffi
H
W
oi
W
H
w
d
H
[I.
o
6
O
o
c -^ 3
O
o
<5
C5 '^
II —
3
c c
„ o lu
H
U Si
c i! i;
<->
o*-*
rt c
:?:
^T.
pq K
<
3
<5
>-
P<
w
fe
o
>*
hJ
(— (
>crt
f^
<!
p^
g Mo J
-- il en
c .
Pi
^ ^^ — M
•p u .5 S ^ o
3 CQ
11 —
• w
^O
o
s
o
_ u
J3
M
c
-to
T3
1)
o
s'g O - ON
-Cil H B ^ 2
o
i^U
c
c«
1 Ji
O b/) .
■.a 2^
1)
±^-a
W
U
^ O o
— .So
§58
S'^ ?i
to
_ o
c
U
s
<u'
0)
- X3 -c x: c
' a> 5 3 r: -•-'
-5 O rt CQ Ph
"Q pi
o •«
Cm --
VOL. XVI.
139
w
CO
HH
e<
1— 1
W
CO
)— 1
W
>
r'
a
H-J
ciq
J
ffi
>
H
^
Ph
P^
C
o
CO
u
PU
»— *
c-i
ffi
CO
CO
<
iz;
W
o
ffi
E-H
H
<
Pi
h4
o
W
12;
C^
iz;
w
HH
iz;
H
W
<
CO
P^
CO
H
r .
CO
»— t
hJ
<
hJ
CO
1— (
W
J
m
<3
H
><!
o
c
o
PQ
en
> . -d
^^ ^
bi
aj .
t3
■5 >,
(U
— >,-3
r- 3
o
U
c«
<u
-l-l- O
O K— ( • —
— bii ' .3
C/)'— .
Tj
ji
^ o
ill
C in t)
a> c c
> 0) C
— S 1 ^
Vj >— ^
o^
rt
ledwyn.
Clydog
Clether
S. Cleer.
c/^^-H
^ OS
(n
>%
•a
rt
— O
c
o
in
T3 O
ri ^
■a
c«Q
-o
2
o
ci
(fi
O O .
Sc-S
c.O'j:
'72
o
^ bi)
F -^ c
73 O
a
. O
<J CO
O ">
— B-
ID
U
Ok <*
CO
- ri
U.
B
O
" a
>^
U
J3
.a - c
o ^ o
cc •- —
cat;
o
:?;
m g
c«
c c 5
— B 2 o
Of
11-
x:
- ^
o
U
o
u
c rt >^
— == Ss
C/2 w<~
o o
c
c -.^
c c
- > 4)
> HI
o°^
•a
-o c o
CO o
S ^
c o
ri 4>
u
O V
.S c
D
5 S f«
O '- O
73 „ -5
o ri
•a .2 ■§
^ Cn ^^
^ 9,
>H ;$ U
DO
u 12 I-
o^ ;:
CD.
•C S C
o en M
>%d43
Vh i-i .
CQ C1.2
O >-• u)
*-• *-•
_ !> .a
.S-S M
.n o'C
tn (n .^
C •*»
o-d —
D o .i^
<i 1) u.
^■^ D
> »'
fC3 «•
130
C/3
<
P^
U
w
o
o
G
<
12;
w
>
o
I— (
<
Pit
X
o .
" iH G
liii
II
II
^-^ "
•« 1
f5i t3X)S>,
■TD J3
D -^
r^ V Q
II
-J3 U
fli
Urien
King (
cly
circ
ynfarch
of Strati
surnam
or "th,
-6
U t.aT
i-T
U
c/5;S-6
t^-u
C O rt
IS
<-
a>
C)
(U
G
;2;
43
<:
:;
3
o
c
u
■-S
o
3
w
3
V
H
'-' 'O -n 'T "
C ,^
to 2
c .^
«
■^ V
V o a
>- P 3
ir-'C o
pq
o
,
Vh
>
G
r
o
#
tn
>%
o
3
CQ
II
C
>-»
k^
<
-a
C
rt
W
B
<(U
\o
E
"-1
f*
oj
.>^
s
•o
1)
6
<
in
a
b/J
- G
H
b
d
O
HJ
r^
c
s
U"!
r;
ri
,
nr
0
u
O
c
o
(X)
h— 1
•^
-a
-a
3
O
13
t3
T)
(U
(1>
O
C4
'a Z-. <*- "^ d
T3 — O -VO
— .X TO ^H ^-.
^o H 'o 2
^•^
.^
1-1 ^ O
- S U) G
VO
II-
pq^i
bjo
a
o
o
<u
-XJ-
_ o
>%
^
U
U
o
yj
g"
rt
-G
•rt
U
CO
131
in
S
o
S5
in
t^
en
<
CD
H
73
^H
<u
ei
C!
fQ
O
o
f^
£
o
V)
QJ
ta
,o
►1
•J
1!
HH
cd
s
43
<
e
P=M
1-4
2
><
iij
IS
o
o
•t3
W
s
c4
H
&
H
c
1^
rt
K
J3
H
oq
w
<^
W
o
H
^
^
U<
o
c
u
rt
?;
O
[/7
oj
o
>
in
K*
s
<
c
o
oi
p^
*->
o
0)
rt
>
■a
J
t— 1
:^
S-
<
g
p^
1)
X
.5 X
u, 4) ^
^■5:5 —
c E'3
c
o
W3
"= !3 n
O rt
■n cS
(n u
rt w O
<u o ™ u g
•«•
O 3
l-c ? *- tV
u
C O T3 o .-*.
, (/) , .« k^ '^
c
o «
Cfl
rt
U
o" rt
in e ■"
<
V)
u [g O G >,(3
'— 5 «<
T rs t")
_ 1-c
■a o t;,
4<i o a
■n OJ S»
u C .h
■ y-= 3
.S c .
>- n!:=:
o c ^
> °.
o
U)J3 O
c
o
Xi
r
•o
■a
>^
- c -
c
U
D
— E
t^
•3 ^
•s c e V
- fe P .b
c "
o
V C
■a " o
- 1-. ."^
U
CO
; c !2
■U =
c«
bfl
"oJ
en
'fl
o
s
o
c
•a
(Tl
O)
Oi
11)
•a
-a
c
3
(n
CO oi
o" y
CO <
O U
CO
J3 O .
a; 0) "^
OhDh
CO O
C
o
tn
T3
C
&
a
3
XI
o
132
fe
u
I— (
O
flH
X
.1
•a
a
a
O
>
. o o
S£ " u
.5 S-S
CjC "
^ -i» '^^
e 1> — •
Sag
■J, 5 "
1) " "
o
0)
I- y "^
i; c u
U .—
71 »- *_»
■" ^ W7
«)"— cj
*-» u o
CI u
.2 E c
2 c •
3 " "
11 i3 t,
C c
O o<»
Of J CO
.- J, C
n 5 3
"1 t/i rt
<u
lo-.^
rt O CiJ
1-. u-j^
o^ -
3— -
H-: oU
S rt C M3
^'"2 §
♦-•CO
i2 S > .
«
u ^
c o
E a
c
o
S3 .
Q
(73
c
§ O
s
o
"3
izi
o
II
o O
. O oj w
... <u-S o S
cp g J to
_ a; iw •-" '■-■ -
O^ OJ a; i_
o ;=!■-; o
a. -^
(U
-§ o
o
73
ID
• C!
JP OJ 1-"
ri d g
fc..
73 j3
- <u
iJC^ Sod
u. bo-n .
■ c
u O >
u
. ^N
in
t-4
^c
•a f^
0
>^ ■< rs.
Mordre
d. circa =
1 ~
H 0
II —
U
<u
d
■;3 .
c
<
1
Ichm
wain]
ra rS
•
^0
0^
X
3 "1
. (U
5 ?
^1
S3
•«■
73
c
^d
T3 . d
.^ d c-^
73 >CQ '^
2 >n" o
■ 10
d G ;:; — '
<
d ^ <u S
73 0*^0
d «
O r- O -^
<~ oU >->
--^ I o -«■ S,
^73-3 d
II
c
o
73
0
?;
N
r/i
T3 in
II -
;?3
01
Q.h
•n
C
''S-
d
73
II
d"
HH U Vivo
fe bxJ-h d
^
I— I d
(U is
d d
— dU
S o i;
O d
733
o
o
^ — vO
LO
■J 5j
^ — d
-UU S § ^
t— t
»o
HH
0
jj
tv
d
.
d
c
0
a)
0
Q
d
Vb«
0
0
S3
<1>
%
0
c:
R
Ui
da.
133
7}
(3
.a
Q
>
<
Q
o
>^
l-H
<
X!
>,t„ ^ u tn
C o ^ CT3
O MO g g
■^ .s s
M -
rt Om O
MS 4,
3 • - ^
a
c
w
^9.
o C ^
II
M
c
-o
U)
CJ I— I
rt ° rt
O 11
-C O
>o
o c
c
rt
.2
D.
>
ir>
43
a
0
m
t/i
0
-3
H
■ ^ Cl. > \rt
> O K
134
I
o
o
Pi
CO
Q
<
O
Q
<
U
O
I— I
X!
■S C
S a;
a &
, bo c!
' C bo
55
■bo
<u .
H v; o
.S ^
•§^
O "^
c '
a
e V
V
Pi
^
<4
c
rt
^ .
>,o
^ o
-CQ c
•a o o
rt u U
Ofo'o
CA) rt bo
-a c
bo
u bo
is ^
p! w d
.^ (U to
"c •!. -Ji
>, o "2
2 bo-vT
73
5t^
C
-E
U
id
boii
— '<^^-
a, J-
2 S
w o
S >- S
u. D a
Perffe
daught
Lleudd
1
euno,
d Abbey
log Fawr,
circa 650.
II
P3 1" fc
— "^ c
-2 g.-^"
. Hywg
monk a
ancarva
^50 •-
0 \0
C/J -3
J
5:
1-1
c '3
o
CO
PQ
o
c«
>■£ ° ■-
■^ o .ti o rt o
Ox> E "-^ >: Si
c !3 .art
■= Ecrt U
o
w
t/1
^ rt C! m
_ d 5 ■£ ^
->-^-- o
_o o
- o c
o
E.
O
Of
r^U O
a
73
rt C uj
- C ^ O
2 s §
U E-d
(U
c«
o ° > "O
-51 il
C/3^-t .
135
<
en
<
en
Q
<
O
Q
en
O
>
>
X
i
c
Cli
^
-a
a
u
&
u-l
■a
o
oi
u
V-
OJ
*-»
(^ j3
M
3
rt
•o
II
t/)
(U
w
13
t^
o
^
O
^
ta
o
u
d
o
O
^
O
-a
c
u
OJ
o
U
CJ
c
o
0}
^
•T3
MH
W
ni>
■O 0)
II
-"SI
>
^J'^
rt
!^
:=
O
X
3
0)
c
_ o -
U
- 1 ^
•a
—J —.2 ■
O
OJ
o
to
II —
c
- >^
U
oi
g
■<«
""rt
H
CO
a
^ .
go
bo
3
•t3
■5! a
-o i-
O ^
CL,
C/2
X3
- 3.h!
^ CJ (A
rt O «u
73^C/3
§C
J?
- Ji 0
1
Asa
ofL
irca
S.
ishop
c
bfl
u
a
03
o
3
C
OJ ^
_cS o oi
;_, C bo
c«
_ o ■
CCQ «
-^
o
'C
u
o
. bfl
.oS .
cCQ i5
Q ° .
ca; o
xi
o c
10
.S J3 V
C«.
0)
p
136
<
P
<
Q
12;
O
cw
O
>^
>
X!
O D,
w 1/1
o
£3
-■§
IS
•a
<u
e
3
ci
C
<-?^
0)
c
I— ^ ^''^
nj . o
C3 C O .
t c! i- ^
f/5 .MS
0) X!
CUXl
°-^
-g^
1"^?
^-s^
II
c
rt
Wl
o
E
hr
i3
o
■o
o
•*
«
E^
CO
UJ
•'a
C
<
o «
be is
c
t^
•«■
bo c
*p
rt
3
M
4;
o
B
d
c
J3
u
>
re
c
- 3
c«
w
_ >^
X!
to
_3
(/5
D-- -a
d ci3
o o <u
. V
Q
w
0) ..
go— d
g^ll
o
o
irn
esi
orn
nba
?^
■OdUiS
CO
o<
2*^03
- d C vj
. o '->
-^
oP u
.E o S'
•T3
__ c *-* -^ ^
CO o -Q «*
CO "1 "« o
ffl ""
• II
»j bo
o. c
d O bo
C
>^ i> 5 d
o"5co^
tu
d '
T3
T3
d C
o ,d
Su
_ d
c<co
G
ir d
X! . b
hobo 2
3-^ b
d ;3 d
d -^ <^
3^ t*- O
"t^ —
^■=5 3
'-< d-
bOv4_i a>
>- O 1^
CJ c
II
d 5 o
o-S
d
to'i£-£
c c J? aj
d d S'"
d
s 1
bo bo 3 •
3 ^ ■ ■
CO
53 <o
^ _•
o >*- o
•r o 00
- bo „ to
§^-«*
cog
(U
o << >c
. o ^
n
5 "^ 3 kT ►*
1.^ t-«
> S w C ? .
cfl u < OQ ^
o
u
137
%
EH
H
i-i
«
o
o
Q
Q
<
w
ij
»-;
I— I
<^
O u
U «
o
u
H
H
O
3
C
<
II-
C4
>.o
o
O
H
O
O
I— I
Q
W
(U o -^
rt o
II-
— " oS
.Hurt
C u 3
n c o
u
X
a bi)
2^
TO (- C i„ .
Mu f o 2
c
T3
- rt
O
tfl
) = T3
5£55§.Srt-i;
Scj; e-o E<5 ..
ffi 3 fe ceo m
" 3 U rt ■"
II-
n
ti
- 3 O^
O-Sj.
c _,
?3.ii
g^ Pi
^ O
rt
H
3 4j -T »^
O Q,.2 •"
t-CL, >- C -
O, 3 O-O
6 o a c.^
o c •- o J^
° rtv. o
II
*i S o
o
B
o
V
o , .3
rt V
. U
tn
CO
O C
•- o o
> ^ «) •-
f* o == "
<
J3
<4
H
_- — -ai-^
c
-a a iT o" . «
M 2 " ^t/5 2
c« Ei:^u^
w ^=:->3
II
"5
a.5 .
3 O 3 a> r^
_-r, o -^ rt>:
J2 " :fl ° •-
■^PJ c E o
CO';
>
• -■>. T3
O V V
y O^ *
3 u <- O
I/) ^
> n o S o
OJ „ ^ ^- *"
- o 13
rt u
-Hpq
•^ e X
S 3 2
O o i>
j3h5
t«<.
S ■"
4
o
o"°-'s
■ — ■ jj TO
2 = g
u
m
—; •— -u Q
— < u 4> >>
o p. b/; u
rt 3 *-
J3 c rt_
" bDo..-a
u 3 ji^i i; t;.
o o ^ y M
-.5 "2-^ $ c
> (U biO ^-o —
■ OJD 3 - 5f
<« " o^rt "
ja o
II-
E n o
^-O " Q.
< MIJ3 E
3.t; rt (
nQ
Isma
:iple
Davi
TJ 3
rt M
(/) =
3
-"2
, m .
rt
o
C/3-^C/3
in
II —
i
. Tyfe
M. at
andeil
S. Canna
Elian
Pilgri
'^ J
^-s
Cfi U
Maw
lornw
Finga
••^.S-o-
"O O u
* o t>
5 c >,
H"=^
p, «
rt«5(3
u 5
"- E
> o
o .«
V o
O ° 3
•a ■" 1)
-3 0-3
a
o
o
I-i o
P3.
a> 3 t^
S.2 ""
y j; "
PL," 8.
in
II ""? s,
" 2-^WS-b
_"-a rt o ° .-1^
3 u_^ c o „
<" c ir
=:2s
!~-3
S"<3
138
o
w
Q
►J
O
CO
O
>^
-1
w
1) lU
CO, •
<1
W
H
O
w
w
o
I— I
Q
>
O ^
rt c^ !' •-
^ a, c o
v'
" tuO
3
nt
o
•a '-i
-I
c!
g cj c r; OS""
1, aL ^ „
^ '" U o k G
CO
'O ,
CO
i^ " c ^^ o
o o-c -^
•*~» I/}
«39
FRANK AND
BURGUNDIAN.
XIX.— TABLE OF MERO
Note. — The numbers before the children refer to their mothers.
Theodoric I.
(illegitimate),
King of
Rheims, 511 ;
d. 534-
Suavegotha,
daughter
of Sigismund,
King of
Burgundy.
Ingomer,
b. and d. 494.
Theodebert I.
king 534 ;
d. 548.
= (i) Deoteria.
= (2) Wissigarda,
daughter of
Wacho,
King of the
Lombards.
I Theodobald,
King, 548 ;
d. 555-
Vuldetrada,
daughter of
Wacho, King
of the Lom-
bards ; she m.
afterwards
Clothair I.
(i) Authar r= Theodelinda,
(2) Ago, King
of the Lom-
bards.
d. 627.
Chlodomer,
b. 495 ; King of
Orleans, 511 ;
d. 524.
Theodowald,
murdered,
530.
(2) Chramm,
d. 560.
w. Chalda,
daughter of
Wilichar,
Duke of Aqui-
taine, d. 560.
(3) Gunthar,
d. before 561.
(3) Childeric,
d. 561.
Clotswintha,
m. Alboin,
King of
the Lombards.
(i) S. Bertha,
tn. S. Ethelbert,
King of Kent.
I
(2 or 3) Berthe-
fleda, nun of
Tours.
Guntheuca,
afterwards wife
of Clothair I.
Gunthar,
murdered,
530-
S. Clodoald,
d. 560.
(3) Charibert,
King of Paris,
521 ; d. 567.
m. (i) Ingo-
berga, d. 589.
m. (2) Mero-
f^ed.i.
m.. (3) Marco
vefa, sister
of above.
m. (4) Theode-
child.
(3) Guntram,
King of
Orleans, 561 ;
d. 593-
(2 or 3) Chrote-
childe, nun of
Poitiers.
(i) Gundobad,
d. 570.
(2) Childebert,
d. 570.
(3) Chlodomer,
d. 577-
(3) Clothair,
d. 577.
(3) Chrodechild.
140
VINGIAN KINGS.
Merovaeus =
I
Childeric I.,
King of the
Franks, d. 481.
Basina.
Clovis I.
b. 466, King
of Franks, 481 ;
baptized, 496 ;
d. 511.
S. Clothild,
daughter of
King Chilperic
of Burgundy ;
■m. circa 493 ;
d. 540.
Audofieda.
m. Theodoric,
King of the
Ostrogoths.
Albofieda.
Lantechilde.
Childebert I., =Ultrogotha.
King of Paris,
511 ; rf. 558.
Clothair I.
b. 500, King
ofSoissons,sii,
and
Orleans, 524,
and
Metz, 555,
and
Paris, 558 ;
d. 561.
(i) Veneranda
(concubine).
m. (2) Marcatruda,
daughter of Duke
of Magnachar ;
d. before 577.
tn. (3) Austrichilde,
maid of
Marcatruda,
d. 580.
(3) Chilperic I.,
King of
Soissons, 561 ;
d. 584.
tn. {i) Audo-
vera, d. 580.
m. (2) Gal-
swintha,
m. and d. 567.
m. (3) Frede-
gund,
m. 567, d. 597.
I
See Table
following.
I
(3)Sigebert I.,
t>- 535.
King of Metz,
561 ; d. 575.
m. Brunehild,
daughter of
Althanagild,
King of the Visl
goths ; d. 614.
Guntheuca,
widow of
Chlodomer.
m. (2) Chunsena.
m. (3) Ingunda.
m. (4) Aregunda,
sister of Ingunda.
m. (s) S. Rade-
gund, daughter of
Berthar, King of
Thuringia; in 550
nun at Poitiers ;
d. 587.
m. (6) Concubine.
m. (7) Vuldetrada,
widow of Theode-
bald, divorced and
m. Duke Garibald.
Chrodehild.
tn. Amalaric,
King of the
Visigoths in
Spain.
S. Theodi-
childe,
V. Abbess of
S. Pierre le
Vif at Sens ;
d. 28 June
circa 520.
Childebert II. -
b. S7i, K-ing of
Austrasia,
575, and
Burgundy. 593;
d. 596.
Faileuba.
Ingunda,
d. 585. .
tn. Hermenegild
son of
Leovegild,
King of the
Visigoths.
Clodoswintha,
betrothed to
Reccared I.,
King of the
Visigoths.
r " I
Theodebert II. = (i) Bilihild, Theoderic IT.
b. 586, King d. 610. b. 587, King
of Austrasia, =(2) Theodehild. of Burgundy,
596 ; d. 612. I 596 ; d. 613.
Merovaeus.
= The granddaughter
of .Sigismund,
King of Burgundy.
See Table XX.
<4I
XX.— TABLE OF DESCENDANTS
Note. — T'^^ numbers before the children of Chilperic
and Clothair refer to their mothers.
(5« Table XIX. p. 141).
Childebert II., = Faileuba.
King of
Austrasia and
Burgundy.
(i) Theodebert,
d- 575-
Theodoric II., =
b. 587, King of
Burgundy, 596;
d. 613.
Sigebert II.,
murdered, 613.
Corvus,
murdered, 613.
Childebert,:
d. 613.
(1) Merovaeus,
murdered, 577.
m. Brunehild,
widow of
Sigebert,
killed 614.
I I I
(i) Clovis,
murdered, 580.
(i) Basina,
nun at Poitiers
in 580.
(3) Riguntha.
Gisela, = (3) Charibert II.,
daughter of
Amandus,
Duke of
Gascon y.
1
King of Aquitaine,
murdered, 631.
Bozo,
Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony,
d. 688.
S. Oda,
daughter of
Childebert,
d. T22,.
Phigberta,
(Hugbern),
daughter of
Childebert.
I
Bertrand.
Eudes,
Duke of
Aquitaine,
d- 735-
= Waltrude.
S. Hubert,
Bishop of Li^ge,
d. 727.
I
Clovis II.
b. 634, King of
Neustria, 638 ;
sole King of the
Franks, 656 ;
d. 656.
Clothair III.,
King of
Neustria,
651-670.
I
Theodoric III.,
King. 657;
d. 691.
Clovis III.,
King, 693 ;
d. 695.
Childebert III. ,
b. 654, King of
the Franks, 698 ;
d. 14 April 711.
= Dagobert III.,
King of the
Franks, 711 ;
d. 715.
f
Theodoric IV.,
King, 720 ; d. 737.
M»
OF CHILPERIC I.
Chilperic I., =
= (i) Audovera,
King of
deserted, 567 ;
Soissons,56i,
murdered, 580.
d. 584.
m. (2) Galswintha,
married and
murdered, 567.
m. (3) Fredegund,
first concubine.
then wife, 567 ;
«'• 597-
(3) Clodobert
(3) Theodoric, (3) Clothairll., = (i) Hildetrude,
murdered, 604.
m. (2) Beretrude.
tn. (3) Sichilda
l>. 565. d. 580.
b. 582,
d. 584.
b. 584, King
of Neustria, 584 ;
(3) Samson,
of all the Frank
l>- 575. d. 577-
kingdom, 613 ;
d. 628.
(3) Dagobert,
b. and d. 580.
I
(i) Merovseus,
d. 604.
S. Bathild,
d. 680.
Dagobert I.,
King, 622 ;
d. 638.
(i) Ragntrude (concubine).
m. (2) Gometrude, sister
of his stepmother,
Sichilda.
m. (3) Nanthild.
»i. (4^ Wulfegund.
m. (s) Berthild.
I
S. Sigebert III., = Hymnegild.
b. 630, King
of Metz, 638 ;
d. 656.
= Clothild.
ChildericII., =
King, 657 ; sole
King of the
Franks, 670 ;
d. 673.
= Bilichild.
Dagobert II., =
b. 652, King
of Metz, 655;
murdered, 678.
: Mechtilde.
w * m -
= Chilperic 11
(Daniel),
King of
Neustria, 71C
d. 720.
1
S. Irmina,
nun at
Horem,
; d. circa 690
1 1 1
S. Adela, Sigebert, Ragutrude
nun at d. 678.
Horem,
d. circa 695.
Childer
King
Frank
depose
last of
icIII., = Gi
of the d.
3. 743 ;
d. 752:
Mero-
sela,
nun.
vingian
kings.
'43
XXL— TABLE OF BURGUNDIAN KINGS.
Gunthicar, =
King of
Burgundy,
Gundicar,
King of
Burgundy,
d. 451.
Gunderic,
King of
Burgundy,
d. 473-
Chilperic.
Ricimer,
conqueror
of Italy.
I
Gundobald,
King of
Burgundy,
d. circa 5 1 6.
Clovis,
King of
the Franks,
b. 466,
d. 511
Chilperic, =
killed,
477-
killed,
477-
Gundomar,
killed,
477-
Gundegisl,
killed,
477.
r
= S. Clothild,
m. circa 493 ;
d. circa 540.
I
2 sons,
murdered,
477-
Sedelinda,
nun.
A
See Table XIX.
S. Sigismund, = (l) Ostrogotha,
King of
Burgundy,
d. I May 524.
daughter of
Theodoric,
King of the Goths.
(2)N.
I
Gundomar,
King of
Burgundy,
killed, 532.
(i) Sigeric, killed
by his father.
Swavigotha.
m. Theodoric I.,
King of the
Belgic Gauls,
d. 534-
144
XXII.— FAMILY OF S. ARNOALD,
(This Genealogy is not certain.)
Pepin
of Landen,
Mayor of Palace,
d. 639.
S. Bodagisl,
later monk,
Glandieres,
d. circa 588.
S. Itta.
I
Grimoald,
Mayor of Palace,
d. 656.
S. Oda,
afterwards
Abbess of Hamage.
Ansbert
S. Arnoald, ;
later Bishop of Metz,
d. 640.
S. Aigiilf,
Bishop of Metz
d. circa 600.
Doda, later nun
at Treves.
S. Gertrude of
Nivelles.
See Table XXVII.
S. Begga, later
Abbess of Ardenne,
(/. 17 Dec,
7th century.
S. Ansegisl,
d. 685.
Pepin of Herstal,
See Table XXVII.
S. Chlodulf,
Bishop of Metz,
d. 694.
XXIII.— FAMILY OF S. AMALBERGA.
{2) Witgere, Count =
in Brabant, afterwards
monk of Lobbes.
= S. Amalberga,
nun, Maubeuge,
d. \o] -cXy circa 690.
= (i) Theodoric,
; Lord of
: Austrasia (?).
i
Pepin
of Landen.
1 .,
S. Ermebert. S
Bishop of Cambrai
and Arras,
d. 24 JuneciVfa 713.
1
. Rainilda, Virgin,
d. 16 July circa
690.
1
S. Gudula, Virgin,
d. 8 Jan. circa
710.
S. Pharaildis,
Virgin nun,
Ghent, d. circa
680.
VOL. XVI.
145
XXIV.— FAMILY OF
Note. — The numbers before the children of
(i) Rotrude, =>
d. 724.
(2) Carloman, Duke of
Aiistrasia, Swabia,
and Thuringia, 741 ;
monk of Monte
Cassino, 747 ;
d. 17 Aug. 755.
Hiltrude, = Odilo, Duke
d. 754.
of Bavaria.
/K
(i) Pepin the Short,
Duke of Burgundy,
Neustria and Pro-
vence, 741 ; Mayor
of Palace, 747 ;
King of the Franks,
751 ; d. 24 Sept. 768.
Carloman, King of =Gerberga.
half Aquitaine,
Burgundy, Pro-
vence, Languedoc,
Elsass, and
Allemannia, 768 ;
d. 4 Dec. 771.
I
Pepin,
b. Ts<),
d. 762.
Adelheld.
Gertrude.
I
B. Charlemagne,
b. 2 April circa
747 ; King with
Carloman, 768 ;
sole sovereign of
the French king-
dom, 771 ; crowned
Emperor,
25 Dec. 800 ;
d. 28 Jan. 814.
(i) Pepin
(3) Charles, (3) Rotrude, (3) Pepin,
(3) Louis I. the = (i) Irmengard,
the
b. 772, b. 775, b. 778,
Pious, b. 778,
d. 3 Oct. 818.
Hunch-
d. 4 Dec. d. 810. King of
King of
(2) Judith,
back.
811. m. Rorich, Italy, 781 ;
Aquitaine, 781 ;
daughter of
Count of (/. 8 July
crowned
Welf, Count
Maine. 810.
Emperor, 28 Oct.
of Bavaria,
1
816 ; King of
819;
Abbot
Italy, 818 ;
d. 19 April
Ludwig,
deposed, 833 ;
843.
d. 867.
/
\
replaced, 834 ;
d. 20 June
840.
Arnulf,
1 1 1
(i) Lothair, = Irmingard, (1) Pepin, = Ingeltrude. (i) Louis the = Emma, sister
a
b- 795>
daughter of b. 803,
German,
of his
natural
King of
Count Hugo King of
b. 804,
stepmother
son.
Bavaria,
of Tours, Aquitaine,
King of
Judith ;
814;
15 Oct. 814;
Bavaria,
d. 31 Jan.
King of
821 ; d. 13 Dec.
817 ;
876.
Italy, 822 ;
d. 20 Mar. 838. /
\ King of
divides the
851.
East Franks,
kingdom
843;
among his
d. 28 Aug.
sons, and
876.
d. 2g Sept.
1
855. J
I
/
k
/\
146
CHARLEMAGNE.
Charles the Great and Louis refer to the mothers.
Charles Martel, = (2) Swanhilda, = (3) Gunnehild (concubine).
Mayor of Palace
daughter of =
= Other concubines.
toDagobertlll.,
Theodo
bert,
Chilperic II.,
Duke of
Clothair IV.,
Bavaria ;
retired
Theodoric IV. ;
in 741 to
Abbey
d. 15 Oct. 741.
of Che
lies.
1
Bertha or = Gripho, S.
Adeloga, S.
1. . 1
Remigius, Bernard, =Gundlendis,
1 1
erome.
Bertrada, killed, V
. Abbess 1
Bishop of Count.
daughter of
—
daughter of 753. ofKitzingen,
Rouen,
Adalbert,
Hiltrude.
Count 8th century. d. 19 Jan.
Duke of
—
Heribert of
771-
Allemannia.
Landrada
Laon,
t/. 12 July
A
783.
See Table.
(i) Himiltrude (concubine).
S. Gisela,
(
S. Isberga,
(2) Desideria, daughter of
*• 757 ;
nun at
Desiderius, King of the
Abbess of
Ybergh ;
Lombards ; divorced
Soissons.
d. circa Boa
(3) S. Hildegarde, d.
30 April 783.
(4) Fastrada, d. 794.
(5) Liutgard, d. 800.
(6) Regina (concubine).
(7) Adeltrude ,,
(8) Gerswintha „
(9) N.
1
(3) Lothair,
(3) Bertha,
(3) Gisla.
(4) Theodrada.
1
(6) Hugo,
(6) Drogo,
twin
afterwards
—
Abbot of
Bishop of
brother of
nun at
(3) Adelheid.
(4) Hiltrude.
S. Quentin,
Metz,
Louis ;
Centulle.
—
d. S44.
d. 8 Dec.
d. 780.
»«. S. Angel-
bert. Abbot
of Centulle.
d. 18 Feb.
814.
1
(3)Hildegard.
855-^
I
Hartnid.
Nithard.
(7) Theodoric, (8) Adaltrude. (9) Ruodhaide.
monk, d. 819.
(i) Alpais.
m. Bego,
Couni of
Paris.
(i) Hildegard.
m. Count
Theodoric.
(2) Charles the Bald,= (i) Irmentrude.
h. 13 June 823; (2) Richild.
Duke of Swabia, 829 ;
Kingof Neustria,843 ;
and Aquitaine, 852 ;
and Lorraine, 869 ;x\
and Italy, 875 ;
crowned 25 Dec. 875 ;
d. 6 Oct. 877.
Gisela.
tn. Eberhard,
Alargrave of
Friuli.
147
O
E-
O
PL,
o
1— I
pq
>
O
o
w
p^
o
XI
XI
Ji <
l-i
o
c
w
wi
D
OJ
>
7^
O
O
rt
o
k-^
^ p^
3
*— ■
Q
o
d
c
c
1-' >»H M • —
;2; cu
. O
N
« ■^"
B
a
<
XT, JL
^ o .
0-- '*"
w
■ c
s
o
- 0)
o
Il-
ls
rt
u
o
il
l-J
O
o
o
o
c
- 1>
1-1
o
c
o .
CAl
i/3
o H
OS
' t^ XT,
- ^ O ^' ^
oo^^i^
co-S
o g,:^ o
/2 -
m-^
m
148
o
<
o
w
a
p^
W
O
CO
O
I— I
«1
>
X!
"C o
C 00
11 rt
J2
o
0\
T3 U-, ,
O 1- o
H
u i: " «J
II —
S
o
c5
-"(3 !-•
>3
-2 -XI
11
o
-^ O
"Sod
Or o
O - '/> 1)
— c iJ a
o
00
rt •-- -'O
S) '^ ^ y
"«■
■*
f^l
•-^ ^*-
I-'
O
r o
^
t-^
o -S
>,
. ii o
rl
3 J3
, —
"^-4
rt XI
• •-1
l<
§<
u-1
Cfl
«->3
1) >-
"^ J) '•" .
<
II
3 .y)
bjjC u o
ueu
• cs i; w ^•
rt
1)
'■-^ 1
o
OS2,
«
c
rt
s
<^ '^
5 II rt
w
c3
C
rt
q:^«
1)
3 " tJ3'~^
±: c c ?*
cpq r;
O
149
c/5
o
w
Q
H
O
CO
o
I— t
>
X!
X
u o
rt — ir>
— ' jj vO
• 0) ^ "^
^-S «ao
-^ r-
2 2"^"
II
II
1m
>>
rt ^ r
1-1
k- ;:i 1-1
rt .
^ '^ s ^ ••
3 ^
E . -" tloo
- 3"
-- c <y <^ '■'^
V, '^
« '>^
I.- o
N C
•^
o
'4-
D
<.J
rl
T)
rrt
rt
Ol
vO
O
£
**-
O
^
>i
O
C3
<*- --^
-a
C en
II
o
O
II
-:2
N
, <D ii 5 u C
cfi <; <; t^-5
1 r>.
O
c
-i. l>
rt C
O .-H
-=^^
^
^"f^
N C
^ r^ 1-.
^ -^ s
"^^ o
II —
3 ° o
__r
-= SO
■<j-
■>4
-T3 1)
Cfl
o
bO
- O
Q
6^
150
Q
H
<
en
O
>
X!
m
O
V a
.J- <v
r! ■" fsj
u ^ o
M l-t 1-
73"
us
04
s
--- "5 '"'
S =
3 "!
— eg
pq M.2
d O
1> n -.n
rt rt 5
aj
H
J3
^^»
•:°3
" i> S c;
Hon
■u S c
*" j-T rf
-^ c g S
ra O rt 'r*
11 1^
-111 s
rt ,<u jj"
> - o^
..Su
13 rt
2>^ tn
CO
B
O
>^ oo
O 143
aj
Ui
o^
Ui
J2
<
<:
a>
C
3
O
en
1)
>3
U
01
c
3
^-<^ "5
- C uT
is o t>
^ m C
3 - S
c c c^
3 3^
o
3
- c
3
hi
II
O
Cfi
rt N
•2 y"l^
J3 ^ ■"
a
'So
V
bo
3 •
._ 5j "^
:^ o
1) . .
vn
■*
VO
c
1^
<!-*
t
c
Q
>^
3
C/3
1— ,
VO
T3 1^ --^ *J
cl o S -
■ o JJ ja
ISI
I— I
o
CO
o
C3
fcfl
1)
■c o
M o
c
^
<
•HS
fe
4 °
,
3
X!
Q
»— 1
!^
X
W3 .
1 — .
1!
tn
tf>
rJ
in
w
_;
**^
'c
O
c
rt
OJ
u^
_lf
p
<
^ in
fciJ
- 3
tS
b
3
SI
tn
rt
w
-*-»
l-«
v:
^
t-^
trt
t/>
o
c;
1)
^
Q
<
m
c
^s
'to
^
^
t^
>
ci
<i
n
<
tn
to
-o
c
1>
'C
c
3
C
II
Ml
O
c
o
*
t/)
11
^
c
3
o
U
kfl
TS
rt
C
u -
1m
1)
«
- C V3
JS to
Htn
. ^
<;
II —
11
b tn
d
PQ 2
3
O
o .
COO
rt
^
5 o .
<
o
c
<])
o
X
rt
Q
V5
t/i
»
^
cToo
152
rt
V
H
O
o
I— (
H
O
>^
I— I
H
Z
t— I
<
en
Q
>^
o
f4
O
O X
o
T3.S j3
o
rt
5o^ .
X
1
Eansw
Abbess
"olkesto
d. 640
X
c/i ^
X)
to
"O
0
■;::
4_>
(1)
0
x:
u
0)
rt
■11
w
t3t3 I
T!
c
rn
C
rt
2
c/)
W > 1
0
U
II
_
c
(1)
11
-JJ
•^
>o
<v
I*.
VD
\j_l
w
tin>3 1
c
c«
^
-c > O
■^ o «
*^ -r u.
I/! C
O
rt
O — 1 is
r- 0) U 5
:r: j2 rt ^
i:d
-:S o M^
2
1- rt c
U
<u XI b/3 rt u- ^
C/} b/) cx; o^
t3 <;
o bo ■«
'^5
rt
>
ri
-a j3
1)
L-.
u
u
0)
F
r1
U
XJ
>>J
W
•y
o o
Men
- o <u
u X> c .
rt ^ tL
W< rt
. fc
^ CO ">>c,
C a > in C
1- 'H O to ■♦4
4J^
1) O rt 10
I— I I—.
rt -H
HX
C/5X
rt 0
•^r'
S.s."-
rt>
rr* -,> ^
^ Hx
KP5 <U
2 XI
^x
D g
..'•*-'
X."^ ^.-
!r)
OJ be c ^
(-^
X3 c <U\o
-0
^s^s^--^
. rS^
<A J3
3
:S ^
rt -S 0
■2 , ^
a^^
OJ 1 0)
bfl S «
— — rt G
•^ *^ "0
• rt
"^ 73
3
c
2<" .
^"
& hn <J
0
lere
Kin:
Mer
. 0 .
rt 73 0)
r&
3> '^
11
1^ o-i5
Mrt 0
*3 ;n >-
enbur
mnev;
ess of
er, 671
0
•-0
<
So-9 c
■«■
. 0 2
fc
(«
•si 8
•T3 r.
0
•ss^
0) lU
>>
bs
-^.^ g
Ethelr
M.
Ethelb
s
J3
•a
5
w
VO
0
0
M
•3 0 k;
X3
« M
<
>S3
>«
m
<
Q
IS
pq
d4
pq
o
o
[In
H
1—1
CO
Q
:z:
>^
o
i=i ^.^
2°
- rt
CO
I
i-n
o
- o
o
a;
1)
■^ f? -i Ji
< 5PW
rt
3
rt
o
rt
b
rt
^
j:
■*
X!
in
t/:co
W
JD
c
vo
^ -o
•Vf
C/J
<
o
^
ij-i
TJ
o
1)
n
r;
S
rt
t/)''3
w
3
rt
W
c«
-a
II
o
— in rt
- C VO
rt .
^
_w
■ o
in y
• - M
^^ rt-
I rt ^-M t,r-i
•— "1^ *4-i
"3 vo
. I
B
1)
3 O-
Ul
S
"P XT,
.to
c
rt J
Ul <D
3 <"
<u
^ z
Q
c
r^
14
II
-3
II
)— (
v^
2
tf c
"rt
n3 ^
N
S
3 rt
M-
•^^
<o
"u
m r^
1
^
M
c
^3
^
^
t_
-n
<;
u
'^
rt
^ 2 £
ri
bfl
W
t/).vj
CO 3
8 °
ba
'^■~ '^
-S^'S
•v _ u
a: rt 1— 1
^ TS '^
O ri
O)
s*
'^ ,
IS
;t
--a d
Ichfrid,
ted with
ler in the
m, 658 ;
yneburga
er of Pen
of Merci
0
'V
. b/5.S
en
c
^ S^
c(
]m
t3
154
>«
H
CO
<!
><
Q
<
a!
Q
w
p4
o
o
I
ro
C
. bjO -^
CO C vo
W
>
H
<;
CO
Q
iz;
<1
>^
o
P4
ui
I
-_ IT)
w ^
fcfl
W
n?
J3
TJ
:/5
r^
lU
bfl
HI l-i
•5 bc
m
w ^_
— II
^ '^
CJ
8«
1>
.- HJ
^
<u
X
ri
bJO
^ ■
• . t*H ..^ ..v
S i) o rt >,
ti <v
J2 XI D "o -^
<v ^/
■y w ^2; .H ti
,'^ "*-•
^^•S £^
W o
II
ith his
fter his
626;
of Be
n at W
II
tfl
c
3^
:^ = -S^oa
a^
:5-i2^ ^«
'S^
•T3 ^
w
CAJ
— OWc«
*— ..,'— N,— ^
HH rj ro
II
1)
bn
o
W
o
00 .
C3 1^
cn
'^ -C vO
.s ^
e
O tf .
C tn
b/3^
S^.5 a.
rv (U "
W bjo^
■■S:5
X
X
.i2
^
15s
XXXIIL— THE ROYAL AND SAINTLY
I
Pearla,
first Christian
King of Mercia,
King of the Mid
Angles ; d. 657
Wulphere,
King of Mercia,
656-675.
S. Ermenilda,
daughter of
King of Kent ;
Abbess of Ely.
S. Wulfhad,
M. circa 657.
S. Rufinus,
M. circa 657.
Coenred,
King of Mercia,
704 ; monk at
Rome, 709.
Merewald,
King of
Mercia.
S. Ermenburga
or Domneva,
Abbess of
Minster ; d. 690.
See Table XXX.
S. Werburga, nun at
Ely ; then Abbess
of Weedon, Trenlham,
Hanbury, and Ely ;
patroness of Chester ;
d. circa 699.
XXXIV.— THE ROYAL AND SAINTLY
Etheiburga
(illegitimate),
Abbess of
Faremoutier.
Concubine = Anna, King of the
East Angles,
635-654-
F ~
S. Sexburga ;
tn. Ercombert, King
of Kent ; foundress of
Sheppey ; second
Abbess of Ely, from
679-699.
See Table XXX.
S. Etheidreda ;
m. (i)Tombert, Prince
of the Giwirians ;
m. (2) Egbert, King
of Northumbria ;
first Abbess of Ely ;
d. 679.
* According to Bede she was wife of Edelhere,
156
FAMILY OF MERCIA.
Pybba or:
Wibba.
Penda, King of Mercia, =
626-655.
S. Kyneburga,
Abbess of
Gloucester ;
m. Alchfrid,
King of
Northumbria.
I I .
S. Kyneswitha,
sought by Ofla,
King of Essex,
but she per-
suaded him to
become a monk.
S. Wilburga ; m.
P. of Surrey, and
with whom founded
the monastery of
Chertsey.
Ethelred,
King of Mercia,
675 ; Abbot
of Bardney,
704;
d. 715.
Osdrytha
of North-
umbria.
Eadburga,
Abbess of
Dortmuncester,
d. 680.
S. Ceolred,
King of Mercia,
709 ; became
monk at Rome;
d. 716.
FAMILY OF EAST ANGLIA.
Hereric = Bregeswitha.
See Table
XXXII.
Ecgric = Hereswitha,*
a Northumbrian
Princess.
Edelhere,
first husband.
S. Wilhburga,
nun at Ely,
then Abbess of
Dereham.
r
Aldulf,
Kin'i of the East
Angles, 663-713.
S. Sethrida,
Abbess of Brie.
I
Ethelbur<:a,
Abbess of
Hackness.
I
Wetburga,
Abbess of
Hackness.
Eadburga,
Abbess of Repton ;
afterwards of Hackness.
and he was father of King Aldulf by her.
157
w
m
in
W
o
I— (
<
<
en
Q
<
o
p<
I
>
X
X
i
— ♦J
u
CO
■a t
•a
a
■^ ^ S!
fai
en -
c c
en
- [/) .
C lU M
O .U)
rt V- J,
1
gene
d not
S-^
K ^ •
QJ .in CO
. w kJ 'O -1-
tn "« * coo
.SCJ nj;^
^ S^ "i .
--J tn ^- ON
(^ OJ ^ CO
'-' b/l I o
M .5 00 "^
"3 00
i4
J3 rt
X
in ,
>< o ^
c
u:
-a
t^
- en --^4
X
(D
J? c <«■
o u •- :3 CX, 55
-;S > CI -Q I*- *g
•o
&«•-.- 00
• - c oooo^ «
bi3^ ^ tx O .
>- - C ^3
S O "^ *5
— ' *" n* C r*
.^ o S s
rt "= t«
in 0)
- C
- - C bo n 3
wi .S XI
3 - R
J3 T3 5 tn " a-j v-^
3 -a t; rt 13 c L" ^•
tn
■" <*«
- o '-' .
■Sis ^
nj tn
rt
on 1- t, fO
— a J3
•a
— CO
- <u I
43 00
Woo
W
l-<
^ OJ 3
^ c S
bo
u
3
•a
p 00
tqoo
Oh
<U 00
d
-be
a
^■5
CO
CO
u .-
bii
c
3
J3 J3
3K
158
A CELTIC AND ENGLISH KALENDAR OF
SAINTS PROPER TO THE WELSH, COR-
NISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH, BRETON, AND
ENGLISH PEOPLE.
[ (L.) attached to a name signifies that the Life is given in the text of the
preceding volumes, any other references are to dates under which
the additional notices appear in this Calendar.'\
JANUARY
Elfan and Medwy (Elvan and Medwin), BB. Wales,
end of 2nd cent. (L.). See also May 14 and
24, August 8, and September 26.
Maelrys, C. Carnarvonshire, 6th cent.
GwYNHOEDL or GwYNODL, Mk. C. Carnarvonshire, 6th
cent.
MocHUA or CUAN, Ab. Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Tyfrydog, C. Anglesey, 6th cent.
Machraith, C. Anglesea and Merioneth, ith cent.
MocHUA or CKOJ:i AN, A b.Balla, in Ireland, "jth cent. (L.).
Ernan, CO. Donegal, circa 634; also December 22.
Maelrys, his name also spelt Maelerw or Maelryd, son of
Gwyddno, the son of Emyr Llydaw, belongs to the first half of
the sixth century. He was a cousin of Cadfan, and almost cer-
tainly came with him to Wales from Armorica, in that large
company of saints that then migrated to the British Islands.
Maelrys, like his cousin, settled in Bardsey.
Gwynhokdl or Gwynodl was son of Seithenyn, warden of
the dykes of the low-lying tract of land off the coast of Cardigan,
that formed the cantref of Gwaelod. In the sixth century, by a
159
*-
^
sudden submergence, the sea overflowed this district. The kinj^
of the district of Gwaelod was Gwyddno Longshanks. It was
the duty of the warden to ride along the embankments that kept
out the sea, and which had probably been raised by Roman
legionaries, as were those which shut out the Severn from Calde-
cot level and Wentlooge. Br.t Seitlienyn was given to intem-
perance, and neglected his duty. Whether there was an actual
submergence or not, the blame for the waves overflowing and
devastating the district was laid upon Seithenyn. The occasion
was doubtless a concurrence of neap-tide and strong westerly
winds. Gwyddno and his court were keeping revel that night,
and Seithenyn was very drunk. The king escaped with difficulty
before the inrolling stormy sea. It is said that by this calamity
sixteen palisaded caerau were destroyed. Such persons as escaped
fled to the mountainous region about Snowdon. The recollection
of the disaster produced a saying attached to a heartbroken sigh ;
it was likened to
The sigh of Gwyddno Garanhir,
When the waves rolled over his land.
A short poem, attributed to Gwyddno, is preserved, in which
he laments : —
" Stand forth, Seithenyn, and behold the dwelling of heroes
the plain of Gwyddno is whelmed by the sea.
Accursed be the sea warden, who, after his carousal, let
loose the destroying fountain of the raging deep.
Accursed be the watcher, who, after his drunken revelry,
let loose the fountain of the desolating sea.
A cry from the sea rises above the ramparts : even to
heaven does it mount, — after fierce excess comes a long
lull.
A cry from the sea rouses me in the night season.
A cry from the sea rises above the winds.
A cry from the sea drives me from my bed this night."
Probably the disgrace that attached to Seithenyn's whole
family after this terrible catastrophe induced his sons to retire
entirely from the world and devote themselves to religion.
His ten sons embraced the monastic life under Dunawd, at
Bangor Iscoed. (For Merin see January 6.)
Tyfrydog was the son of Arwystli Gloff, a brother of Di-
heufyr, Tyrnog, Tudur, and Twrog. He was a member of the
college of Bardsey, and founded the church of Llandyfrydog.
He lived down to the close of the sixth century.
*-
-*
January 2.] Ccltic and EitgHsh KaleudaT. 1 6 1
Machraith. Of this saint nothing is known.
Ernan was nephew to the great Columba, and was a servant-
boy in the monastery of Clonmacnois. When Cohmiba visited
this place in 590 Ernan strove to touch the hem of his rough cloak,
when the saint, seeing the effort of the lad, held out his hand,
took him, and placed him before his face. Some of the by-
standers bade him take no notice of a troublesome boy ; but
Columba silenced them, laid his hands on the head of Ernan,
blessed him, and said, "This boy whom ye now despise will
henceforth be agreeable to you, and will go on from grace to
grace, and be gifted by God with wisdom, learning, and
eloquence."
Along with his brother, Cobtach, he followed his uncle to
Alba, to labour at the conversion of the Picts. After many
years spent there he returned to Ireland, and established himself
at Drumhorne, in Donegal. Adamnan says that on the night
that Columba died, it was revealed to Ernan in vision. In the
Irish calendars he is called Ernan of Rathnew, in Wicklow, but
it is somewhat uncertain whether there were not two of the same
name. In Ireland his memory is revered on August 18, but
in the Scottish calendars his name occurs on January i. He died
in the year 634.
\ Holy Martyrs of Lichfield, circa 304 (L.).
ScoTHiN, C Ireland^ circa 550.
Seiriol, C Anglesea, 6th cent.
ScoTHiN was a native of Ireland, who came to Britain and
studied under S. David, and the manner of his coming was this : —
He was a disciple of S. Aidan, Bishop of Ferns, in Ireland.
Aidan had been a pupil of S. David, and he loved his master
dearly. Now it fell out on Easter Eve that whilst Aidan was
in prayer it was revealed to him that David was in great peril,
for three false brethren had put poison in his bread, so as to
destroy him. Then Aidan tearfully besought the Lord to deliver
his old master. And an angel appeared to him, who said, " Send
thy fellow disciple Scothin to the seaside, and I will enable
him to pass over." Then Scothin did cheerfully what he was
bidden, and he walked in the water till it reached his knees.
Thereupon appeared a sea monster, and took him on his back
and landed him on the other siile, on Easter Day at noon, and
he met David coming from church, and told him the message of
Aidan.
VOL. XVI. L
-vjgt
1 62 Lives of the Saints. (Januarys.
In the refectory David took the poisoned bread and broke it
into three pieces. One he gave to a crow, the second to a dog,
but the third he ate himself and took no hurt, though crow and
dog died. Then " all the brethren arose and lamented, and cursed
the steward, cook, and deacon, and with one mouth condemned
them and their successors, that they should never inhabit any
portion of the kingdom of heaven."
After a while Scothin returned to Ireland, and lived as a soli-
tary in a cell constructed by himself on Mount Mairge, in Queen's
County. After an edifying life he died on January 2, but the
exact year is not known. It was about 550,
Seiriol was the son of Owain Danwyn, and brother or nephew
of Einion, prince of Lleyn, in Carnarvon, of the race of Cunedda.
Einion established a sacred tribe at Penmon in Anglesea, and
made Seiriol chief of the saintly tribe. So celebrated did this
establishment become under him, that foreigners, so we are tpld,
even Scandinavian vikings, resorted to it for instruction. This
is a clumsy way of explaining that some Norse pirates who had
been captured on the coast were given up to Seiriol, instead of
being put to death. Seiriol and Cybi were friends. The former
lived at Penmon, the latter at Holyhead. They were wont to
meet weekly at Clorach, near Llanerch y Medd. From the cir-
cumstance of Seiriol travelling westward in the morning with
the sun, whereas Cybi's course was eastward against the sun,
they were denominated Seiriol the Fair and Cybi the Tawny.
Matthew Arnold wrote a sonnet on this story, but mistook the
point. He makes Seiriol the Bright, because the sun was on
his face, and Cybi the Tawny, because his was in shade.
Late in life Seiriol retired to Glanach or Priestholm, a little
island off the coast. This islet is now called Ynys Seiriol. He
lived in the early part of the sixth century. Challoner gives
January 2 as his day, but in his supplement gives as well Feb-
ruary II. There is some question whether February i was not
also observed as his day in Wales. There used to be an inscrip-
tion on a stone in the tower of Llanengan to the memory of
his father. In Welsh Calendars on February i.
3 Melor, il/. Cornwall or Brittany, circa 538 (L.).
GwENOG, V. Cardiganshire, ']th cent.
Melor, son of Melyan, prince of Cornwall, is not to be mis-
taken for Meilyr, brother of S. Maelrys, who is commemorated
on January i.
*
Januarys] Celtic a7id EngUsJi Kalendav. i6
o
The story of S. Melor is involved in difficulties, partly because
his legend is replete with fables, next because it contains ana-
chronisms, and lastly, because the scene of his adventures is
regarded as either Cornwall or Cornouaille, and his place of
martyrdom is claimed to be at both S. Mylor in the former, and
at Lanmeur in the latter.
Sweeping aside all the fabulous matter in the legend, we come
to those particulars which are historical. Melor was the son of
Melyan, prince of Cornwall or of Cornouaille, probably of both.
Melyan was the son of Budic, and his brother, Tewdric, was
prince of Western Cornwall, where he made himself notorious
through his opposition to a settlement of Irish immigrants in
Pen with ; he went so far as to kill some of them, Fingar and Piala.
The brother of Melyan was Hoel I., cousin of King Arthur, who
had been sent by Arthur to rule as prince in Brittany. Hoel,
called in the legend Rhiwal, that is to say, the Lord Hoel, finding
Melyan in the way, murdered him in 538, and sought to destroy
also his nephew Melor, who, however, fled to the abbey of S.
Corentin to escape him. Here comes in the anachronism. In
the legend it is Corentin who affords him shelter. But that is
impossible, as Corentin died in 453 ; and all we can admit
is, that he was for a while sheltered by the successor of S.
Corentin. There may be some truth in the story that Melor
was mutilated by Hoel, and this mutilation of hand and foot
was designed to incapacitate him from becoming a candidate for
the chieftainship. But when, in spite of this, a party was formed
to support Melor, then Hoel proceeded to extremities and had
him assassinated.
With regard to Melyan the father, the traces of his having
been in Cornwall are many. Not only are S. Mellion and
Mullion churches dedicated to him, but also near Par are Lan
Mellion and Merthan close together, indicative of an ancient
martyrium and a church dedicated to the saint. In S. Tudy
is another Lan Mellion, another at Liskeard, and there are
other less distinct traces of his foundations. That he was a
prince in Cornwall, therefore, I can hardly doubt. But that
Melor fled to Brittany from Hoel, who was now in Britain and
then in Armorica, is most probable. It is true that in Cornwall
is the church of Mylor dedicated to him, and believed to occupy
the site of his martyrdom, but it may be only a commemorative
church. The adjoining parish is S. Mabe, i.e. the Holy Son,
and it is possible that the original church at Mylor may have
been a foundation of S. Melyan, and that the adjoining church
was known as that of the Saintly Son ; but that gradually the
-k<
164 Lives of the Saints. [January 3
greater fame of the boy eclipsed that of his father, and his name
was transferred to his father's foundation. This, however, is
mere conjecture. Linkinhorne is dedicated to S. Melor, so
also is Thornbury, in Dorsetshire. His relics were held to be
enshrined at Amesbury. All this points to a very close relation
with the south-west, and to the story having taken a lively hold
of the Britons there, which could hardly have happened unless
he had been related intimately to the reigning house.
In the Legendariuin of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter, 1366, is
the story. It begins : " S. Melor, son of Meliar, King of Corn-
wall, lost his father when he was seven years old. His mother
was in Devon (in Devonia regione), Aurilla by name, of the race
of Rivold." There is a doubt as to the exact relationship of
Rivold and Melian. On the strength of a statement in a frag-
mentary Life, published in the Analecta Bollandiana (T. v.
p. 165), that Melor's mother was daughter of Judoc, Count of
Domnonia, he has been moved to a date but little before 710.
But Aurelia cannot have been a daughter of S. Judoc, who
was never married. Judoc may be a misreading for Budoc.
In Brittany tradition attaches to every stage of the flight of
Melor from his uncle. His estates are said to have been at
Lanmeur, between Lannion and Morlaix, in Domnonia. Be-
tween Carhaix and Lanmeur, according to the legend, when he
was pursued, the earth sank and formed a hollow, in which he
concealed himself. This is still shown, and called Guele San
Velar, or the Bed of S. Melor. A chapel was built over the
spot. Thence he pushed on in the direction of Boiseon, but was
overtaken by night and took refuge at a farm in Plouigneau,
now called Gouer Velar, or the rivulet of Melor. On leaving
the farm next morning, without his breakfast, he ascended a hill
and fainted from exhaustion, where now stands a small chapel
dedicated to him at Coal-sao-bell (the Wood of the Long Ascent).
Thence he pushed on to Boiseon. There Rivold came and
carried him off to Lanmeur, where he stabbed him at a spot
near the parish church, which is pointed out as the scene of the
murder. Indeed, even a room in the old wooden house is called
Cambr-ar-Sant, or the Chamber of the Saint. Tradition is so
minute in its particulars relative to the localities, that it is diffi-
cult to doubt that S. Melor belongs to Brittany and not to
Cornwall.
In Brittany the feast of 8. Melor is on October 3, and not in
January, and the form assumed by his name is Meleuc, which
is a corruption of Melur-oc. In Bishop Grandisson's Exeter
Calendar the feast is on October i.
lit ^
*
January 4.1 CelHc aud EngHsk Kaleiiclar. 165
William of Malmesbury said of the story of Melor, in the twelfth
century, " Incertum," and so it is still as to its details ; but there
can be little question as to the substantial truth of the story,
that he and his father were the victims of a family contest for
supremacy, such as was common in all times among the Celtic
chiefs, where the law of subdivision of authority and land provoked
these fratricidal crimes.
GwENOG, a virgin in Cardiganshire, of whom nothing is known.
To her was dedicated a church at Caerleon, a mile and a half
from the town, at the angle between the Soar and Avon. It wa?
destroyed at the Reformation. She is not to be confounded with
S. Gwenafwy or Wennapa or Veep of Cornwall, nor with S.
Gwynog, the nephew of the latter and disciple of S. Cadoc,
both of whom made settlements in Cornwall
RuMON, B.C. in Cornwall^ Brittany ^ and at Tavistock ^
in Devon (L.).
RUMON, Roman, or Ruan, was the name of a man of some
note and importance. He is thought to be the same as the
Ronan who was consecrated bishop by S. Patrick, and to have
visited Scotland. But although this is possible enough, know-
ing, as we do, how great travellers the Cehic saints were, yet
it is advisable to hesitate about the identification.
That he came to Britain we know. And here local tra-
dition comes to our aid. He made a foundation at Romans-
leigh, originally Lan Roman, in Devon.
Then the spirit of restlessness came over Rumon, and he
moved away to the west, and settled in the Poti of Kerrier,
where he elicited a fountain from the rock, and his church and
holy well remain to this day. His festival was there held on
August 30. Another of his foundations was near Porthleven,
where the parish still bears his name, as S. Ruan Major.
Another of his foundations is Ruan Lanihorne. Lanihorne is
a corruption of Llan-ruan. In the church here is an interesting
ancient figure of the saint, and there is a holy well in the midst
of the village.
It was doubtless on his way west that he tarried at the mouth
of the Fowey, where he founded a church, Llan-ruan, corrupted
in Domesday to Lanlaron ; but the port or basin of the harbour
still bears his name unaltered as Polruan. For some reason
unknown, but jirobably no other than the love of change, he took
boat and crossed to Armorica, and reached land on the west of
-► A
I 66 Lives of the Saints. [January 4.
Leon, in the harbour of Aber Ildut. Ascending the valley he
came on wild and unpeopled country. There they show to this
day a rock hollowed out, which is called the bed of S. Ruan or
Ronan. The district was marshy and insalubrious, and he left
it to move south, following the coast. He came to the dense
forest of Nemet, rolling down the flanks of the Menez Hom,
and he planted his hermitage there on a height. Between the
mountain he occupied and the town of Curiosopitum, or Quimper,
the country was fairly peopled, partly with the original non-
Aryan race, dusky and broad-shouldered, partly with British
immigrants, who had assumed the lordship over them. The
wolves in Nemet troubled the natives greatly, dependent as they
were on their flocks and herds. The natives were pagans, but
the immigrants had some smattering of Christianity. Ronan
laboured hard to convert the heathen, and thereby provoked
some hostility. One of his principal opponents was a woman
named Keban, young and good-looking, who was particularly irate
because Ruan or Ronan had converted her husband, and she
feared would turn him into a monk. She accordingly accused
Ronan of being a werewolf. " Every night," said she, "betakes
on him the shape of a wolf, and devours our sheep." She per-
sisted in this charge, and even went before the British king
Gradio to formulate her accusation. She had a little daughter.
One night Ronan, in the form of a wolf, had burst into the
cottage and carried off and eaten the child.
The concourse was immense ; exasperation against the re-
puted werewolf was at its height. She demanded justice of
Gradio against Ronan, and that he might be burned alive ! The
king sent for the saint. In the effervescence of minds it would
not be well to take openly the side of the hermit, nor would it
do to scout the charge, as then the people would with their own
hands wreak vengeance on the saint.
So Gradio said, " Bring him to me. I have two wolf-dogs.
If he is innocent, they will not hurt him ; but if they sniff
anything of the wolf about him, they will tear him to pieces."
The people were delighted. Meanwhile Gradio, who did not
desire the death of the hermit, had his hounds well fed, and
probably let them see him in intimate commune with the saint.
On the day appointed Ronan and the hounds were confronted.
He raised his hand and said, "Do what God wills." They
came and licked his feet.
That sufficed. At once the stupid and ignorant rabble roared
out that Keban had been guilty of slander, and they would burn
her. Ronan with difficulty rescued her. He persuaded the mob
January 5-6] Celtic auci EugUsk Kale^idav. 167
to search her house, and promised that there they would find hei
child concealed. This was done. The little girl was discovered
hidden away.
Unhappily the legend of S. Ronan is fragmentary, and we know
of no more incidents in his life, nor anything concerning his death.
In the ninth century his relics were translated to his oratory
in Loc-Ronan-ar-Coat-Nevent, or the Chapel of Ronan, in the
Wood of Nemet. There is also a church of his foundation in
the diocese of S. Brieuc, Lanrenan. In Brittany he is commemo-
rated on June I, but this probably is the day of the translation.
But Tavistock Abbey claimed to possess his relics, translated
thither by Ordulph, Earl of Devon, in 981.
I have assumed that the Ronan of Brittany is the Ruan of
Cornwall and the Romanus or Rumon of Devon, as the legend
represents the Breton saint as coming from Britain, and identifies
him with the disciple of S. Patrick, who travelled greatly.
5 Edward the Confessor, K. England, a.d. 1066 (L.
on October 13).
6 The Epiphany.
Merin, C. Monmouthshire, Carnarvonshire, 6th cent.
EiGRAD, C. Anglesea, 6th cent.
Hywyn, P.C. Bardsey and Carnarvonshire, end of 6th
cent.
Edeyrn the Bard, C. Anglesca, 6th cent. ; also Nov. 1 1 .
Ulched, C. Anglesca.
Peter, Ab. Canterbury, a.d. 608 (L.).
Merin or Meiryn was trained at Bangor under Dunawd.
He was the nephew of Gwynhoedl {^^q Jatuiary i). In Wales
S. Merin is commemorated on January 2, and he is the patron
of Bodferin, in Carnarvon, and of Llanferin, in Monmouthshire.
The church of Lanmerin, in the old diocese of Treguier, in
Brittany, is possibly dedicated to him.
EiGRAD, son of Caw and brother of S. Samson of York. He
was trained in the religious establishment of S. Illtyd. He
founded a church in Anglesca in the sixth century. (Challoner.)
HvwYN, variously spelt Ilefnin, Ilenwyn, Hewnin, w.is the
son of Gwyndaf lien, or "the Aged." Gwyndaf was an
Armorican chief, anil brother of Amwn the Black. He retired
*-
-*
1 68
Lives of the Saints.
[January 7.
into Wales, and became head of the college of Duhricius at
Caerleon. In his old age he retreated to Bardsey, where he
lies buried. Hywyn his son accompanied Cad fan from Brittany.
He was first a member of the college of Illtyd, and afterwards
bishop in Bardsey. He founded the church of Aberdaron, on
the opposite coast of Carnarvon, from whence pilgrim-; crossed
over to the Holy Isle. (Rees.)
Edeyrn the Bard was son of Nudd, of the family of Maelgwn
Gwynedd. He was one of the most valiant knights of the court
of King Arthur.
The story was told that three giants occupied the hill of Bren-
tenol, and when, one Feast of the Nativity, King Arthur was
feasting at Caerleon, to prove Edeyrn he sent him to fight these
giants. Edeyrn was successful. He slew all three, but was so
exhausted by the struggle that, when King Arthur arrived on
the scene, he lay insensible on the ground, and Arthur reproached
himself for having been the cause of his death, and he vowed
masses for his soul. Edeyrn, however, revived.
In the Mabinogioii is a story of an encounter between Geraint,
prince of Devon, and Edeyrn, " the Knight of the Sparrow-hawk."
There was set up yearly in a meadow a silver rod between two
forked sticks, and on this a sparrow-hawk, and for it knights
jousted. Edeyrn won it for two years in succession. Had he won
it the third, it would have been his for ever ; but Geraint con-
tested the prize with him, and won it. The attendant on Edeyrn
was a dwarf, who had struck one of the ladies of Queen Gweniver
across the face with a whip. When Geraint had defeated Edeyrn
he sent him to the court to apologise for the insult offered.
Edeyrn devoted the latter part of his life to religion. He lived
in the sixth century. He is also commemorated on November 11.
A church, Llanedern, in the diocese of Leon, in Brittany, is
dedicated to him, and there his tomb is shown with his figure
carved upon it.
Ulched : nothing further is known of him than that he founded
the church of Llechulched, in Anglesea.
CwYLLOG, C Anglesea, 6th cent.
Cedd, B. London, a.d. 644 (L.).
Kentigierna, W. R. Loch Lomond, Scotland, circa
A.D. 733.
Cywyllog or CVVYLLOG was a daughter of Caw and wife
of the traitor Modred, nephew of King Arthur.
»*«-
January 8-12.] Celtlc auci EugUsh Kalcndav. 169
Kentigierna was a daughter of Ceallach Cualain, prince of
Leinster, who died in 715. Ceallach was the ancestor of the
O'Kellys of Rathdown, in the county of Dublin. She was
married to Feradach, chieftain in Monchestree, and had for
brother S. Coemgan, and her son was named Faeltan. Him
S. Ibar is said to have saved from drowning, when he saw the
boy at the bottom of a lake playing with water-kelpies — trans-
lated in the legend into angels. • Leaving Ireland, Kentigierna,
accompanied by her brother and son, came to Straphilane, in
Scotland, and finally she retreated wholly from the world and
lived as a recluse in the island of Inch Cailleach, in Loch
Lomond, where she died about 733.
8 Pega, V. England, circa a.d. 718 (L.).
Translation 0/ S. ]UDOC (see July 25; December 13).
WuLSiN, B. Sherborne, a.d. 983 (L.).
9 FiLLAN, Ab. Scotland, 8th cent. (L.).
Adrian, Ab. Canterbury, a.d. 709 (L.).
Brithwald, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 731 (L.).
Translation 0/ S. William, Abp. York, a.d. 1283.
10 Sethrida, V. Abss. France, ph cent. (I^.).
William Laud, Abp. M. Canterbury, a.d. 1645.
1 1 Llwchaiarn, C. Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire,
6th cent.
Egwin, B. Worcester, circa a.d. 720 (L.).
Llwchaiarn was the son of Hugarfael and brother of
Aelhaiarn and Cynhaiarn. Nothing further is known of him
than that he founded churches in Montgomeryshire and Cardi-
ganshire, and lived in the sixth century.
12 Benedict Biscop, C. Northiimbria, a.d. 703 (L.).
Thirty-Eight Monks, 71/iT/./;;/rWrt,circaA.D. 750(1..).
Aelred, Ab. C. Rivaulx^ Yorkshire, A.D. 11 66 (L.).
*■*-
170
Lives of the Sai?its.
[January 13.
-*
13 Erbin or Ervan, C Devon and Cornwall, e^th cent.
Elian the Pilgrim, C. Anglesea and Denbighshire, 6th
cent, {see February 22).
Saeran, C. Denbighshire, 6fh cent.
Eleri, V. Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire, 6th cent.
Kentigern, B. Glasgoiv, a.d. 601 (L.).
Erbin was the son of Cystenyn Gorneu or Constantine the
Cornishman, a prince of Devon in the fifth century. No
churches are dedicated to him in Wales. S. Ervan, in Cornwall,
is dedicated to him, and was probably founded by him. Hals
gives Ervan as a corrupt form of Erbyn. When so many
churches of Celtic origin were re-dedicated in the Middle Ages,
Erbin was converted into Hermes, a martyr in the Roman
Kalendar. He was also grandfather of S. Cyngar, Abbot of
Congresbury. His brother Digain founded a church in Den-
bighshire, called Llangernyw, or the Church of the Cornishman.
Erbin was undoubtedly a chieftain, and he probably retired from
the world to dedicate his life to God, where now stands the
church in North Cornwall that bears his name. The date of
his death is about 480. The Welsh Kalendars commemorate
him as well on May 29.
Ei.iAN Geimiad, or "the Pilgrim," was the son of Gallgu
Rieddawg, and his mother was Canna, daughter of Tewdwr
Mawr, the son of Budic I. The church of Llanelian, in Angle-
sea, was formerly resorted to by a great concourse of people,
who implored his aid for relief from a variety of disorders, and
to gain his favour considerable offerings were made. These
amounted to so large a sum that three tenements were purchased
with it, which belong to the living to the present day. S. Elian's
Well, at Llanelian, in Denbighshire, obtained great notoriety as
a cursing well. On payment of a fee to the keeper of the well,
persons devoted the names of their enemies to the vengeance of
the saint, by inscribing them on pebbles and dropping them
into the water. By this means they brought upon them cramps,
agues, and losses. This custom survived to the present day.
A singular confusion has arisen through mistaking Elian with
S. Hilary. S. Cybi and Elian were wont to meet at a place
called Llandyfrydog, between Holyhead and Llanelian, there to
confer upon subjects of religion. From this arose the idea that
Cybi had been a disciple of S. Hilary — Elian's epithet, Ceimiad
("pilgrim"), being mistaken for Cannaid ("bright"), and so
-><
January 14-15.) Celtic and EugHsh Kaleiidaf . 171
corresponded with the Latin Hilarius, or Elian resembling
Hilary, produced the mistake. Consequently, not only has this
led to difficulties in reconciling dates, but also it has been the
means of churches founded by Elian being re-named in honour
of S. Hilary. One of the Scilly Isles, where probably Elian
resided and had an oratory, now bears the title of the Bishop
of Poitiers ; and although the wake of Elian is observed in the
month of August, his festival has been regarded as on January
13, because that is the day of the commemoration of S. Hilary
of Poitiers. But Hilary belongs to the fourth century, and Elian
to the sixth.
In Cornwall, Elian must have been almost as well known as
his friend Cybi, whom he probably followed thither. He was
the founder of S. Allen's church, in Powder, where his feast is
obser\ed on the third Sunday after Easter. He had a chapel
in Sithmy,
14
15 Ita or Ytha, V. Ireland, A.D. 570.
Lleuddad, Ab. C. in Carmarthenshire, 6th cent.
Sawyl Benuchel, Prince C. at Bangor, 6th cent.
Sawyl Felyn, C. in Carmarthenshire, ?>th cent.
Ceolwulf, K.C. Lindisfarne, a.d. 767 (L.).
S. Ita or Ytha, who may be regarded as the Bridget of
Munster, was a daughter of Kennfoelad and Necta, Christians,
and of royal race. She was born about 480. From her earliest
childhood she showed signs of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
so sweetly modest and pious was she. It is related that, while
she was still very young, the room in which she slept seemed
ablaze, and in the midst of this marvellous light the young
damsel lay asleep, her face transfigured to superhuman beauty.
She was sought in marriage by a noble youth, and her father
greatly favoured his suit ; but she obstinately resisted, and took
the veil. She then retired to the .south of the barony of Hy-
Conaill, in Limerick, where she led a solitary life. Numerous
maidens placed themselves under her direction. She affected
such abhorrence of money that after touching it she washed
her hands ; and her love of morlilication was so great, that she
allowed a great stag-beetle to gnaw into her side unmolested.
This, however, is to be understood as implying no more than
4< — __ j,
172
Lives of the Saints. [January 15.
that in her old age she suffered from cancer. She nursed and
brought up the illustrious Brendan of Clonfert.
So great was her fame, that when S. Comgan of Gleanussen
was dying, he sent for her to lay her hand on and close his
lips. She lived to a very advanced age, and died on the 15th
January 570.
It is probably due to the presence of S. Brendan in Devon
and Cornwall that there are churches and chapels there dedi-
cated to this great abbess. She is there known as S. Ide or
S. Syth.
Lleuddad, latinised into Laudatus, son of Alan or Emyr
Llydaw, was a companion of S. Cadfan when this saint emi-
grated from Brittany. The incessant family feuds among the
British settlers of Armorica was the cause of so large an immi-
gration of men of princely families to Britain. Lleuddad was a
cousin of Cadfan, on whose death he was appointed abbot of
the monastery of Bardsey. Next to his predecessor he has
been considered the guardian saint of the island. " Unloved
is every unamiable person " is a saying attributed to him in
Welsh literature. Probably he is the S. Laudus or Lo, Bishop of
Coulance, who died 568.
Sawyl Benuchel, or "the Haughty," was the brother of
Dunawd, and son of Pabo, the Pillar of Britain ; he stood out
for the cause of the Britons in the North against either Picts or,
more probably, the Angles, who conquered and settled the basin
of the Tweed between 500 and 547, in which year the kingdom
of Bernicia was constituted by Ida. It is possible that the family
of Pabo may have been in part of Pictish origin. It is probable
enough that Frisians had already settled in the valley of the
Tweed, and that it is due to this that the Firth of Forth bore
the early name of the Frisian Sea. Through the dim haze of
northern tradition we see a chieftain struggling in battle after
battle at the opening of the sixth century against invaders, till
about the middle of the century the Britons were compelled to
relinquish the basin of the Tweed and withdraw behind the
Cattrad, a line of embankments that strikes through Ettrick
Forest.
According to Welsh tradition, the reason of Sawyl and Dunawd
following their father into Wales was that they were unable to
hold their own against the invaders ; moreover, Sawyl's over-
bearing character drove his clansmen into revolt against him, and
they expelled him. Dunawd threw himself on the protection
of Cyngen, Prince of Powys, and he was given a tract of land,
and founded a monastery at Bangor. But Sawyl the Haughty
-*
tf4
January 16-20.] Celtic and EfigHsk Kalendav. 173
appears in the Legend of S. Cadoc as exercising authority as a
petty chief in Glamorganshire. S. Cadoc was mightily offended
because one day Sawyl, together with his attendants, came to
the monastery of Llancarvan and gorged themselves on the food
and drink they found there, till they all lay down in a sleep of
surfeit and drunkenness. Then Cadoc ordered his monks to
shave off half the beards and hair of the sleepers, and with razors
to cut off the lips and ears of their horses. When the robbers
awoke they were still too stupefied to observe anything. But
Cadoc knew full well that, as soon as they came to their senses,
they would return and butcher them all ; he therefore bade his
monks go forth with psalms and hymns in procession. They
advanced till they reached the mound on the top of which was
the caer of Sawyl. The chief, seeing the monks arrive, and
being now aware what had been done, rushed with his men
down upon them, whereupon the ground gaped and swallowed
them up, "and the fosse where they were engulfed is known
unto this day." The story is puzzling, for, in the first place,
one does not see how Sawyl got into Glamorgan, and next,
because he was not swallowed up, but became a monk. Other-
wise his behaviour to S. Cadoc was consistent with his passionate,
overbearing character.
He was married to Gwenaseth, daughter of Rhufon Rhufoniog,
and was the father of S. Asaph. Rees believed that Llansawel,
on the Cothi, was his foundation, but it is more probably a
foundation of Sawyl Felyn, or "the Tawny," who lived in the
eighth century. (Welsh Cal. B.M. Addl. MSS. 14,912.)
t6 FuRSEY, Ab. in France and Stiff oik, a.d. 653 (L.).
Henry, H. Northumhria, a.d. 1127 (L.).
17 MiLDGiTHA, V. Kent, circa a.d. 730 (L.).
18
19 Blaithmac, Ab. M. and Companions MM. lona, a.d.
824 (L.).
VVuLSTAN, B. Worcester, a.d. 1095 (I..).
20 Fkchin, Ab. Fore, in Ireland, a.d. 665 (L.).
-4*
174
Lives of the Saints. [January 21-24.
21
2 2 Brithwald, B. Wilton, a.d. 1045
23 BoisiL, Ab. Melrose, circa a.d. 664.
BoiSiL was a disciple of S. Cuthbert, and was abbot of Old
Melrose. lie is spoken of both by Bede and by the author of
the Life of S. Cuthbert. He died in the great pestilence of 664.
24 Cadoc or Catawg, Ab. Wales, 6th cent. (L.).
S. Cadoc. In the text reference is made to La Ville Marque,
La Legende Celtique. La Ville Marque is now somewhat dis-
credited among scholars. His object was to write a popular
and picturesque book, and he was indifferent as to his treatment
of authorities.
S. Cadoc has left his impress in Cornwall, where a chapel
at Padstow was one of his foundations. We are told in his Life
that he produced a fountain in Cornwall by thrusting the end of
his staff into the ground. After that he went on to Rome and
Jerusalem, and brought home with him some of the water of the
Jordan, which he poured into his Cornish spring. The mira-
culous power of the well was increased thereby a hundred-fold ;
therefore the Cornish people built a chapel on the spot near the
well. Quethiock, now dedicated to S. Hugh, was possibly
originally Eglyscadoc. At Llancarvan S. Cadoc lived like a
prince, as he was ; and the account is interesting, as it shows us
what the conditions were in an ecclesiastical tribe. " He daily
fed a hundred clergy, and a hundred soldiers, and a hundred
workmen, and a hundred poor men, with the same number of
widows. This was the number of his household, besides ser-
vants in attendance, and esquires, and guests, whose number
also was uncertain, and a multitude of whom used to visit him
frequently. Nor is it strange that he was a rich man and
supported many, for he was abbot and prince." His bio-
grapher further states that his territory extended from Ffynnon
Hen, the Old Well, and the Rumney, to a stream that enters the
sea near Cadoxton.
He seems to have been terrible in his curses. But the stories
of the judgments which befell such as were cursed by him are
doubtless later inventions, composed for the purpose of scaring
*-
^
January 25.] CelHc aiid EngUsk KaleJidav. 175
Welsh and Norman princes and barons from laying hands on
the lands of the monastery.
The curious story told of Cadoc carrying red-hot coals to his
master, and of his then hiding the fire in the earth, where it got
lost in some of the disturbances of South Wales, is due to a
misunderstanding of the biographer. What Cadoc found was
a vein of coal in Glamorganshire, and to this the people had
recourse till the seam got covered by a fall of earth, or its situa-
tion was forgotten. Yox fire in the text we should xea.dfueL
S. Cadoc visited Brittany, and founded a monastery in the
island that bears his name in the lagoon of Etel (see p. 107) ; he
built there a church of stone, and made a causeway connecting
the island with the mainland. But his tarrying in Brittany was
not for long. Not to be confounded with S. Cadog, son of
Brychan, of Brecknock and Carmarthenshire.
2 5 DwYNWEN, V. Anglesea and in Cornwall, beginning of
^l/i cent.
DwYNWEN was of the family of Brychan, king of Brecknock ;
she is numbered among his daughters, but this means no more
than that she was closely allied by descent in blood. She founded
a church in Anglesey, and if, as is possible, she, like so many
of her sisters, brothers, and kinsfolk, came to Cornwall, then
she must have settled at Ludgvan or Llan-Dwynwen. By the
Welsh bards she has been regarded as the patron-saint of true
lovers. She and Maelon Dafodril fell desperately in love with
each other, but when he paid his addresses to her, in a spirit
of levity she flouted him, and he retired deeply offended, and
spread ugly reports concerning her. She was greatly distressed,
and prayed to be relieved of her passion. An angel appeared
and administered to her some drops of a heavenly balm, and at
once her heart was lightened of its love-sickness. Next the
angel dosed Maelon, who was thereupon turned into a lump
of ice. Dwynwen prayed, and God granted her three requests.
For the first she asked that Maelon might be thawed ; for the
second, that all who invoked her might obtain the husbands
they desired or become indifferent to them ; and for the third,
that the desire to marry might for ever depart from her. A
gilded image of her stood at Llanddwynwen or Llanddwyn, in
Anglesey. A maxim attributed to her is "Nothing wins hearts
like cheerfulness," Another Cornish foundation of hers was
perhaps Adwen, now Advent, but formerly Llan-Dwen. The
date of S. Dwynwen is about 460.
*
*-
176
Lives of the Saints. [January 26-30
*
26 CONAN, B. Sodor^ A.D. 648.
Theoritgytha, v. Barking, ']th cent. (L.).
CoNAN, Bishop of Sodor, was the tutor of S. Fiacre. Little
is known about him.
27
28 GiLDAS Badonicus, circa a.d. 570 (L.).
29 GiLDAS the Younger, Ab. Brittany, circa 600.
VoLOC or Macwoloc, Ab. B. Scotland, a.d. 724.
VoLOC or Macwoix)C was a stranger to Alba, but to what
nation he belonged is not told us. lie settled into a little hut
of reeds and wattles, and led a life of great austerity. Possibly
Voloc is the Irish Faelchu, and there was one of this name
abbot of lona between 717 and 724, and it was under him that
the Celtic tonsure was abandoned and the Roman was adopted.
;o Peithian, V. Wales, 6th cent.
Tybie, V.M. Wales, e^th cent. *
Charles, K.M. England, a.d. 1649.
Peithian, a daughter of Caw, and, like her sister Cwyllog
(see under January 7), is buried in Anglesea. No churches
are dedicated to her.
TvBlE was a virgin of the family of Brychan, king of Breck-
nock, and consequently of Irish origin. She is said to have
been murdered by pagans about the middle of the fifth century.
Brychan had a court at Llysbrycheiniog connected with the
astounding fortified Cam Goch near Llandeilo, in the valley of
the Towy. He attempted to extend his authority in the direc-
tion of Morganwg and into Dyfed. It is probable that his
encroachments met with resistance, and in a revolt or a riot
Tybie was killed where now stands the church of Llandybie,
near which is a farmhouse called Gelli Forwynion, " The Grove
of the Virgins," where tradition says she and her sister, S.
Lleian, and others lived. Her holy well is hard by.
*-
January 31.] Celtic atici EfigUsIi Kalcudar. 177
31 Melangell, v. Wales, middle of 6th cent, {see May 27).
Tyssul, C. Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, 6th cent.
AiDAN or Maedoc, B. Ferns, in Ireland, circa a.d.
632 (L.).
WiLGis, C. Holderness, circa a.d. 700.
Tyssul was the son of Corun, of the family of Cunedda, and
he lived in the sixth century, and founded churches in Mont-
gomeryshire and Cardiganshire.
WiLGis was the father of S. Willibrord, Apostle of Friesland,
and Archbishop of Utrecht. Wilgis, along with his whole
family, led a pious, God-fearing life. Late on in life he
retired to a headland on the banks of the Humber, beside a
chapel dedicated to S. Andrew. The people of the neighbour-
hood resorted to him, believing him to have the gift of working
cures. A small community gathered about him, and formed a
religious cell, that was afterwards a priory. The great Alcuin
was at one time prior there, and he has left some account of the
holy founder. He is venerated on this day at Echternach, but
does not seem to have got into English kalendars.
AlDAN, Bishop of Ferns. To the account given in the text
may be added some characteristic stories.
One day, as a boy, he kept sheep. Eight wolves approached,
and he pitied them ; they were manifestly famishing, and he gave
them eight wethers. As he returned home, driving his flock, his
aunt appeared in the distance, a woman with a hard mouth, and
not disposed to pass over the loss of eight wethers. So he cried
to the Lord, and lo ! eight wethers appeared to take the place
of those eaten. He was walking reading in the fields one day,
when a poor stag that was being pursued by hunters fell on its
knees before him. Aidan placed his book between the horns,
and continued reading. The hunters drew off, not daring to
kill the beast protected by the saint. He and S. Molass were
great friends, and resolved to travel, if it might be, together.
Then they set up two sticks in the ground, and watched which
way they should fall. If together, they would be companions ;
if not, each would go in the direction indicated by the fallen
stick. The rod of Molass fell south, that of Aidan north. So
they parted. Three boys were drowned in a tarn. Aidan was
informed of it. He went to the lake, walked on the water till he
saw the drowned boys at the bottom. Then he summoned them,
and they rose like corks. He gave them to their mothers alive.
VOL. XVI. M
*
178 Lives of the Saints. [Januakysi.
Whilst he was a disciple of S. David, at Menevia, he incurred
the anger of David for having left his book in the rain. David
ordered him to prostrate himself on the seashore. Aidan obeyed,
and David pardoned him, but forgot to tell him to rise. After-
wards, in his monastery, David wondered at the absence of his
disciple, and inquired where he was. Some told him he had
been seen prostrate on the beach. Then he sent, and Aidan was
found there. The tide had risen and flowed about him, and yet
he would not stir till released by his master. A man was brought
to Aidan, born without eyes and nostrils, his face a blank.
Aidan blessed him, when suddenly eyes appeared and nostrils
gaped. He was inspired with particular animosity against the
Saxons, and attended the Britons in their fights, and cursed
their enemies with the best possible effect.
On his way back to Ireland, in a little boat, he arrived whilst a
fight was going on, and the Irish king was slaughtering a number
of pirates who had landed to ravage the land. Aidan began to
rin^ his little hand-bell, and when the king heard the tinkle
wafted over the waves, he desisted from the butchery, for he knew
a holy man drew nigh, to whom such bloody acts were distasteful.
Aidan was granted land in a lonely district. He was troubled
with wolves, but, having a compassionate heart, he gave a calf
to them one night that belonged to " two cows." Next day the
cook came to him to say that the cows would not give their
milk, and lowed, and were restless because they had lost their
calf. Aidan bade the cook stoop, and he stroked and blessed
his head, and bade him go to the cows and let them lick it well.
The cook did so, and the cows were comforted ; "and," says
the biographer, " the cows loved that cook like a calf."
Aidan fasted on one occasion for fifty days and as many
nights, and in return was granted his petition, that thenceforth
whoever should sit in his seat would certainly go to heaven.
One day he cursed a rock, and split it.
A certain Saran had assassinated the King of Leinster. Aidan
cursed him that his hand should fall off, and not recover it until
he had been pardoned by the murdered man. So Saran lay down
beside the cairn of the king, with crossed hands on his breast.
After several nights, the dead man spoke from the sepulchre :
"Saran, you brute 1 1 forgive you" (OSarane, brute, ignosciturtibi
quod fecisti). When dead, a certain paralytic man was healed by
rubbing himself with some spittle he collected from the dead lips.
This is a fair specimen of the stuff that fills the " Lives" of
Irish saints.
*-
February 1-4] Celtic uncl EfigUsk Kalendav. 179
FEBRUARY
1 KiNNEA or Cennea, v. Ireland, e^th cent.
Crewenna, V. Cornwall, beginning of dtli cent.
Bridget, V. Abss. Kildare, a.d, 525 (L.).
Dardugdach, V. Kildare, a.d. 526 (L.).
Seiriol, C. Anglesea [see January 2).
Crewenna was one of the Irish virgins who came with
Breaca, la, Senan, and others to Cornwall at the close of the
fifth or beginning of the sixth century. She suffered martyrdom
at Crowan. Unhappily nothing further is known concerning
her. The cause of the martyrdom was that Tewdric, himself a
Christian, objected to the Irish invasion of his land in Penwith,
and its appropriation.
2 Laurence, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 619 (L.).
3 Meirion, C. Anglesea, 6th cent.
Werburga, Abss. Hanbury, in Staffordshire, beginning
8th cent. (L.).
FoTHADH II., B. Scotland, a.d. 1093.
Meirion was the son of Owain Danwyn and brother of
Einion the king, and of S. Seiriol. {See Seiriol, yammry 2.)
FOTHADH II. was the last bishop of St. Andrews of the old
Celtic Church, and on his death in 1093, King Alexander
appointed in his room Turgot, the confessor of Queen Margaret,
and all the property and rights of the saintly clan passed over
to the Church under Roman obedience.
4 Aldate or Eldad, B.M. Gloucester, circa a.d. 5 So.
MoDAN, Ab. Scotland, -jth cent. (L.).
Gilbert of Sempringham, Ab. England, a.d. 1189
(L.).
Eldad or Aldate was the son of Ceraint, the son of Cara-
nog. lie was descended from Cadell Deyrnllwg. He became
► 4-
i8o
Lives of the Saints. [February s-O-
-*
Bishop of Caer Loew, or Gloucester, after having been trained
in the school of S. Illtyd. In 577 occurred the disastrous
battle of Deorham, attended with the capture of Bath and
Gloucester, which fell into the hands of the West Saxons. The
bishop was not driven out, but during some affray he was killed,
about 580.
5 Indract, Dominica, and Comp., MM. Glastonbury^
2>th cent. (L.) ; also May 8.
RoNAN, B. Scotland, 2>th cent.
RONAN is mentioned by Bede ; he died in 778 ; however,
the Ulster annals give 737 (736). ^ngus calls him Bishop
Ronan the kingly, and says that he lies in Lismore. But his
name is best known in Scotland. There is some uncertainty as
to his day, whether February 5, February 7, or February 9.
6 Mael, Melchu, Mun, Rioch, BB, Ireland, end 0/
5//1 cent.
Ina, K. West Saxons, circa a.d. 728 (L.).
7 AuGULUS, B.M. London (L.).
Meldan, B. Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Richard, K.C, a.d. 722 (L.).
8 KiGWVE or CiWA, V. Wales, 6th or ^th cent.
CuTHMAN, C. Steyning, in Sussex (L.).
Elfleda, V. Abss. Whitby, a.d. 716 (L.).
KiGWVE or Kywa is marked in the Exeter martyrology as
commemorated on this day. She is probably the same as
Ciwa, a sixth or seventh century saint who is venerated in
Monmouthshire.
9 EiNiON, C. Wales, beginning of 6th cent.
Athracta, V. Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Teilo or Theliau, B. Llandaff, circa a.d. 566 (L.).
EiNlON, the king, was of the family of Cunedda. This is a
family that played an important part in Welsh history. Cunedda
•r-
*
► ^-
-►<
February 9.1 Celtlc and EngUsk Kaletidar. i8i
was a British ruler in North Britain, and was invited by the
Welsh of Gwynedd to assist them against the Irish Goidels,
who had possessed themselves of Mona and the greater part
of North Wales. He sent his sons with their followers, and these
sons, after expelling the Irish, possessed themselves of the lands
they had released. This was soon after 409. Cardiganshire,
Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen, as well as Gwynedd, were thus laid
hold on and portioned up among the brothers. Some of the
family became professional saints, that is to say, were con-
stituted heads of ecclesiastical tribes. No less than fifty saints
were reckoned as belonging to this family. Einion Frenhin, or
the king, was prince over Lleyn, a division of Carnarvonshire.
He founded Penmon, in Anglesea, and also a monastery in
Bardsey. There was an inscribed stone in the tower of the
church of Llanengan which he founded, and that bore his name,
but it is of later date, and is now effaced. His death took
place in the sixth century.
Teilo. The strong spring that rises near the ruined church
of Llandilo, at Penally, near Tenby, is a holy well of the saint.
In the farmhouse hard by, Mr. Melchior, the tenant, preserves
the skull that was shown and used before the Reformation as
that of S. Teilo. He is the hereditary guardian of the relic.
The skull, as now preserved, is imperfect, only the brain pan
remaining. The open sutures prove that it must have been the
head of a young person, and as S. Teilo is said to have died at
an advanced age, it could not have belonged to him. More-
over, a part of one superciliary ridge remains, and this is of
slight elevation, so that it seems almost certain to have been
part of a young woman's head. Patients drink the water of
S. Teilo's Well out of his reputed skull, and many cures are
recorded.
At some time S. Teilo must have been in Cornwall and in
Brittany, where he has left his stamp. In Burian is a chapel
and a well of S. Dillo. The church of Landelleau, in the
diocese of Quimper, honours him as patron, and claims to
possess his relics. In the diocese of Dol his day was Novemr
ber 29. Another church dedicated to him is S. Thelo, in the
old Pagus of Goello, now a deanery in the diocese of S. Brieuc.
Perhaps also Quillio, an adjoining parish on the opposite bank
of the river Oust, may also be named after him.
In the text nothing is said of his having been one of the first
companions with David in the establishment of his monastery at
Rosina, the spot now called S. David's. The Bretons say that
1.82 Lives of the Saints. [February 10-12.
10
his migration to Armoiica was occasioned by the yellow plague,
which wrought such devastation in Britain, and of which Mad-
gwn Gwynedd died in 560. After the cessation of the plague
they say that he returned to Wales.
1 1 Ceadmon, Mk. Whitby, circa a.d. 680 (L.).
12 RiocH, Ab. Brittany, 6th cent.
Translation of S. Frideswide, V.M. Oxford.
Ethelwold, B. Lindisfarne, a.d. 740 (L.).
RiocH : according to the legend, there were two Armorican
chieftains, named Neventer and Uerrian, who visited Palestine
at the time when S. Helena was engaged on the search for the
true Cross on Calvary. On their way home they came to Brezal,
near Landerneau (Lann-Ternau), in Brittany, where they saw a
man throw himself into the river. They hastened to rescue
him, and found that his name was Elwrn, and that he was a
chieftain. From him they learned that a ferocious dragon in-
habited Brittany. The king, named Bristoc, who lived in a
caer at Brest, had ordered that every Saturday lot should be
cast among his nobles, and he on whom the lot fell was required
to furnish one of his vassals as food for the dragon. The lot
had fallen so often on Elwrn that he had given up all his sub-
jects, and now was left alone, with only a wife and child of two
years, and that, as the lot had again fallen to him, he had
sought death in the river rather than see his child devoured.
The two valiant men, Neventer and Derrian, offered to rid the
country of the dragon if Elwrn would devote his son to religion.
To this he gladly consented, and at once delivered up his two-year-
old child to be educated to the ascetic life. The two brave men
then went in quest of the dragon. Derrian threw his baldric
round the monster, and bade the child, to whom the name
of Rioch had been given, lead it to his father's castle. The
monster was then thrown into the sea. At the age of fifteen
Rice or Rioch retired from the world to a rocky islet in the
parish of Camaret.
-*
*-
February 13-16.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
183
Fragan, father of S. Winwaloe, who settled at Plou-fragan,
in the north of Armorica, visited the saint in his solitude, where
he had lived on the islet for forty-four years, and he found him
completely overgrown with red moss. This he scraped off, and
found his skin fresh and white under it. Winwaloe took him
from the island to Landewenec, where he died about 530. Cressy
in his "Church History of Brittany" makes him a son of S.
Darerca, "by nation a Briton, near kinsman to Patrick, by
whom he was ordained a bishop in Ireland." But this is a dif-
ferent person, a contemporary of Bishop ^dus, who died in
5S9, and who visited Rioch in his monastery of Inis-bofinde, in
Lough Ree. It is obvious that this abbot cannot have been the
nephew of S. Patrick. There is confusion in the Irish accounts.
There may have been two Riochs in Erin, but both must have
been distinct from the Rioch of Brittany.
13 Dyfnog, C Denbighshire^ ph cent.
MoDOMNOC, C. Ossory, 6/h cent.; also October ii (L.).
Erminild.\, Q. Abss. Ely, circa a.d. 700 (L.).
Dyfnuc was the son of Medrawd, of the family of Caradog
Freichfras. lie is not the patron of the church of Defynog, in
Breconshire, as is generally believed, for that church is dedi-
cated to S. Cynog, the son of Brychan.
14 Nectan, B.M. Devon {see June 17).
15 Berach, Ab. Ireland, circa a.d. 615 (L.) ; also on
February 18.
OswY, K. Northumbria, a.d. 670 ; see August 20 (L.).
16 TuDA, B. Lindisfarne, a.d. 664.
TuDA was one of those energetic Irish clergy who, after
having travelled and been in Rome, enthusiastically embraced
Roman usages, and laboured thenceforth to bring the Irish
Church into conformity with Latin Christianity. He defiantly
wore the semicircular tonsure, and his labours were in the south
of Ireland, which was already nearly won to Roman customs,
whereas in the north Celtic peculiarities remained. He was
*-
-*
*-
i84
Lives of the Saints. (February 17-18.
ordained bishop, and went into Northumbria, where S. Colman
ruled, and observed the usages of his forefathers. When this
latter saint, after the Council of Whitby, was forced to resign,
because he would not submit, then Tuda was thrust into his
place at Lindisfarne ; but he ruled there for a short time only.
He died in or about 664. See further, under Colman, Feb-
ruary 18.
I 7 FiNTAN, Ab. Ireland, 6tli cent. (L.).
LoMAN and Fortchern, BB. Ireland, ph cent. (L.).
GuEVROC, Ab. Brittany, 6th cent, (see CvRiG, June 16).
FiNAN, B. Lindisfarne, x.-D. 661 (L.).
18 Colman, B. Lindisfarne, a.d. 676.
Colman succeeded Finan as Bishop of Lindisfarne in 661.
He was a Scot, and, like his predecessors, unyielding in his
adherence to Celtic ecclesiastical usages. In the third year of
his rule a synod was convened at Whitby. Oswy, the King of
Northumbria, kept Easter according to Celtic custom, his wife,
Queen Eanfleda, according to Roman computation. The differ-
ence had arisen out of a mistake. The Roman Church had
re-settled Easter at a time when the British Church was isolated
through the invasion of the Saxons ; but the partisans of the
Latin arrangement thought to humble the British Christians by
heaping insulting epithets upon them, calling them quarto-
decimans and schismatics. The chief advocates of the Roman
usage were Agilbert, formerly Bishop of the West Saxons, and
S. Wilfrid, whose arrogant and overbearing character has been
described under the heading of his name (April 24). The prin-
cipal supporter of the Celtic use was S. Colman. Wilfrid had
the best of the argument, though he used intemperate language,
and threw aspersions on the memory of a far nobler and better
man than himself, the great Columba. Oswy settled the matter
in these words : "You both acknowledge that it was not to
Columba, but to Peter that the Lord said, ' To thee will I give
the keys of the kingdom of heaven,' and I tell you that he is
a doorkeeper whom I am unwilling to gainsay ; I desire to be
obedient to his injunctions, lest, haply, when I come to the
gates of the kingdom of heaven, there should be none to unlock
to me, if he be out of humour who holds the keys." Oswy, in
>*-
-> <
febkuary 19-22.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 185
fact, may have felt twinges of conscience because he had mur-
dered Oswin, and, in his mean soul, hoped to obtain admission
into heaven by thus winning the favour of its doorkeeper.
As Colman would not yield, he resigned his see of Lindis-
farne ; in fact, he was forced to do so, and, accompanied by the
whole of his Scottish brethren, and about thirty attached monks
of Anglican nationality, carrying the bones of S. Aidan, the
apostle of the Northumbrian Church, he retired to lona. It
may have been that the house at lona was unable permanently
to maintain so large an addition to the community as was thus
suddenly thrust upon it. At any rate, before long Colman
removed with his monks to Ireland, and settled them in Innis-
bofifin, the "island of the white heifer," situated two or three
miles off the nearest point of the coast of Mayo, exposed to the
storms and rollers of the Atlantic. After a while dissensions
broke out between the Irish and English monks, the latter com-
plaining that the Irish shirked the work of harvest by leaving
the island in autumn to visit their friends. Colman solved the
difficulty by buying a piece of land from a chief on the main-
land, and building a monastery there for his Englishmen. This
latter became an important settlement, and was known as Mayo
of the Saxons.
Colman remained at Innisboffin till his death, which took
place in 676.
ig Odran, M. Ireland^ circa a.d. 451 (L.).
BiLFRiD, H. Lindisfarne, a.d. 756 (^see Balther and
BiLFRED, March 6).
20 Olcan, B. Ireland, circa a.d. 500 (L.).
Mildred, V. Abss. Thanet, circa a.d. 700 (L.).
WuLFRic, P.H. Haselbiiry, in Dorsetshire, a.d. 1154
(L.).
21
22 Elwyn or Allen, C. Cormvall and Wales, circa a.d,
420 (^see January 13).
-»**
1 86 Lives of the Saints. [February 23-24
23 Earcongotha, v. Abss. Faremouticrs, end of ^th cent
(L.).
MiLBURGA, V. Abss. Wcnlock, in Shropshire, ph cent.
(L.).
BoiSiL, Ab. Melrose {see January 23).
JuRMiN, C. Bury St. Edmunds, circa a.d. 750.
JURMIN was of the royal family of East Anglia, and is said
by some writers to have been a son of King Anna, but more
probably his parents were Ethelhere, the brother of Anna, and
S. Hereswytha, the sister of S. Hilda. No particulars of his
life are recorded, but his bones were translated to Bury St.
Edmunds. William of Malmesbury calls him Germinus, and
says that he could learn nothing concerning him.
24 CUMINE the White, Ab. lona, circa a.d. 668.
Ethelbert, K. Kent, a.d. 616 (L.).
Liuthard, B. at Canterbury, 'jth cent., see February 24
(L. p. 409), also May 7.
CuMiNE the White, also called Cummian, was trained in the
Columbian monastery of Durrow, in Queen's County. He went
thence to lona, with the abbots of which he was related by
blood. He abandoned the Celtic party with regard to the
Paschal controversy, and sent an epistle to the Abbot Segnius
of lona from the place to which he had retired, Disart-Chiamin,
on the question. This epistle is a wonderful monument of
Irish learning in that age, and at the same time throws much
light on the events of the time. In it he refers to S. Patrick as
"papa noster." He mentions names of saints now become
shadows— Ailbe of Emly, Kieran of Clonmacnois, and Brendan
of Clonfert. And he puts the matter of controversy neatly
thus : " What can be thought worse concerning the Church, our
mother, than that we should say Rome errs, Jerusalem errs,
Alexandria errs, the whole world errs — the Scots and Britons
alone know what is right.'' He ridicules the claim of the Celts to
set up for themselves, for, says he, " What are they but a pimple
on the chin of the world." He wrote a Life of S. Columba, and
in spite of his opposition to the Celtic use with regard to Easter,
on the death of Suibhne (Segnius) was elected abbot of lona.
He died in 668.
*
mar'V°] Celtic and English Kalendar. 187
25 Walburga, v. Abss. Heidenheim, circa a.d. 780 (L.).
26 Tyfaelog, C. Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire, 6th
cent.
Tyfaelog was a son of S. Giklas, and grandson of Caw. He
founded churches in Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire.
27 Alnoth, H.M. Stowe, in Northamptonshire, circa a.d.
727 (L.).
28 Llibio, C. Anglesea, 6th cent.
Llibio was one of the sons of .Seithenin, who, with his
brothers, after the overwhelming of the plain of Gwyddno by
the sea in the sixth century, became saints in Dunawd's monas-
tery of Bangor, by the banks of the Dee.
MARCH
David, B. Menevia, in Wales, circa a.d. 562 (L.).
MoNAN, C. Ireland, a.d. 571.
Marnan or Marnock, B. Scotland, a.d. 625.
MoNAN, Archd. St. Andrews, circa 874 (L.).
Sannan or Senanus, Ab. Ireland {see March 8).
Daviu. The beautiful shrine of .S. David remains intact in
the choir of the cathedral. A recent discovery is of great
interest. During the restoration of the lady chapel and ambula-
tory, between it and the choir a recess was discovered behind
the high altar, walled up and plastered over, that contained
human bones. This recess was formerly lighted by a beautifully
worked and ornamented small circular Norman window opening
into the church, about four feet above the floor. There can
exist little doubt that these relics were those of the patron saint,
which could be seen and touched through the \xny fntestella
confessionis. At the Reformation it was plastered over and
concealed. The relics on their discovery were placed in a box
*-
-**
k 4-
-► 4
i88
Lives of the Saints.
[March 2
and buried in the churchyard. They certainly ought to have
been placed in the empty tomb in the choir ; but those who
made the discovery were not at all aware what the signification
of the position of the bones was, and consequently whose they
were. His death is variously placed at 544, 562, and 601.
MoNAN or MoiNEN was suffragan-bishop to S. Brendan of
Clonfert. He is spoken of as tall and fair, and he is in all
likelihood the same Monan who came with S. Brendan to
Clonfert when quite a youth ; he afterwards went, according
to Scottish tradition, to Fife, but the Scottish legend concerning
him is fabulous.
Marnan or Marnock was a bishop in Scotland, and is
thought to have been the same with Ernans, a boy who sought
to touch S. Columba's garment at Clonmacnois, and whose
future greatness was predicted by the saint. But in the Irish
calendars his commemoration is on August 18. Formerly it
was customary to wash the head of the saint at Aberkerdner
every Saturday, and give the water to be drunk by those who
were sick and suffering. His death took place about 625.
Fergna the White, B. Scotland, a.d. 622.
GwRTHWL, C Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire, un-
certain date.
Chad, B. Lichfield, a.d. 672 (L.).
JoAVAN, Ab. B. Brittany, circa a.d. 553 (L.).
Fergna the White was an Irishman, and a kinsman of S.
Columba, and from his earliest youth he was under his direction
at lona. He returned to Ireland, and dwelt at Clon-genevil till
the death of Columba, which was miraculously communicated
to him. Upon this he went to Scotland, and led a hermit-life,
first in one island then in another. He was afterwards made
abbot of lona, and was a bishop. He died in 677.
JOAVAN, whose life is given in the text, was son of a sister of
S. Pol de Leon, or Paulus Aurelianus, and was grandson of
Porphius (Porphyrins ?) Aurelianus, probably a Romano-British
family. His brother is called in the legends Tinidor, but this
is Tighernach-daor. He was with his uncle at the college of
S. lUtyd, at Lantwit Major, but seems to have been much in
Ireland, and his father appears to have been settled there. He
followed his uncle Paul to Brittany, and became abbot of
Daouglas, where two abbots, Judulus and Tadec, had been
><-
if,
March 3.] Celtu and English Kakfidar. 1 89
murdered by a petty noble called Fao. He succeeded in con-
verting this chieftain, and baptized him. When S. Paul resolved
to surrender his bishopric and abbacy at Leon, Joavan was
chosen as his successor, but held the bishopric and abbacy for
a year only, and died in or about 553.
On the ground of Joavan or Jaovan being supposed to be
Irish, Colgan has admitted him among the saints of the island
on March 2, the day on which he is venerated in Brittany.
3 NoN, Mother of S. David, W. Wales and Cornwall,
circa a.d. 540.
WiNWALOE, C. Brittany and Cornwall and Wales, 6th
cent. (L.).
NoN or NoNNiTA, the mother of S. David. She was the daugh-
ter of Cynr of Caer Gawch, a rude fortified camp on one of the
headlands of S. Davids. He was but a petty chief. Ceredi-
gion or Cardigan lay to the north, governed by Sandde, grand-
son of Ceredig, of the house of Cunedda, who gave his name
to the district. Sandde happening one day to see Non in the
fields, seduced her.
She retired to a little dwelling near Forth Cleis, on the slope
of the downs, above the purple crags that plunge into the sea.
Here was a pleasant spring, and here, facing the sun, she
remained till she bare a child, which was in the midst of a
thunderstorm. It is told that in her pains she lay under a great
standing stone, a menhir, and that this was split by the lightning,
and one portion was whirled over her head and fell and planted
itself erect at her feet. Yet she was in no way injured. She
had leaned her hands against the stone, and left the impress on
them in the hard rock. This stone was afterwards laid as the
foundation of the altar, when a chapel was erected on the spot.
This chapel remains, and is ruinous. It points north and south,
and has an early incised cross on the east side. The lower
portion of the south wall is of very rude and primitive masonry,
to the height of about six feet, built without mortar. Were the
rubbish cleared away and this interesting chapel excavated, the
marvellous stone with the impress of her hands " like wax "
might be found.
When S. David was born he was taken to Forth Cleis, where
he was baptized by the Bishop Beluc in a well that is still known
as the place where S. David was made a member of the kingdom
of (jod.
^ ^
190 Lives of ike Saifits. [Marchs.
The Lives of S. David expressly tell us that his mother was
outraged ])y violence, and that otherwise "she continued in
chastity of body and mind, and led a most faithful life."
We know very little more of her. It would seem that she
accompanied her son on his journey at least to Cornwall and
Devon, for we have there two churches of her foundation,
Altarnun and Bradstone. At the former was a marvellous well
that fed a tank into which mad persons were precipitated back-
wards, and this was believed to recover them. The tank is now
filled, and the spring has drained away at a lower level. At
this place there was a sanctuary attached to her foundation.
Not far away is Davidstowe, a church under the invocation of
her famous son.
At Bradstone is a large slab, the quoit of a cromlech, the sup-
ports of which have been removed. A local tradition says that
she was martyred on this stone by the Druids, but there is no
authority to support this story. What is possible is, that she may
have been instrumental in the destruction of this monument.
At S. Cuby, in Cornwall, is an interesting inscribed stone in
the foundation of the tower bearing the names of Nonnita,
Ercilius, and Virigatus, but it can have no relation to our saint.
Owing to her name being Non or Nonna, the notion grew up that
she was by profession a nun, who had been violated by Sandde,
Where Welsh history fails us, there Breton legend takes up
and completes the story.
According to the miracle play of S. Nonna, which was at one
time extant at Dirinon, a parish in Brittany, of which .S. Non is
patroness, and where this Hreton play was at one time annually
performed, the mother of S. David was also named Melaria. She
crossed over from Cornwall to Brittany, and found a retreat at
Dirinon, where she remained to her death. There the rock is
shown on which she was wont to kneel in prayer, till she had
left therein the impress of her knees. In the church is her tomb
of the thirteenth or fourteenth century, representing her tramp-
ling on a dragon, and holding a book in her hands. Dirinon is
near Lanternau, south of the Elorn River ; on the opposite bank
is S. Divy, dedicated to her illustrious son.
WiNVVALOE must have founded several churches in Corn-
wall. He is patron of Landewednac and Tremaine, Tresmere,
Gunwallo, and he had a chapel at Cradock, in S. Cleer.
His connection with Cornwall is due to this, that he was the
son of Fragan and Gwenteirbron. Fragan was cousin of Cado,
" King of Britain," and Fragan fled to Armorica in the latter
part of the fifth century. According to Welsh genealogies, the
-*
► 4-
MARCH4.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 191
husband of Gwenteirbron was ^neas Lydewig, and by him she
was mother of S. Cadfan. Fragan must have been a second
husband. His kinsman Cado was the Duke of Cornwall, son of
Geraint, who fell at Llongborth. This being the case, he was
probably son of Erbyn, Prince of Devon, who died about 480.
Winwaloe's cousin would accordingly be S. Selyf or Solomon,
Duke of Cornwall, and also of Breton Cornouaille, and he would
be akin to S. Cybi. This relationship at once explains the
numerous foundations of Winwaloe in Cornwall. At Gun-
walloe his holy well is choked with drift sand. There his
feast is on the last Sunday in April. In Devon the parish
church of Portlemouth is dedicated to him, under the name of
S. Onolaus.
4 GiSTLlAN, C. IFaks, e^th cent.
Owen, Mk. Lastingham, end of 'jth cent. (L.).
Adrian, B.M. St. Andrews and Comp., MM. Scotland,
circa a.d. 870 (L.).
GiSTLiAN was a son of Cynyr of Caer Gawch, a chief who
occupied a walled caer or fortress on one of the porphyry and
purple-red Cambrian headlands above S. David's Head, the
remains of which stronghold are visible to this day. Gistlian
was brother of Non, mother of S. David, and of Gwen, mother
of S. Cybi. Gistlian, or Justlianus, established a monastery at
Hen Fynyw, which was the old Roman Minevia, the site of
which has not been determined with accuracy, but which is
probably covered by the sands that are heaped up in the lap of
Whitsand Bay, and are overrun with low growing yellow roses.
To this point the old Roman road, the Via Julia, leads, but so
far no traces of the ancient settlement have been discovered.
Here Gistlian ruled as abbot and bishop. When S. David
arrived in Menevia, after having been trained by Paul Hen, or
" the Aged," and had founded churches in many places, he saw in
vision an angel, who informed him that old Menevia, or "The
Bush," was not a suitable site for a monastery, for that from it
scarce one in a hundred would be saved, whereas the glen of the
Alun, the Glyn Rhosyn, was so good, that every one buried in its
cemetery would be certain to oljtain mercy. This he related to
his uncle, who thereupon shifted his quarters to the more favoured
spot. If we translate this marvellous story into plain English,
we should say that common-sense had spoken to S. David, and
*-
*
192 Lives of the Saints. [Marchs.
told him that it would be far better to establish a college in a
sheltered valley, where there was good soil with abundant water,
than on the edge of the sea, exposed to the furious gales from
the west, where the sand was ever shifting, the soil was naught,
and there was no spring water. Gistlian died in the sixth century.
5 KiERAN OF Saigir, B. Ossory, in Ire/and and Corn-
wall, circa a.d. 552 (L.).
Jacut, Gwethenoc, Abbs., and Creirwy, V. Brittany,
6th cent.
Caron, B. Cardiganshire.
KiERAN. The oratory and cell of the saint, which were over-
whelmed with sand many centuries ago, were discovered and
dug out in 1835 by Mr. William Michell of Comprigney, near
Truro. A description, accurate and precise, of the church as
found by him is printed in Prebendary Hingeston-Randolph's
" Register of Bishop Grandisson " (Lond., 1897, p. 608). In 1844
the Rev. William Haslam, then curate in charge of the parish,
published a book, in which he gave an account of its " discovery
and restoration." Previous to this the Rev. C. Collins Trelawny
published " Perranzabulo : the Lost Church Found," which went
through seven editions (1837-72). Neither of these writers saw
the church in its original state, and owed much to Mr. Michell's
account. In 1880 Mr. Haslam returned to the subject, in a book
entitled " From Death to Life," and quietly appropriated the
discovery to himself. Not only did Mr. Haslam do this, but he
undertook mischievous " restoration," that is to say, adaptations
to his own fancies. The altar was found north and south. Mr.
Haslam, taking it for the tombstone of S. Kieran, erected it east
and west over the body of the saint, and placed a new granite
slab on top, inscribed S. Piranus, Three skeletons had been
found by Mr. Michell, with their feet only under the altar. Mr.
Haslam pretended to have discovered the skeleton of S. Piran
himself. Small reliance can be placed on his statements ; the
only trustworthy account is that by Mr. Michell, which must be
read where indicated.
Jacut, Gwethenoc, and Creirwy, according to the legen-
dary life of S. Gwenoleus or Winwaloe, were born in one day of
one mother, S. Gwen. Their father was Fragan or Brychan,
but not he of Brecknock. This couple migrated to Armorica
from Britain at the close of the fifth century The three
SAINT GUENN AND HER THREE SONS.
Monument in Brittany,
Appendix Vol., p. 192.]
[March 5.
*-
-^
March 6-7] Celtic mid EngHsJi Kalendav. 193
brothers, Jacut, Gwethenoc, and Winwaloe were educated by
S. Budoc. Their names are not known in Wales, but
they are famous in Brittany. Their mother had three breasts,
and she was able to suckle all three simultaneously. Some
curious representations remain of the three -breasted Gwen.
When grown to man's estate the brothers retired into solitary
places, and Jacut and Gwethenoc found rest for their souls
in the island of Landouart. The ancient kalendar of S. Meen
gives March 3 as the feast of S. Jacut, but in the dioceses
of S. Brieuc and Dol he was commemorated on March 5.
Creirwy was the sister, and she also led a solitary life. Jacut,
along with Winwaloe, was a disciple of S. Corentin. One day
when Creirwy was driving geese out of the yard one of the birds
flew at her, pecked out and swallowed her eye. Winwaloe
killed the goose, opened its crop, took out and replaced the eye,
and his sister thenceforth saw as well as before. A more famous
brother than Winwaloe was S. Cadfan ; but the Welsh accounts
give yEneas Lydewig as the husband of Gwen of the Three
Breasts, and not Fragan. It is, however, possible that Gwen-
tierbron was twice married, and that Cadfan was son by one
husband, and the three commemorated to-day were by the other,
as also S. Winwaloe.
Caron, a bishop, who founded the church of Tregaron, in
Cardiganshire. His date is unknown.
6 Translation of SS. Kyneburga, W. Abss., Kynes-
wiTHA, V. Abss., and Tibba, F. ai Peterboroxigh,
end of 1th cent. (L.).
Balther and Baldred, H.H. Thtingham, in North-
umberland, A.D. 756 (L.).
7 Deifer, Diheifyr, or Dihaer, C. Flintshire, 6fh cent.
Easterwin, Ab. Monkswearmouth, a.d. 686.
Deifer, Diheifyr, or Dihaer was a son of Arwystli
Gloff, or "the Lame." His brother was Tyfrydog, and his
sister S. Marchell, foundress of the cell that became later the
abbey of Strata Marcella. They belong to the sixth century.
He founded Bodfari, in Flintshire.
Easterwin, r kinsman of Benedict Biscop, became a monk
of Wearmouth, and although of noble blood, he held the plough,
VOL. XVI. N
-*
194 Lives of the Saints. [Marchs-h.
and worked in the mill and at the forge. He had an open,
pleasant countenance. Whilst Benedict was away, Easterwin
ruled the establishment. He was seized with his last sickness
whilst Benedict was in Rome, and he died in 686.
8 Senan of Inniscathy, B. Ireland, circa a.d. 546 (L.).
Rhian, Ab. Pembrokeshire, date imcertain.
Felix, B. Dunwich, a.d. 654 (L.).
DuTHAC, B. Ross, A.D. 1 253 (L.).
Senan. In the text I have said that I suspected that the
S. Sane venerated in Brittany, at Plouzane, was a different person
from the Bishop of Inniscathy. I no longer hold this opinion.
I think that there can be little doubt that the S. Sennen who
built a church at Land's End, Cornwall, was Senan of Innis-
cathy. The Breton legend clearly identifies the abbot who
settled at Plouzane with this famous Irish saint, and he is com-
memorated in Brittany on the same day as in Ireland. The
church of S. Senan, at the Land's End, is dedicated to him ; so,
perhaps, was Zennor, but it is reputed to be named after a
female saint, Senara.
Rhian is called by William of Worcester {Kin. p. 164) " S.
Ranus, abbas " ; and by Leland {Itin. v. 29) " S. Reanus, abbas."
He lived in Pembrokeshire, where he founded Llanrhian.
9 CoNSTANTiNE, K.M. Comwall ; also March 11 {see
below).
BoSA, B. Northnmbria, a.d. 705 (L.).
Merin, tth cent., see January 6, and Gwynhoedl,
January i.
10 Kessog or Makessog, B. Ireland and Scotland, 6th
cent. (L.).
Failbhe the Little, Ab. lona, a.d. 754.
Failbhe the Little, abbot of lona from 747 to 754, died at
the age of eighty.
1 1 Constantine, K.M. Cornwall and Scotland, circa A.D.
576 or 600 (L.); see also March 24.
ujEngus of Keld, B. Ireland, circa a.d. 824 (L.).
*-
-*
March 12-15.]
Celtic and Eiiglish Kalendar.
195
13 Paul, B. Leon, in Brittany, a.d. 573 (L.).
Gregory the Great, Pope, Rome, a.d. 604 (L.).
MuRAN, Ab. Fathinnis, Ireland, circa a.d. 650 (L.).
Alphege the Bald (the Elder), B. a.d. 951; also
September i.
Paul, Bishop of L^on, The Life by Wrmonoc has been
published by Dom. Plaine in the Analecta Bollandiana, 1882,
vol. i. pp. 208-58, and by M. Charles Cuissard in La Rcviie
Celtiqite, vol. v. (1S83), the first from a Paris, the second from a
Fleuri codex, and this is a great acquisition, as the Life given in
the Bollandists was unsatisfactory. Wrmonoc wrote in 884, but
admits that he had an earlier life to go upon.
Paul's father was Porphius, a Romanised Briton, and he was
born at Cowbridge, in Glamorganshire. He had eight brothers
and three sisters. Among the latter was Sativola or Sidwell.
We learn the names of the rest from other sources, S. Wulvella
and S. Jutwara.
In Cornwall he founded Paul's, near Penzance, and he is also
patron of Ludgvan. Between these two churches is Gulval, of
which his sister Wulvella is patroness.
13 MoCHOEMOG, Ab. Liathmor, Ireland, middle ph cent.
(L.).
Kennotha, V. Scotland.
Gerald, Ab. B. Mayo, circa a.d. 700.
Kennotha or Kevoca is really Caomhan or Mocoemog,
Abbot of Liathmor, in Tipperary. The history of the life of
this saint having been lost in Scotland, by a curious blunder
he was converted into a female virgin saint, and as such appears
in Scottish calendars.
14
15 CoNLAETH, B. Sodor, circa 520.
CONLAETH was the hermit selected by S. Bridget to be her
chief artist, and she associated him with herself in the govern-
ment of her monasteries. She set him to read aloud to her
*-
*. Ijl
196 Lives of tlie Saints. [March 16-17.
nuns whilst they were at their meals. He is variously called
Conlaith, Conlaed, and Conlian. ' He was a bishop, and he
drove in his chariot to call on S. Bridget, when she was so
pleased with his piety that she retained him. He became first
bishop of Kildare. This can hardly have been before 490. He
is thought to have died about 520.
16 CoLUMBA, V.M. Cornwall (L.).
FiNAN the Leper, Ab. Swords and Innisfathen, Ireland,
circa a.d. 610.
Boniface Quiritine, B. Ross, in Scotland, yl/i
cent. (L.).
FiNAN or Finian the Leper was born in Ireland, in Ely
O'Carrol, and of an illustrious family. Being desirous of perfec-
tion, he took on himself the leprosy of a child who came to him to
be cured, and sent the child away healed. He became a disciple
of S. Columba. He was most desirous to visit Rome, but was
forbidden by the saint. Thereupon Columba, to mitigate the
disappointment of the man, bade him lay his head in his lap.
Finan did so, and when he awoke was able to give a graphic
description of the Eternal City, which he had visited in dream.
Maggots bred in his sores, and these he termed his good mates ;
but after thirty years he was cured.
Whether Finan, who was abbot of Swords, is the same as
Finan the disciple of Columba, is doubtful. Two other monas-
teries are attributed to him, Innisfathen and Ardfinan, " the
high place of Finan," in Tipperary. But almost certainly these
are quite distinct persons. The disciple of Columba died about
575, and the Abbot of Swords is held not to have died till later.
According to the legend of Finan or Fintan Munnu of Taghmon
(see October 21, L. ) this saint was also a leper. The Irish saints
seem to have passed on their complaints as well as the miracles
they wrought from one to another. Fintan died in 625.
17 Patrick, Ap. Ireland, a.d. 465 (L.).
Becan, H. lona, a.d. 675.
Withburga, V. Dereham and Ely, a.d. 743; also
July 8 (L.).
*-
March 18-22.] CcUic aud EngUsk Kaleudiir. 197
1 8 FiNNiAN or Frigidian, of Moville, in Ireland, B. Lucca,
A.D. 589 (L.).
CoMMAN, C. Tyrconnel, a.d. 688.
Edward, K.M. Wareham, a.d. 978 (L.).
19 Cynbryd, M. Denbighshire, $th cent.
Lactean, Ab. Ireland, a.d. 622 (L.).
Alkmund, M. Derby, a.d. 800 (L.).
Clement, B. Dunblane, a.d. 1258.
Cynbryd, one of the many reputed sons of Brychan. He
founded the church of Llanddulas, Denbighshire, and was slain
near it by the Saxons at a place called Bwlch Cynbryd, or
Cynbryd's Pass.
Clement, Bishop of Dunblane, introduced the Dominican
order into Scotland. He had received the habit at the hands
of Dominic himself. Fordun tells us that he was a famous
preacher, and that he had great facility in acquiring languages,
also that he was a man mighty in word and deed before God
and man. He found the church in Dunblane in a deplorable
condition of neglect. It had been impoverished by his pre-
decessor, and the divine mysteries were celebrated in the cathe-
dral only thrice a week, like a country chapel. He laboured
to restore the dignity of divine worship, and to rebuild his
cathedral.
20 CUTHBERT, B. Lindis/anie, A.D. 687 (L.).
Herbert, H.P. Derwentwater, a.d. 687 (L.).
21 Enda, Ab. Aranmore, circa a.d. 540 (L.).
22
Failbhe I., Ab. lona, a.d. 679.
Thomas of Lancaster, M. Pontefract, a.d. 131 i (L.).
Failbhe I. was of the noble race of Conall Gulban, in
Tyrconnel. Finan, Abbot of Rath, was his brother, and lona
was recruited from this stock ; the headship of the abbey was
*-
-*
*i*-
-*
198
Lives of the Saints. [March 23-24.
for long hereditary in the family of Columba. Failhhe became
abbot on the death of Cumin in 66S, and was succeeded by
Adamnan in 679. He twice revisited Ireland, probably in
connection with the Paschal controversy.
23 FiNGAR or GwiNGAR, M., and Piala, V.M. Cornwall,
circa a.d. 520 (L.).
MoMHAEDOC, Ab. Ireland, circa a.d. 600.
Ethelwold, H. Fame, circa a.d. 723 (L.).
Fingar and Piala. Fingar is also known as Gwingar or
Wyncar. In Brittany he is commemorated on December 14.
Not only does a parish bear his name, but also a chapel in the
cathedral of Vannes, and another at Pluvigner, where some of
his relics are preserved. His festival is observed as a double ;
and he is regarded in Brittany as having been a bishop. S.
Piala, his sister, was the original patroness of Phillack, in Corn-
wall. Later clerics changed the dedication to S. Felicitas.
In the text I have said that the Theodoric of the Acts is
probably Corotic, but it is more probable that he was the
Tewdric, a petty prince of Cornwall, who appears repeatedly
as a tyrant. Tewdric had his Lis or Court in S. Kevern parish,
and a palace on the Fal, as we learn from the Acts of S. Kea,
at a place now called Goodern (Gwydd-tiern). If Tewdric were,
as I suspect, the son of Budic of Domnonia, then his date would
be about 510-26.
24 CoNSTANTiNE, K.M. Cornwall and Scotland, circa 600 ^
see below, and March 11 (L.).
DoMANGART, of SHcve Donart, B. Ireland (L.).
HiLDELiTHA, V. Abss. Barking, circa a.d. 720 (L.).
DuNCHAD or DoNATUS, Ab. lona, a.d. 716; also
May 25.
CoNSTANTiNE. According to the legend, he was son of
Padarn, King of Cornwall, but this is a mistake of the Latin
scribe. His father was Cador,^ Duke of Cornwall, reputed to
1 Cadwr mny have become Padwr, ju=;t as the Goidelic Cieran became the
Biythonic I'ieran, and the monkisli writer latinised Padwr into Paternus.
*-
-*
,^-
■m
March 241 Ccltic and EugHsh Kalcndar. 1 99
be a cousin of the renowned King Arthur.
"Metrical Chronicle," says —
Harding, in his
" Duke Cador's sone, of Cornwall bounteous,
Afore had been one of the table rounde
In Arthures time."
It is pretended, but this is mere fable, that after Arthur had re-
ceived his death-wound on the field of Camlan he nominated
Constantine to be his successor, and the British forces continued
for several years under his command to make stubborn resistance
to the Saxons. It was against him that Gildas launched his
ferocious letter in 547. He styles him, " the tyrannical whelp
of the unclean lioness of Devon." Why he should have cast
this insulting epithet at the mother of Constantine is not known.
Her name is unrecorded, but it was part and parcel of Gildas'
manner to throw dirt against every one, especially such as were
of his own race and family. He accused Constantine of murder
and sacrilege, because he had killed two youths who had taken
sanctuary. The traditional account of the circumstance is as
follows : — The youths were the sons of Mordred, who laid claim
to the throne and stirred up rebellion against him, and made
common cause with the Saxon foe. After several battles the
rebels were defeated and put to flight. One of the youths fled
to Winchester, and took refuge there in the church of S. Amphi-
bahis, but was killed by Constantine before the altar. The
other escaped to London, was captured in a monastery, and put
to death. That there is a foundation for this legend is probable
enough ; in fact, Gildas shows that Constantine did kill two
youths, kinsmen, and it is probable enough that he was justi-
fied in so doing. They were traitors to the national cause.
What angered Gildas was, not that they were put to death, but
that they were put to death sacrilegiously. Gildas says : " Not
one worthy act could he boast of previous to this cruel deed ;
for many years before he had stained himself with . . . many
adulteries, having put away his wife. For he had planted in the
ground of his heart a bitter scion of incredulity and folly, . . .
watered with his vulgar domestic impieties," &c. Not much
weight can be placed on the words of this scurrilous writer,
matched only by the coarse and indecent pamphleteers of the
later Georgian age ; but we may allow that Constantine was
not a very virtuous prince.
In 588 or 589 he was converted, according to the Irish and
Cambrian Annals.
iii,-
-*
a^ _
200 Lives of the Saints. (March24.
The story of his conversion is told in the Life of S. Petroc.^
Constantine was hunting near Bodmin, when the stag he was
pursuing fled to the hermit's cell, and took refuge at his
feet. Constantine coming up, purposed to kill the stag, but
his purpose failed when he saw how that the innocence and
holiness of the solitary were recognised even by dumb animals.
He entered into himself, and repented of his disorderly life.
(See the story in the Life of Constantine, March ii, p. 214.)
But, on the other hand, we are told that the real motive of the
conversion of Constantine was grief at the death of his wife.
This does not agree with what Gildas says ; but it is not im-
probable that he may have been reconciled to his wife after a
temporary separation, and have loved her better then than he
did before. The Aberdeen Breviary informs us that this was
the true motive of his conversion, and, further, that his wdfe was
an Armorican Princess.
So completely did he sever himself from the world, that it
was supposed by some that he had been murdered by Conan,
his successor.
But he retired to a cell on the sands in the parish of S,
Merryn, near Padstow, where was a well, and where he could
be near Petroc, through whom he had been brought to the
knowledge of himself. S. Cadoc may have been hard by at the
time; he was a Welshman, and Petroc possibly may have com-
mitted to him the direction of the contrite old king. The other
churches founded by Constantine are one in the deanery of
Kerrier, on a creek of the Helford River, and Milton Abbot, in
Devon, on the Tamar. These were probably dedicated by him
before his conversion, as we do not hear of him having been
long in Cornwall after this event. Had he continued in his
native land, moving from place to place, the rumour that he
was dead could hardly have spread. At the same time, it is
possible that after having resided a while in S. Merryn he
went to the Helford estuary, settled there for a while, and then,
as Conan, prince in his room, objected to his presence in Corn-
wall, he moved across the Tamar into Devon, and then, that
being inconvenient, he betook himself to Menevia, and placed
himself under the direction of S. David. In the Life of S. David
we read that Constantine, on his conversion, came to the monas-
tery in Menevia, "and submitted his stubborn neck, which had
never before been bridled, to the yoke of humility in the cell of
1 I assume that the Constantine of the Life of S. Petroc is one with the King
of Cornwall.
^-
-►^^
*-
-*
March 24.]
Celtic and Ens' lis h Kalendar.
201
this father, and there he remained a long time performing faithful
service." It is difficult to reconcile dates h^re, as David died
before this.
From Wales he removed to Ireland, "and there for the love
of Christ," relates Hector Boece, "he laboured for some time in
the service of a miller, disguised as a poor man, till at length he
was induced by a monk, to whom he made himself known,
to shave his head, and devote himself to a religious life in a
monastery, where he lived with such piety and devotion, that
he became a pattern of all virtues to the rest of the monks,
and, after some time, was sent by the bishop of that place to
instruct the people of Scotland in the faith of Christ." There
he founded the church of Govan, on the Clyde, and was buried
there.
Doubts have been cast on the identity of the Cornish Con-
stantine with the saint of that name who toiled and died in
Scotland at the close of the sixth century. But all the best
authorities concur in describing the Scottish Constantine as the
son of Cador, Duke of Cornwall. The notice of his conversion
in the Irish Annals points to his having been known in Ireland,
and when we find that both in Cornwall, Scotland, and Ireland
his festival is observed on the same day, March II, it is hard
not to conclude that the same man is commemorated. That he
should have wandered about so much is quite in accordance
with the practice of Celtic saints, wlio were possessed with rest-
lessness that never allowed them to remain long in one place.
In the text (March 11) I have adopted the legendary life as
basis, and given his death as occurring in 576 ; but if he be, as
is probable, the Constantine converted in 589, then his death
cannot be put earlier than just before 600.
DuNCHAD succeeded Dorben as abbot of lona in 713. He
was son of Kenfoelaid and grandson of King Malcov, or
Moelcova, consequently was of the Columban family, and in-
herited the abbacy according to the law that constituted the
headship, an office to which one of the family had a hereditary
right. He had been an abbot at Kill-lochuir, in Ulster, before
he succeeded to lona. He was abbot when Egbert arrived from
Ireland and induced the monks to receive the Roman Paschal
cycle, and tonsure. Thenceforth Egbert continued to reside at
lona until 729. Dunchad did not live long after obtaining tlie
alibacy of lona, for he dietl in 716, on May 25, the day on
which his festival was usually kept ; but in Scotland his day is
March 24.
*-
-*
202 Lives of the Saints. [March 25-29.
25 Camin, Ab. Inniskeltra, Ireland, a.d. 653 (L.).
Alfwold, B. Sherborne, a.d. 1075 (L.).
William, child M. Nonvich, a.d. 1141 (L.).
Robert, child M. Bury St. Edmunds, a.d. it 81.
Robert, a child found murdered at Bury, and this furnished
a convenient excuse for pillage and butchery of the Jews, a.d.
1181.
26 MocHELLOC, Ab. Ireland, beginning of ph cent.
27 Tyfei, M. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen, early 6th
cent.
Tyfei was the son ot Budic, an Armorican prince, and
Arianwedd, the sister of S. Teilo. Whilst a child, he was
accidentally killed in the early part of the sixth century, and the
popular voice has proclaimed him a martyr. He owes his
admission into the Kalendar to his having belonged to a princely
and saintly house. His brother was S. Ismael, who was a
favourite disciple of S. David. In Dynevor Park, under the
shelter of the hill, overhung by noble trees, nestling into a warm
corner, with the meadows of the Towey before it to the south,
is the little church of Llandyfeisant, dedicated to him, and pro-
bably the scene of his " martyrdom." He was, however, buried
at Penally, in Pembrokeshire. Soon after, Budic, who had come
to Wales from Armorica, returned to it, and became there the
father of S. Oudoc, afterwards Bishop of Llandaff.
28
29 GwYNLLYW FiLWR 01 WoOLOS, K.C. Moniiiouthshire,
circa 520.
GUNDLEUS or GwYNLLYW FiLWR (the Warrior), now known
as S. Woolos, was a prince of South Wales, son of Glywys,
of the line of Cadell Deyrnllwg. The kingdom was called
Glywysig, and comprised a portion of Monmouthshire and of
Glamorgan. On the death of his father the sons divided up the
kingdom among them, and Pedrog (Petroc) alone went short,
but he had professed the religious life. But according to the
^ >J<
1^ i^
March 29.] Celtlc and EugUsk Kaleuclar. 203
Welsh pedigrees Petroc was son of Clement, who may have been
uncle of Gwynllyw.
The portion that fell to Gwynllyw was the marshy district now
called Wentloog level, between Newport and Cardiff, but run-
ning back to the feet of the mountains. His residence was on
the height near where now stands S. Woolos's Church, Newport,
commanding a splendid prospect of his marshy territory, with
the glittering Severn estuary beyond. The Caldecott and also
the Wentloog levels had been reclaimed by the Romans, and
the second legion, stationed at Caerleon, had banked out the
tide, but since the legion had been withdrawn, doubtless all had
reverted to swamp.
Gwynllyw fell in love with a granddaughter of Brychan of
Brecknock, named Gwladys, and sent to ask her hand, but the
king, her father, treated the messengers with contumely. " She
enjoyed a high reputation, was elegant in appearance, beautiful
in form, and wore silk dresses," says the Life of S. Cadoc.
Gwynllyw, highly incensed, armed three hundred of his men
and swooped down on Talgarth, in Brecknock, where the damsel
was, seated her behind him on his horse, and galloped awaj
with her. The king, her father, pursued, and a fight took placa
at Rhiw Cam, near where now are the Beaufort Ironworks, and
where were the confines of the territory of Gwynllyw. In this
fight several hundred lives were lost. According to the story, it
would have gone ill with the ravisher had not King Arthur,
who happened to be near, come to the rescue.
We possess in addition to this account given in the Life of S.
Cadoc another, a Life of S. Gwynllyw, written to glorify him,
and it is instructive to see how the biographer altered facts to
suit his ideas of what ought to have been. In this latter docu-
ment the story of the marriage reads very differently. " When
by the general advice of the inhabitants he desired to get married,
he sent ambassadors to Brychan, king of Brycheiniog, for he had
heard of the gentleness and beauty of his daughter Gwladys,
she being requested as a bride was promised, and given that he
might enjoy legal nuptials." Not a word about the elopement.
So, on the same authority, we learn, " When Gwynllyw reigned,
all the inhabitants were obedient to the laws, no one then dared
to injure another. Peace was confirmed, there were no conten-
tions in his time, he was a pacific king." But when we turn to
the Life of S. Cadoc we have another account altogether. " On
a certain night some of Gwynllyw's thieves went for the purpose
of committing a robbery to a town wherein dwelt a religious
*
►;^-
•04
Lives of the Saints.
[March 29.
-*
Irishman, who was a hermit, and devoutly served God. These
thieves the aforesaid Gwynll)n.v loved, and incited to robbery P
And again : " Cadoc's father, the aforesaid Gwynllyw, was
given up to carnal allurements, and frequently instigated his
soldiers to robbery and plunder, and he lived contrary altogether
to what was just and right, and disgraced his life with crimes."
This was, of course, in his unconverted days ; but this is a fair
instance of the manner in which some of the monastic biographers
not only evolved the lives they wrote out of their inner con-
sciousness, but even deliberately altered or suppressed facts that
did not comport with their ideas of what the saints should have
been. But at a much later date Alban Butler did the same.
These unscrupulous hagiographers wrote for edification, and not
as historians.
In one point both biographers are agreed, in the goodness of
Gwladys, and her readiness to lead a holy and self-denying life,
in her eager response to the call of Divine grace.
When Gwladys was in a fair way to become a mother, four
lamps shone miraculously every night, one in each corner of her
chamber. This is merely a hagiographer's way of saying that
she liked to keep a light burning in her room at night. Her
eldest child was called Cathmael, afterwards known as S. Cadoc.
This child was the precursor of a large number of brothers
and sisters. When the couple had their quiver as full as possible,
it occurred to them that it was high time for them to think of
their souls. The legend says that this thought was prompted
by an angel, who told Gwynllyw to build a church at a place
where he saw a white ox with a black spot between the
horns.
According to the Life, Gwynllyw and his wife thereupon went
in search of the spot, and the king made over his principality
to S. Cadoc. Probably he did nothing of the sort, but built a
church of wattles, within a bowshot of his caer or fortified resi-
dence. And this spot is that where now stands S. Woolos's
Church.
He and his old wife lived on in their fortress, a furlong
distant, and they fasted together, bathed together in the Usk
when the tide was up, and sometimes when the tide suited
bathed twice a day. When S. Cadoc became a saint and abbot
at Llancarvan he disapproved of the old people tubbing together,
and remonstrated. They could not understand his scruples, but
he insisted, and, convinced against his will, Gwynllyw suffered
his imperious son to remove the old woman to a distance —
*-
-*
1^.
-*
March 29.] Ccltlc aud EfigUsJi KaUndar. 205
within an easy walk — and build her a separate cabin, and enjoin
on her a little less publicity in her bathing arrangements.
In his last sickness Gwynllyw was visited by his son and by
S. Dubricius.
The form of religion — repeated bathing — seems to have struck
the media-'val Latin monks with astonishment, so unaccustomed
were they to cleanliness, and they considered it explicable only
as the severest form of self-imposed asceticism. In this par-
ticular the Celtic saints towered above such as S. Thomas a
Becket, who, when dead, was found to have his inner vestment
" boiling over " with vermin ; towered above the biographer of
Becket also, who could admire such filthy habits.
In a field within a short distance of the church of S. Woolos
" there was not long ago," writes Mr. C. O. S. Morgan in the
Archccologia Cambre7isis (1885), "a moated mound, on the
summit of which was planted a clump of fir-trees. There are
several of these mounds about the country. They consist of a
circular conical mound, having a flat table-top, usually about
fifty feet in diameter, and surrounded by a deep fosse or moat.
The summits are always flat. This mound is now in the grounds
of Springfield, laid out by the late Mr. Gething, It is, however,
no longer a mound, but is buried up to the top with the spoil
brought up by the shafts during the excavation of the tunnel of
the Great Western Railway, which runs underneath. Its site,
however, is still marked ; for, in order to preserve it, as the fir-
trees were all cut away, I suggested to Mr. Gething to collect
the large masses of rock brought up out of the tunnel and place
them in the form of a cairn on the summit of the mound. This
mound used to be called ' The Grave of S. Woolos ' ; but that
was incorrect, as these mounds were not burial-places, but the
dwellings or strongholds of the chieftains or rulers of the dis-
trict, and in subsequent times were converted into castles by the
erection of stone edifices on their summits in lieu of the timber
or wattled structures which originally crowned them. This
mound I believe to have been the dwelling of Gwynllyw, the
prince of this district, where he founded his church in close
proximity to it ; and I fully believe that that mysterious portion
of S. Woolos's Church, generally called S. Mary's, is the church,
or rather the site of the templum, first erected by our saint, and
enlarged and altered at various subsequent periods, but always
spared by adding on the east end, like the church of S. Joseph
of Arimathea at Glastonbury, when the great abbey was added
on to the east end of it."
*-
-*
*-
206
Lives of the Saints. [March 30-31.
-*
In their old age, as already said, Gwynllyw and his wife
Gwladys were separated, and she retired to the banks of the
Ebbw River, where she continued bathing in a spring of coldest
water.
The precise spot has probably been fixed by Mr. Morgan.
He says : " On the banks of the river, above Ebbw Bridge, is a
cliff", on the top of which is a small spot of ground, adjoining
Tredegar Park walls, of less than half an acre, on which there
is a very old cottage. This small detached spot of ground has
always belonged to the church of S. Woolos, and was part of
the glebe land ; and when the glebe lands were sold a few years
ago, it was purchased by Lord Tredegar. A short distance off,
in the park, there issued from the bank a remarkably beautiful
spring of very cold water, over which a bath-house was erected
in 1719, and it was always called 'The Lady's Well.'" Mr.
Morgan conjectures that Lady's Well is a corruption of Gwladys'
Well, and that the explanation of this piece of land having be
longed from time immemorial to the church of S. Gwynllyw is,
that it was the site of the hermitage of the mother of S. Cadog.
There was once probably a chapel on the rock, as the place is
still called "The Chapel."
Recently, moreover, Lord Tredegar has discovered the
tumulus in which she was buried, hard by the chapel and
the well.
30 Regulus or Rule, B. Senlis, commemorated in Scot-
land, ^th cent. (L.).
31 Turcot, B. St. Andrews, Scot/and, a.d. 1115.
Turcot was prior of Durham. On August i he was conse-
crated bishop of St. Andrews. He was confessor to S. Margaret.
York claimed ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Scotland, and this
was resisted by King Alexander. The king and Turgot had
many discussions. The bishop desired to appeal to Rome, but
Alexander allowed him only to go to Durham, where he died
in 1 1 15.
>i<-
*-
-*
^PRIL 1-5.]
Celtic and EnoUsh Kalendar.
207
APRIL
1 Gilbert, B. Caithness, a.d. 1245 (L.).
2 Ebba and Comp., VV. MM. Coldingham, a.d. 874 ; see
Ebba, August 25 (L.).
3 Richard, B. Chichester, a.d. 1253 (L.).
4 Teyrnog, in Denbighshire, Tighearnach, B. Clones,
Ireland, a.d. 550 (L.).
Gwier, H. at St. Neots, Cormvall, before ()th cent.
Teyrnog or Tyrnog was of the family of Ceredig, and was
brother of Tyssul and Caranog. He lived in the sixth century.
A suspicion arises whether he be not the same as Tighearnach —
one of the many of that name commemorated in Ireland ; but
the most eminent was the Bishop of Clones, known also as S.
Ternoc, who was formerly patron of Llanderneau, but which now
honours S. Tenenan. Tigernach, of Clones and Clogher, was
held at the font by S. Bridget, and educated at Rosnat ; but
whether that was Candida Casa, or the Vallis Rosina, now S.
Davids, is uncertain. His preceptor there was Monennus. This
Tigernach died in 549, and his festival is observed in Ireland on
the same day as Teyrnog's in Wales. He is patron of Northill,
in Cornwall, where he is called S. Torney. Tigernach, or more
correctly Tighearnach (anglicised into Tierney), is the Irish
form of the Welsh Teyrnog. See also S. Tenenan, yi/Zy 16.
GwERiR or GuiER was an anchorite, who lived where now is
S. Neots, in Cornwall, and when Neot arrived there he took up
his residence in a cell that had formerly been occupied by this
ascetic.
15 Derfel Gadarn, C. Merionethshire, 6th cent.
Probus and Grace, CC. Cornwall.
Derfel Gadarn or "the Mighty" was a member of a
saintly family, brother of SS. Sulien, Cristiolus, and Rhystud.
-^
*-
-•5«
208
Lives of the Saifits.
[April 6.
He was famous as a warrior, and was present in the battle of
Camlan, in 542, where he greatly distinguished himself; but
the latter part of his life was devoted to religion, as a hermit in
Merionethshire. His image of wood, that was greatly venerated,
was taken to Smithfield in 1 538, and was there burned. Der-
fel's wooden "horse" and "stick" were in existence at Lland-
derfel not many years ago, and may be still. There Bryn
Derfel (Derfel's Hill) was much resorted to by the common
people at Easter, in order to have a ride on Derfel's horse.
Probus and Grace have a magnificent church dedicated to
them in Cornwall, with a tower splendidly wrought in carved
granite. They were probably Cornish saints, husband and wife,
according to tradition.
The church was made collegiate by Athelstan in 926. In
front of the chancel screen is the legend, "Jesus, hear us, thy
people, and send us Grace and Good for ever " — a play on the
names of the patrons. Two skulls found under the altar, at the
restoration of the church, are believed to be those of the two
saints, and are placed in a reliquary in the north wall of the
chancel. The proper name of the parish is Tressillian, or the
Habitation of Sulien, but it is commonly called Probus. The
village feast is on July 5, which is probably the right day ; but
there is also a fair there on April 5.
6 Elstan, B. Wilton^ a.d. 981.
Celsus, Abp. Armagh, a.d. 1128 (L.).
Elstan, a monk of Abingdon, trained under S. Ethelwold.
Whilst building the monastery the workmen had their food
supplied by Elstan, who acted as cook, and washed the dishes,
swept the floors, and did all the menial work. One day S.
Ethelwold chanced to find him thus engaged in scullery work,
and was surprised that he had not committed the dirty task to
an underling. The story is told by William of Malmesbury that
Ethelwold said, " This obedience of thine has caught me un-
awares ; but, as a good soldier, plunge your hand in the
boiling caldron, and pluck me forth a piece of meat." The
good disciple obeyed, and drew forth his hand unharmed.
Everything miraculous in this story depends on whether the
caldron was "boiling" or not. It was very easy for tradition
to magnify into a marvel a very simple occurrence ; and as
William of Malmesbury wrote in 1140, there intervened about
one hundred and eighty years between the incident and the
^-
-y.'*
-*
April 7.]
Celtic and Eno'lish Kalendar
209
record during which the story might grow. Elstan was after-
wards abbot of the house, and eventually became fifth Bishop
of Wilton. He died 981.
] Brynach,/4(^. C. Wales and North Devon, circa A.D. 450.
Llywelyn and Gwrnerth, CC. Montgomeryshire, 6t/i
cent.
GuRON or Goran, C. Bodmin, middle of 6th cent.
Brynach Wyddel, or " the Irishman," was married to Corth
or Cymorth, one of the daughters of Brychan, King of Breck-
nock. He was a priest, and spiritual instructor to the king and
his family. He had four children, all numbered among the
saints. Not only was he priest, but also abbot.
A Life in Latin, of the twelfth century, is apparently based on
Welsh ballads.
For a while he was in Armorica, and when he desired to come
to Wales he put a stone on the water, mounted it, and was
wafted over to Milford Haven, at the mouth of the Cleddau.
There the daughter of the prince became enamoured of him, but
as he resisted her advances, she sent men to murder him, and
one stabbed him with a lance. Thereupon a swarm of winged
ants fell on the man, and so stung him that he suffered great
torture and died. The saint then bathed his wound in a spring,
ever after called Ffynnon Goch, or the Red Well.
Finding the place too hot for him he went on to the river
Gwain, in Pembrokeshire, that flows into the sea at Fishguard,
but did not remain there long. He proceeded to the river
Caman, where an angel had informed him a site for a monas-
tery would be pointed out to him by a white wild sow and her
piglings. Here he lit a fire, and this was regarded as the
assertion of a right to the place. The lord of the district seeing
the smoke came hastily to know who had dared to light a fire ;
but he was a good man, and was at once pacified, and he not
only gave land to S. Brynach, but also committed his sons to
him for instruction. The saint now built a church at the foot
of Cam Ingli, above Nevern. Two stags from the forest drew
his car, and the cow that gave milk to the monastery was com-
mitted to the custody of a wolf. One day Maelgwn Gwynedd
came that way, killed and cut up the cow, but no fire would
heat the stew made of its flesh. Brynach then restored his cow
to life, and gave the king a good repast off loaves he plucked
VOL. XVI. O
*-
-*
*-
2IO
Lives of the Saints.
[April 8-9.
-*
from an ancient oak-tree that grew near, and the brook for the
occasion flowed with wine.
Brynach is said to have travelled much, and to have visited
Rome. A church in Devon, Braunton, is dedicated to him, and
is locally said to have been founded by him on his way home
from Italy. Perhaps he put into the bay for water, or repairs to
be done to the stone on which he floated. On the roof is a repre-
sentation of Brynach, or Branock as he is called at Braunton,
being the site of his monastery indicated by the sow and her
little pigs. Leland, in his Itinerary, says, " I forbear to speak
of S. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant
Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of
that church." This has long perished. Of Abel nothing is
known. The mediaeval biographer, not relishing the fact that
Brynach was a married man and the father of four children,
changed his story into one of temptation by a beautiful damsel,
daughter of a chieftain, and his strenuous resistance to her
seductions.
Llywelyn and Gwrnerth. Llywelyn was the son of
Tegonwy. He founded a religious house at Welshpool, and
ended his days at the monastery of Bardsey. Gwrnerth is said
to have been his son, but according to another account was his
brother, which is more probable. A religious poem by S. Tyssilio
called "The Colloquy of Llywelyn and Gwrnerth" is found in
the Red Book of Hergest. Both saints were commemorated on
the same day.
GuRON or Goran was a solitary who resided at Bodmin,
surrendered his cell to S. Petroc, and probably retired to Gorran,
near Mevagissy, where is a church dedicated to him. He died
in the middle of the sixth century. When Petroc came to
Bodmin, Guron very readily received him, surrendered his cell,
and went elsewhere.
8
Materiana, W. in Merionethshire and Cornwall, circa
A.D. 500.
DoTTO, Ab. Orkneys, a.d. 502.
Materiana, to whom two churches in Cornwall look as their
founder, i.e. Tintagel and Minster, was probably Madrun, a
daughter of Vortimer, who married Ynyr Gwent, petty king of
*
April 10-14.] Celtlc aud English Kalendar. 2 1 1
10
Gwent Below the Wood, or that portion of Monmouthshire that
comprised the Caldecott level and the rolling land south of
Wentwood. The chief town here was the old Roman city of
Caer Went (Venta Silurum). In this town Ynyr received S.
Tathan, a refugee from Armorica, who had been in Glamorgan-
shire, where he had met with annoyance from Gwynllyw, the
King of Wentloog. To him Ynyr gave land, and Talhan con-
structed a monastery. Ynyr is numbered among the saints as
well as his wife. Madrun's sister, Anna, was married to Cynyr
of Caer Gawch, the mother of Non, who bore S. David.
Madrun's own children were four, three of whom were saints.
Probably on the death of her husband Madrun retired from the
world. She took with her a handmaid, Anhun, and along with
her founded the church of Trawsfynydd, in Merionethshire.
Whether before or after this she went into Cornwall is not
known. It is worthy of notice that the church of Trevalga,
which lies between the two foundations of Materiana, is one
of S. Petroc's churches, and that Davidstow is not far off.
Petroc was probably cousin of Gwynllyw, who had retired
from the world, and lived near the Usk. The whole of this
district was thickly colonised from Gwent and Brecknock.
II GuTHLAC, H. Croyland, a.d. 714 (L.).
12
13 Buriana, v. Cornwall (also May 29).
WiNOC or GwYNOCH, B. Scotland, circa a.d. 878.
Caradog, P.C. Wales, a.d. 1124 (L.).
WiNOC or GuiNOCH was a bishop, and is said to have ex-
communicated the Scots in their war against the Picts, and to
have assisted King Kenneth by his advice and prayers in a great
battle, in which he completely broke the power of the enemy.
He is said to have died about 838.
14 GwODLOEW or Wyllow, C. Cornwall, end of 6th cent.
GwoDi.OEW was the son of Glywys the Cornishman, son of
S. Woolo, of Newport, or (iwynllyw Filwr. Glywys was called
a Cornishman because he left South Wales and settled in the
^ ^
212 Lives of the Saints. [April 15-17.
western peninsula, where, probably, he married, and where his
son remained and founded the church of Lanteglos, by Fowey,
where he is venerated under the name of S. Wyllow. His
father is called in Cornwall S. Gluvias.
According to the Welsh pedigrees, there was a son of
Gwynllyw, called Gwyddlew, the father of S. Cannen, whereas
Gwodloew is the son of Glywys the Comishman. But of
Gwyddlew nothing whatever is known, and we may be pretty
sure that there is a mistake, and that Gwodloew and Gwyddlew
are one and the same. That Gwodloew is the Gudwal who
became Bishop of Aleth, now Saint Malo, in or about 627, is
possible. The old Calendar of S. Meven and the Litany of
S. Vouge call him Guidgual ; but this can only be conjecture, as
no particulars are given us in the Breton legend as to his parents.
What is more probable is, that we have in Gwyddlew the original
founder of S. Olave's, in Exeter, and S. Olave's, at Poughill,
near Bude. Gwynllyw of Newport, now called Woolo, was by
the English transformed into S. Olavus, and it is likely enough
that the same process took place in Exeter and on the confines
of Cornwall.
There is an inscribed stone at Stowford, near Launceston,
with on it GUNGLEi, which in modern Welsh would be
Gwynllyw or Gwyngllew. This shows that a very similar
name was current in the sixth century in the district, which
is probably the date of the stone.
The church of Lanteglos, by Fowey, was dedicated, according
to Leland, to a hermit named Wyllow. In Wyllow it is probable
that we have again Gwodloew. If so, this would be his last
foundation. Leland says that Wyllow was murdered by a kins-
man named Mellyn. The Assize Roll of 12 Edward I. (12S4)
gives this dedication at Lanteglos, so also does a will by Laurence
Cok, dated 1502, and another by John Mohun, 1507.
T 5 Padarn, B. Cardiganshire and Radnorshire, and in
Brittany, circa 560 (L.); see also November i.
RUADAN, Ab. Lothra, in Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
16 Magnus, M. Orkney, a.d. mo (L.).
1 7 DoMNAN or DoNAN, H.M. Scotland, circa a.d. 600
(L.).
Stephen Harding, Ab. CiteaiLx, a.d. 1134 (I-.).
iji^ _ ^
*-
-*
April 18-20.1 Celllc and EugHsIi Kalendar. 2 1 3
18 Olcan, B. Ireland (see February 20).
Laserian, B. Leighlin, Ireland, a.d. 639 (L.).
Maildulf, H.C. Malmesbiiry, circa a.d. 673.
Maildulf or Maidulf was an Irish solitary, who about 660
appeared in the forest tract of Braden, off the Roman road from
Cirencester to Bath. This woodland was a northern continua-
tion of the great Selwood, and it ran, an unbroken sea of green,
as far as the outskirts of Bath. Into this green sea Maildulf
plunged, attracted by its solitude and its beauty, and there he
constructed a rude hermitage, and opened a school. The Irish
monks were at the time great masters of learning — Roman,
Greek, and even Hebrew. Maildulfs school became a great
centre of learning and of religion. One of his ablest and best
pupils was S. Aldhelm, who succeeded him, and who saw Mail-
dulfs burgh grow into an important abbey. The founder died
about 673. He is named in a document of Sergius I., in 701 or
thereabouts, as the founder of a church in honour of SS. Peter
and Paul.
19 Alphege, Abp. M. Canterbury, ad. 1012 (L.).
20 Ceadwalla, K. West Saxons, a.d. 689,
Ceadwalla mounted the West Saxon throne in 685, and
after crushing the rival under-kings of the house of Cerdic, he
prepared to extend his power. He fell on the kingdom of
Sussex, and killed the king, Ethelwalch, but was driven back.
He returned to the attack later with little better success. He
subdued the Isle of Wight with the deliberate intention of putting
all the inhabitants to the sword, and this he carried out with
ferocious, unpitying savagery, killing men, women, and children,
that he might replace the population with his own West Saxons,
the first colonists having been Jutes. Having accomplished his
bloody purpose, he handed over the spoil as vowed to S. Wilfrid,
who does not seem to have lifted a finger to avert the massacre,
and whose only eagerness was after the loot.
Ceadwalla threw down his crown in disgust in 688, and with
drew from the land to seek baptism at Rome. There he was
received by Pope Sergius I., who baptized him on Holy Satur-
day, and he died a few days after. The Pope ordered a laudatory
epitaph to be inscribed on the tomb of this murderous monster.
He died 689.
*-
2 14 Lives of the Saints. [airilzi.
2 1 Beuno, Ab. Wales, 6ih to 1th cents.
Maelrubh, M. Ireland and Scotland, a.d. 772.
Anselm, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1109 (L.).
Beuno was uncle and spiritual guide to S. Winefred ; he w as
grandson of Gwynllyw Filwr [see March 29). He was nearly
related to both S. Cadoc and S. Kentigern. He was a native
of Powys, and the son of the old age of his parents, who com-
mitted him to be educated by S. Tangwn, son of the Welsh bard-
saint Talhaiarn, a contemporary of Taliesin. Ynyr Gwent, who
married Madrun, daughter of Vortimer, "gave him a gold ring
and a crown," and gave up to him land and the people on it
to form a sacred tribe in the West of Herefordshire, at Llan-
veino, near Clodock. Later on Beuno went to Berriew, in Mont-
gomeryshire, where he was given lands also. But one day whilst
there he heard a Saxon shouting to his dogs to pursue a hare on
the further side of the Severn, and he at once resolved to leave
a place made odious to him, because within sound of the English
tongue. In a rage he returned sharply to his disciples, and
said, " My sons, put on your clothes and shoes, and let us leave
this place, for the nation of this man has a strange language
which is abominable, and I heard his voice. They have in-
vaded this land, and will keep it." Then he went deeper into
the Welsh land and visited S. Tyssilio, and remained with him
forty days. Thence he went to Cynan, son of Brochwel, king
in Merioneth, who gave him Gwyddelwern. One day some
nephews of Cynan came there and asked for food. Beuno killed
an ox, and began to cook it, but the young men became im-
patient and rude, and this roused the anger of the saint, and he
cursed one of the company, so that he died next day. Probably
he got on badly with the nephews ; anyhow, he left and went
to the banks of the Dee, and settled there. The king of the
country was one Caradog, who attempted to force Winefred
to become his mistress, a beautiful girl, daughter of the man
Temic, who had given shelter to Beuno, and when she ran
away from him, he cut off her head as she was taking refuge
in the church. The head fell within. At that moment Beuno
came up and cursed the king, who at once dissolved into a
puddle, and nothing solid of him was left. Then he put on
the girl's head again, and she was sound, but a spring gushed
from the place where her blood had fallen. This is the famous
well of S. Winefred in Flintshire.
Then Beuno went to Cadwallon and gave him a gold sceptre
*-
i^-
-*
April 21.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
215
"worth sixty cows," which Cynan, son of Brochwel, had given
him, and this was in Carnarvon.
The king gave him a tract of land that really belonged to a
widow and her son ; and whilst Beuno was building there the
widow came and remonstrated. Beuno was so angry with Cad-
wallon that he went to him and cursed him. But the matter
was compromised, and another piece of land was granted to
Beuno.
Now it happened that among the workmen employed by
Ynyr Gwent was a very good-looking youth, and the king's
daughter, Digwg, fell in love with him. The king "chose to
give the young man in marriage to his daughter, lest she should
have him in some other way." But the youth did not much
relish being saddled with a princess, was oppressed with her
highness and mightiness, or ashamed to show her the ancestral
quarters, and whilst conducting her to his home took occasion,
during her sleep, to cut off her head and leave her. He was in-
cautious enough to commit the crime on the lands of S. Beuno,
who, discovering the corpse, set on the head again, whereupon
the princess sat up, opened her eyes, and asked what had
happened. On learning the circumstances she resolved not
to pursue the runaway husband, but to remain near S. Beuno.
A fountain sprang up here, also, where her blood had fallen.
Soon after Digwg's brother, Iddon, came to investigate into the
matter, and understanding that the husband had bolted with
"the horses, the gold and silver" that belonged to Digwg, and
had gone to Aberffraw, he asked Beuno to go with him after
the youth. Beuno did so, and when Iddon saw the husband he
cut off his head. Beuno immediately replaced his head, also, on
the shoulders, and the man lived. Whether he was reconciled
to his wife is not related. Beuno now obtained a settlement
near Aberffraw, and there died.
This strange legend is at least of this use, that it shows us
how the Celtic saints moved about from place to place with
extreme restlessness, founding churches in different localties.
Beuno lived during parts of the sixth and seventh centuries.
He was buried, it is said, at Clynnog, but the honour is also
claimed for Bardsey and Nevin. The Jesuit College of S. Beuno
is at Tremeirchion, near S. Asaph. There are two fourteenth-
century Lives in Welsh of S. Beuno, and he also figures in the
Life of S. Winefred. A saying attributed to him is, "From
death flight will not avail."
Maelrubh was born in 642, and was descended from Niall
of the Nine Hostages. In 671, at the age of twenty-nine, he
*-
-*
Ki-
2l6
Lives of the Saints.
[April 22-27.
22
went to Scotland and founded Apurcrossan, where he presided
for fifty-one years. According to Irish accounts he died a
natural death, but the Scottish story makes him to have been
murdered by Norse pirates in 722. In Scotland he is com-
memorated on August 27.
23 George of Cappadocia, M., circa 285 (L.).
Dyfnan, C. Wales, circa 460.
Ibar, B. Begery, Ireland, circa a.d. 500 (L.).
Dyfnan was one of the family of Brychan, reimtcd to have
been a son. He founded a church in Anglesea, where he was
buried about 460.
24 Mellitus, B. London, and Abp. Canterbury, A.D. 624
(L.).
Egbert, Mk. lona, a.d. 729 (L.).
Translation o/S. Ivo, B. Huntingdon, a.d. iooi.
25 Maughold or Maccald, B. Man, early 6th cent. (L.).
26
27 Enoder or Cynidr, Ab. Brecknockshire and Corn-
wall, 6th cent.
Cynidr was son of Cynon, son of Ceredig of Cardigan, by
Rhiengar, daughter of Brychan. Cynidr founded Llangynidr,
on the Usk, and Render Church, in Herefordshire, called
Llanncinitir in the Liber Latidavensis. He had a chapel,
according to Dugdale, in an island on the Wye at Winforlon,
" Capella S. Kenedri." That S. Enoder or Enodoc, in Corn-
wall, was one of his foundations is probable, as so many of
his family settled there. The name S. Enoder is to this day
popularly known in north Cornwall as Sinkinedy, i.e. S. Kenedy.
S. Cynidr was buried at Glasbury. The Latin clerks, knowing
nothing of the native saints, transformed Enoder or Cynidr into
>£<-
*-
-*
April 28-30.] CelUc and English Kalendar. 2 1 7
Athenodorus, a pupil of Origen and a martyr under Aurelian.
In Brittany he is known as S. Quidi or Quidic. A chapel is
dedicated to him in the parish of S. Caradoc, in the diocese of
S. Brieuc.
28 Cronan, Ab. Roscrea, Ireland, circa a,d. 615 (L.).
WiNWALOE, C. {see March 3).
WiNVVALOE. The Life of this saint, by Wrdestan, has been
printed in the Analecta Bollandiana, T. vii. (iS88).
29 Wilfrid II., B. York, a.d. 744.
Wilfrid II. was educated at Whitby under S. Hilda, and
was one of the five holy prelates whom Bede mentions as having
issued from that house. Wilfrid attached himself to the service
of S. John of Beverley as attendant priest and master of his
household. When S. John retired from his see he consecrated
Wilfrid to be his successor. After some years he retired like
his master, and ended his days at Ripon, in or about 744.
30 Cynwyl, C. Carmarthenshire, Cardigan, and Carnar-
vonshire, 6th cent.
Erkonvvold, B. London, Ab. Chertsea, a.d. 693 (L.).
Cynwyl, the son of Dunawd and brother of Deiniol, the
first bishop of Bangor. He assisted in the foundation of Bangor
Iscoed. After a while he went south and settled in Carmar-
thenshire. He took up his residence on a promontory of land
between two streams, confluents of the Cothi, and seems to have
obtained control over a large tract of land, some fourteen to
sixteen miles across, and extending from the mountainous core
that throws out two arms, between which lies the great basin of
the Cothi. Over the whole of this region he must have exercised
jurisdiction. Five miles south the rock of Pendinas shoots up
in the midst of the basin, and this certainly was at the time the
residence of the chief of the district who gave to Cynwyl a place
on which to establish his settlement at the head of the basin, on
the Annell, that flows into the Cothi, and hard by the gold
mines of Ogofau, that had been worked by the Romans.
Here, then, Cynwyl resided. To be away from the throng of
men, and to be alone with God, he was wont to retire up the
^^-
-^
2i8 Lives of the Saints. [Aprilso.
lovely valley of the Annell, between the heathery and bracken-
covered mountain sides, to a point where a great boulder that
has fallen from above lies at the junction of a little rill and the
Annell, where it conies down foaming from its mountain cradle.
Here the old saint was wont to kneel in the bed of the stream
and pray, till his knees had worn two holes in the rock. Such
is the local legend. More probably he employed the boulder
top. But till within the memory of man, the farmers were wont
to drive their cattle to this spot and scoop the water out of the
hollows over their backs as a preservative against all ills.
There are three saints named Conval in the Scottish kalen-
dars ; one was a disciple of S. Kentigern, and his name
occurs as among the bishops next after Kentigern in the
Litany of Dunkeld. It has been suspected that Conval and
Cynwyl are one ; but according to the Scottish authorities,
Conval was an Irish prince, who floated over to Scotland on
a stone, and landed on the banks of the Clyde. The stone
was afterwards called S. Conval's chariot, and men and cattle
were brought to touch it to be healed. His body was sup-
posed to lie at Cumnock. Another Conval was trained at
Crossraguel. He is commemorated on September 14, and the
first on September 28. A third Conval was king, and is in-
voked as such in the Litany of Dunkeld. He was a ruler in
the time of S. Columba. There was again another, who was
king in 819, and reigned till 824.
Whether the disciple of Kentigern was Cynwyl, who after-
wards settled at Caio, or not, cannot be decided. There are
several reasons for believing in an association of Kentigern with
the Apostle of the Cothi Valley, but the Welsh authorities do
not mention any expedition by him to Scotland, although that
he went there is by no means unlikely.
Cynwyl also had an establishment at Cynwyl Elfed, in Car-
marthenshire, and at Aberporth, in Cardiganshire. Penrhos,
in Carnarvonshire, is also dedicated to him. Close to both
Cynwyl Gaio and Cynwyl Elfed are dedications to the Pump-
saint, that is, to the Five Brother Saints, sons of Cynyr Farfdrwch,
and of the family of Cunedda. Cynyr lived at Caio, and it is
quite possible that he may have given the land to his saintly
sons, who received and transferred it to Cynwyl, and placed
themselves under his direction. They were certainly older than
he. The Five Brothers lie at Pumpsaint, in Caio parish, but
their church is in ruins. Some association between them and
Cynwyl there must have been. There was formerly a church
in Brittany in the time of S. Convoyon, Abbot of Redon, in the
* 4
-*
May 1-3.] Celtic and EngUsk Kaleudar. 219
middle of the ninth century, dedicated to him, as S. Cumvolus,
so that apparently those of the British who fled to Armorica
before the Saxons carried with them the thought of the apostle
of the Cothi Valley. For an account of the Five Saintly Brothers
see November i.
MAY
1 BuRlANA, V. Cornwall, also April 13, May 12 ana 29,
and June 4 and 19.
Asaph, B. Flintshire, 6th cent. (L.).
Translation of S. BiiioCH, B. Wales and Brittany,
6th or 'jth cent. (L.) ; also August 8.
Kellach, B. Ireland, ^th cent. (L.).
2 Gluvias, C Cornwall, 6th cent.
Gluvias or Glywys the Cornishman, was one of the sons
of Gwynllyw the Warrior (see March 29), Prince of Gwentloog,
who was the founder of S. Woollos, Newport, and of Gwladys
of Brecknock, who lies buried under a mound in Lord Tredegar's
Park. Why Glywys was called "of Cornwall" does not
appear clearly, but he probably fell under the influence of
his brother S. Cadoc of Llancarvan, who certainly exercised
authority and made a foundation in Cornwall, and it is pro-
bable that he sent his brother Gluvias to superintend them.
After a long time spent in Cornwall he returned to his native
land, and founded a church at Coed Cernw, "The Cornish-
man's Wood." A parish bears his name in Cornwall. His son
Gwodloew, under the name of Wyllow, is founder and patron
of Llanteglos, by Fowey (see April 14).
3 FuMAC, B. Botriphnie, date not known.
Ethelwin, B. Lindsey, a.d. 720.
Ethelwin was second bishop of Lindsey after its separation
from the diocese of Mercia. A part of his life was spent in
Ireland, where he studied, the renown of the learning in the
Irish monasteries being great. But he returned to his native
•J«-
-*
* — —^— ►J,
2 20 Lives of the Saints. imay4-i..
land, and at the request of Ethelred was consecrated bishop by
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury. This was about 680,
and he died in 720, having been given Eadgar as coadjotor in
701 on account of his infirmities.
4 Melangell or Monacella {see May 27).
5 Hydroc, C. Cornwall^ ^th cent.
Hydroc. The church of Llanhydrock, in Cornwall, bears
this dedication, and the parish revel is held on this day.
6 Eadbert, B. Liiidisfarne, a.d. 698 (L.).
7 Lintard or Letard, B. at Canterbury; also February
24, IV hie h see (L.).
John of Beverley, Abp. York, a.d. 721 (L.).
8 Indract and Company, MM.; see February 5 (L.).
Indract and Company are said to have been Irish, and to
have settled near Glastonbury, where they were murdered.
Probably Indract was the Abbot of lona murdered by the English
on March 12, 853. It is said that Ina, King of Wessex, brought
the relics to Glastonbury, but this is doubtless a mistake, and
for Ina we must suppose Edgar to be meant.
9 GoFOR, C. Monmouthshire, uncertain date.
GoFOR. A saint of unknown date. He is the patron of
Llanover, Monmouthshire, in which are, or were, nine springs
close to each other, called S. Gofor's Well.
10 CoMGAL, Ab. Bangor, in Ireland, a.d. 601 (L.).
11 Fremund, M. Offchurch, Wanvickshire, circa 796.
*-
May 12-14.] Celtic and Eriglish Kalendar. 221
1 2 BuRiANA, V. Cornwall. The parish feast is held on
this day at S. Burian, as being old S. Burian's
Day, that day being May i {see May 29).
Ethelhard, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 803.
Ethelhard was first Bishop of Winchester, and appointed to
Canterbury in 780. He corresponded with Alcuin, and died 803.
I 3 Mael and Sulien, CC. Wales, early 6th cent.
Merewenna, V. RttiHsey, circa 970.
Mael or Mahael was one of the companions of S. Cadfan
from Armorica to Britain. He became a member of the College
of S. lUtyd, and afterwards removed to Bardsey. Sulien, called
also Silin, with his brothers, Rhystud and Cristiohis, accom-
panied S. Cadfan from Armorica, and also retreated fmally to
Bardsey. There are dedicated to him the churches of Llan-
silin and Wrexham, in Denbighshire, and Silian, in Cardigan-
shire. (See his Life, November 8.) He is coupled with Mael
in tl\e dedication of the churches of Corwen, in Merionethshire,
and Cwm, in Flintshire.
Merewenna, Virgin Abbess of Rumsey, after it had been
remodelled by Edgar in 967, was probably of British origin,
judging from her name. She must not be confounded with either
S. Morwenna of Cornwall, or S. Modwenna of Burton. She
died about 970. S. Modwenna died three centuries earlier, and
Morwenna five centuries before.
14 Dyfan, M. Glamorganshire, 2nd cent. ; also May 24.
Dyfan or Deruvianus was one of the company of whom
Elfan, Ffagan, and Medwy were others, said to have been sent
by Pope Eleutherius to Britain at the request of Lucius. The
names come from the Book of Llandaff, a compilation of the
twelfth century, and from William of Malmesbury. The whole
story is more than doubtful. Dyfan was certainly a Briton, and
his pedigree has been preserved. Medwy and Elfan were also
British. Churches dedicated to these saints are in the neigh-
bourhood of Llandaff, and there only ; consequently, it is pro-
bable that there were such people. It is also possible that they
may have visited Rome. That is about all that can be said
concerning them. We may conclude from the name of the
church dedicated to S. Dyfan, Merthyr Dyfan, i.e. his Mar-
tyrium, that he suffered martyrdom.
>^-
-*
*-
' 2 2
Lives of the Saints.
[May is-iQ.
-*
15 Britwin, Ab. Beverley, a.d. 733 (L.).
t6 Carnech, ^^. B. Ireland, circa a.d. 530 (L.).
Carantog or Caranog, Ab. B. Cardiganshire and
Cornwall. In Ireland called Cairnech, dth cent.
(L.).
Brendan, Ab. Clonfcrt, a.d. 577 (L.).
Simon Stock, C. England and Bordeaux, a.d. 1265
(L.).
Caranog or Carantog, of whom the life is given in the
text, is patron of a church in Cornwall. Both Wales and Ireland
claim to have given him birth. In Ireland he is called Cair-
nech. When the Exeter Domesday was compiled, the Church
of Crantock, in Cornwall, was already in existence.
Among the rocks on the cost of Llangranog, in Cardiganshire,
is one formed like a throne, which is called the Eisteddfa (seat)
of Carannog. According to the Welsh pedigrees, Caranog was
the son of Corun, grandson of Cunedda. He is honoured as
well in Brittany, in the diocese of S. Pol de Leon.
17 Mathernus, H.C. Cornwall, circa a.d. 460 (L.).
Cathan, C. Carmarthenshire, circa a.d. 600.
Cathan, B. Bide, circa a.d. 710.
Mathernus or Madron is the patron of a church in Corn-
wall. Mr. Borlase conjectures that Llanpadarn has been
corrupted into Madron. This does not seem probable, as there
does not seem in Cornish to have been such a permutation of
p to m. He was probably a local saint, or one connected with
Brittany, where he is also honoured, and two churches are dedi-
cated to him.
Cathan was the son of Cawrdaf, son of Caradog Freichfras,
thus being of princely family. Cawrdaf was prince of Brecknock.
Cathan passed to Scotland, and became a bishop in Bute.
18 Elfgiva, Q.W. Shaftesbury, a.d. 971 (L.).
19 Alcuin, P.Mk. at Tours, a.d. 804 (L.).
Dunstan, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 988 (L.).
*-
-^
*-
-*
MAY20.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 223
20 CoLLEN, C. Denbighshire^ and as Colan in Cornwall,
1th cent.
Ethelbert, K.M. Hereford, a.d. 792 (L.).
CoLLEN was a Welsh saint of the seventh century. He is
the patron of Llangollen in Denbighshire, and Colan in Corn-
wall. According to some of the Welsh pedigrees he was the
son of Pedrwn, the son of Coleddog (mentioned in the Triads as
one of the "Three Ineloquent Men of the Court of Arthur") ;
but, according to others, the son of Gwynog, of the family of
Caradog Freichfras. His Life, written in Welsh, and still un-
translated, says that he was the son of Gwynog, and adds that
his mother was Ethni Wyddeles (the Irishwoman), the daughter
of Matholwch, an Irish princeling. His Life states that he went
to be educated to Orleans, where he remained for eight years
and a half, during the wars of Julian the Apostate, which is an
absurdity. Just at that time, in order to bring to a speedy
termination the incessant wars between the Pagans and the
Christians, a Pagan of the name of Bras challenged, as the
champion of Paganism, to fight any Christian that might be
pitted against him, laying down that the losing side should
henceforth adopt the religion of the conqueror. To this the
Pope consented, but when he came to look for his man he could
find no one that would consent to enter the combat. However,
he was directed at last by a voice from heaven to S. Collen, who
was at that time at Porth Hamwnt. The challenge was accepted
without the slightest hesitation, and both met, armed for the
conflict. Collen, in the first encounter, had the misfortune to
have his hand a little bruised, but Bras very kindly gave him a
little ointment to put upon it, at the same time endeavouring to
persuade him to give in, and believe in his Pagan god. The
hand was forthwith healed, but instead of returning the ointment
box, Collen threw it into the river, lest either should get further
benefit from it. This time Collen felled his antagonist, who
implored him not to kill him, and promised to embrace the
Christian religion. He was in due time baptized by the Pope,
and thereupon "the whole Greek nation believed and was
baptized." As a souvenir of this signal victory, the Pope gave
Collen a wonderful lily, which he afterwards brought to this
country, "and it is said that that lily is still at Worcester."
Collen afterwards came to Glastonbury, where in three months'
time he was elected abbot. This post he soon resigned for a
mode of life that was "heavier and harder," which consisted
-*
^ : >}«
224 Lives of the Saints. [May 21-22.
principally of preaching here and there. He again got tired of
this, and returned to Glastonbury, where everything went on
quite smoothly for five years, when he happened to quarrel with
some of the people, and, cursing them, left for " the mountain of
Glastonbury " (probably Glastonbury Tor), and made his cell in a
quiet spot beneath a rock. As he was in his cell one day, he
heard two men talking about Gwyn ab Nudd, and saying that
he was ihe King of Annwn (the Under-World) and the Fairies.
CoUen put his head out, and told them to hold their peace, as
those were merely demons. They told him to hold his peace,
and, besides, he would have to meet Gwyn face to face. By-
and-by Collen heard a knocking at his door, and in answer
got the reply, " It is I, the messenger of Gwyn ab Nudd, King
of Annwn, bidding you to come to speak with him on the top of
the hill by mid-day." The saint persistently refused to go day
after day, until at last he was threatened with the words, " If
you don't come, Collen, it will be the worse for you." This
disconcerted him, and, taking some holy water with him, he
went. On reaching the place, Collen beheld there the most
beautiful castle that he had ever seen, with the best-appointed
troops ; a great number of musicians with all manner of instru-
ments ; horses with young men riding them ; handsome, sprightly
maidens, and everything that became the court of a sumptuous
king. When Collen entered, he found the king sitting in a
chair of gold. Collen was welcomed by him, and asked to seat
himself at the table to eat, adding that beside what he saw
thereon, he should have the rarest of all dainties, and plenty
of every kind of drink. Collen said, " I will not eat the tree-
leaves." "Hast thou ever," asked the king, "seen men better
dressed than these in red and blue?" Collen said, "Their
dress is good enough, for such kind as it is." " What kind is
that?" asked the king. Collen said that the red on the one
side meant burning, and the blue on the other, cold. Then he
sprinkled holy water over them, and they all vanished, leaving
behind them nothing but green tumps.
Collen certainly passed into Brittany, as the church of Lan-
golen, near Quimper, in ancient Cornouaille, venerates him as
founder.
In some old Welsh kalendars his festival day is given as the
2 1 St.
21 GoDRiCK, H. Finchale, a.d. 1170 (L.).
22
GWELY MELANGELL.
Appendix Vol., p. 224.]
tfl _ ^
May 23-27.] Celtic a7id E7iglish Kalendar. 225
23 William, M. Rochester, a.d. 1201 (L.).
William. P'lom the Annals of the Church of Rochester it
appears that his death took place in 1201.
24 Ffagan, C Glamorganshire, 2nd cent.; also August 2>.
25 Aldhelm, B. Sherborne, a.d. 709 (L.).
26 Augustine, Abp. Canterbury, Apostle of Kent, a.d. 604
(L.).
2 7 Melangell, v. Wales, end of 6th cent. ; also January
3 1 , and May 4.
Bede the Venerable, Mk. farrow, in Northumber-
land, a.d. 734 (L.).
Melangell or Monacella was a daughter of Cyfwlch, the
son of Tudwal, according to some accounts, but of Tudvval
according to others, and was descended from the Emperor
Maximus and his British wife Elen. Her mother was an Irish-
woman. The story goes that her father desired to marry her to
a chieftain under him, but either she disliked the man or the
thought of marriage, and determined to run away. Accordingly
she found an opportunity to escape, and secreted herself at
Pennant, one of the most lonely and lovely spots in Mont-
gomeryshire, at the head of the Tanat. Her story is repre-
sented on the frieze of the carved oak screen of the church
there.
In this spot, sleeping on bare rock, she remained for fifteen
years. One day Brochwel Ysgythrog, Prince of Powys, was
hunting and in pursuit of a hare, when puss escaped into a
thicket, and took refuge under the robe of a virgin of great
beauty, whom the huntsman discovered. She faced and drove
back the hounds. The huntsman then put his horn to his lips,
and there it stuck as if glued. Upon this up came the prince,
and he at once granted a parcel of land to the saint, to serve as
a sanctuary, and bade her found there a convent. This she did,
and she lived in a cell which still remains, though somewhat
altered, at the east end of the church. She was buried in the
church, after her called Pennant Melangell, and fragments of a
VOL. XVI. P
*
*-
2 26 Lives of the Saints. [May 28-29.
very beautiful shrine remain built into the walls, but sufficient to
allow of its reconstruction.
The cell of S. Melangell is, as said, to the east of the church,
and has no communication with it. It goes Ijy the name of
Cell y Bedd, or Cell of the Grave, and it has a door and a win-
dow. In this originally stood the shrine. Her gwely, or bed, lies
on the opposite side of the valley, a quarter of a mile south of
the church.
Melangell is considered the patroness of hares, which are
termed her Iambs. Until last century so strong a superstition
prevailed that no person would kOl a hare in the parish ; and
even later, when a hare was pursued by dogs, it was believed
that if any one cried "God and Melangell be with thee," it
would surely escape. In the Welsh calendars she is also
commemorated on January 31 and on May 4-
28 Lanfranc, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1089.
29 BuRiANA, V, Cormvall; also April 13, May i and 12,
June 4 and 19.
Erbin, C. Wales, as Ervan in Cormvall, circa a.d,
450-
Dagan, B. Ireland and Scotland, circa a.d. 609.
Translation of S. Dyfrig or Dubricius.
BuRiANA. This saint is commemorated on many days in
Cornwall, but this is the special day of her cult ; on the same
day in Ireland, Bruinech the Slender, daughter of Crimthan. She
came to England along with S. Piran (Kieran). In the Life of S.
Kieran we are told, " The mother of the saint, who had become
a faithful Christian and holy servant of God through the ministry
of her son, wished to reside with him, so he built her an abode
not far from his cell, and she dwelt there with a community of
devout women, whom she had gathered about her: among these
was Bruinech, a virgin exceedint;Iy fair, and daughter of a
chieftain. The holy mother of S. Kieran loved her deeply, be-
cause she was her foster-child, and also because she was as
lovely in character as in person. But the chief of the country of
Hy Fiach, by name Dymna, having heard of her beauty, came
with soldiers and carried her off from her cell. Many days he
kept her imprisoned in his rath, for he was bewitched by her
*-
-¥*
H-«-
May 2g.]
Celtic and Enzlish Kalendar.
<3
227
beauty. Then Kieran arose and came to Dymna, to demand his
sister ; but on no account would the chief ijive her up. ' Never,'
said he scornfully, ' will I let her go, unless to-morrow at day-
break a cuckoo shall wake me from sleep.' It was mid-winter,
and in the night there was a great fall of snow, but not a flake
fell where the man of God and his companions tarried. When
morning dawned, behold on every turret of the chieftain's castle
a cuckoo was perched, uttering plaintive cries. The tyrant arose
in alarm, threw himself before the saint, and dismissed the
damsel." However, the chief was quailed only for a while, and
he recommenced his persecution. According to the legend,
Bruinech died of fright, but was brought to life again by S.
Kieran — that is to say, she fainted, and was revived. When
Kieran left Ireland and came to Cornwall he must have taken
the virgin with him, or rather, his mother took her, to avoid
further persecution.
" Nothing has been recorded of S. Buriana's life and labours in
Cornwall, except the general tradition that she spent her days
in good works and great sanctity; but the place where she dwelt
was regarded as holy ground for centuries, and can still be
pointed out. It lies about a mile south-east of the parish church
which bears her name, beside a rivulet on the farm of Bosliven,
and the spot is called the Sentry or Sanctuary. The crumbling
ruins of an ancient structure still remain there, and traces of
extensive foundations have been found adjoining them. If not
the actual ruins, they probably occupy the site of the oratory
in which Athelstan, after vanquishing the Cornish king, knelt
at the shrine of the saint, and made his memorable vow that,
if God would crown his expedition to the Scilly Isles with
success, he would on his return build and endow there a church
and college in token of his gratitude, and in memory of his
victories. It was on that wild headland, about four miles from
Land's End, that S. Buriana took up her abode ; and a group
of saints from Ireland, who were probably her friends and com-
panions, and who seem to have landed on our shores at the
same time, occupied contiguous parts of the same district.
There she watched and prayed with such devotion, that the fame
of her goodness found its way back to her native land ; and
thenceforward Bruinsech the Beautiful, by which designation
she had been known there, was enrolled in the catalogue of
Irish saints ; but her Christian zeal was spent in the Cornish
parish that perpetuates her name." — (J. Adams: "Chronicles
of Cornish Saints," in the Journal of the Royal Institution
of Cornwall, 1S73.)
*
^
228 Lives of the Saints. [May 30-31.
Erbin was a son of Constantine the Cornish king, and brother
of Digain. Erbin was father of Geraint, Prince of Devon. lie
was in all probability uncle of the Constantine of Cornwall
inveighed against with such gall by Gildas. (See, for fuller
notice of him, January 13, the day on which he is also comme-
morated.)
Dagan was a Celtic saint, educated at Banchor, in Ireland.
He mistrusted Augustine, and resented his claims to exercise
authority over bishops of an ancient church that had existed for
three centuries at least in Britain before he appeared on the scene.
He refused to break bread and eat under the same roof with .S.S.
Laurence and Mellitus, so wrathful at their astounding pretensions
was this stalwart old saint.
Tra7islation of S. Dyfrig or DUBRICIUS. His body was
taken in 1 120 from Bardsey Island, where it reposed, to be en-
shrined in Llandaff Cathedral.
30 TuDGLYD, C. Wales, 6th cent.
Walstan, C Baber, in Norfolk, a.d. 1016.
TuDGLvn was one of the sons of Seithenyn, and when his
father's territories were overwhelmed by the sea, he and his
brothers, left without earthly inheritance, sought one above that
was heavenly and eternal. They became members of the college
of Dunawd at Bangor Iscoed, on the Dee. There are no churches
founded by him or dedicated to him in Wales. He belongs to
the sixth century.
Walstan was the son of wealthy parents at Baber, near
Norwich. From them he received a pious education. At the
age of twelve he renounced his inheritance, and engaged himself
on a farm at Cossey, in the neighbourhood, and remained as a
poor humble farm-servant till the day of his death, unmarried,
and setting such an example of piety, that after his death he was
regarded as a saint. That he was the son of rich parents is
almost certainly a fable, invented to enhance his merits. He
was probably born in the same class of life in which he lived and
died. The date of his decease is 1016.
31
A — — 144
► ^-
juNE 1-3.] Celtic and Etiglish Kalendar.
229
JUNE
1 RoNAN, H. Brittany, 6th cent. (L.); see also Rumon,
January 4.
Tegla, V. Denbighsliirc and Radnorshire, A.D. 750.
WiSTAN, K.M. Evesham, a.d. 849 (L.).
Tegla or Thecla is commemorated on this day in Wales,
also on September 23 and October 15. At Llandegla, in
Denbighshire, her Holy Well was celebrated for the cure of
epilepsy, called S. Tegla's evil. It is questionable whether
this saint be the companion of S. Paul, because a dedication
of the kind would have been quite contrary to Celtic usage.
It is probable that the Welsh Tegla was some local saint.
September 23 is the day on which the companion of S. Paul
is commemorated, and the Welsh Tegla having June i and
October 15, looks much as though she were some different
personage. She must not be confounded with Thecla, Abbess
ofKitzingen (October 15), who almost certainly was a Saxon,
and was a disciple of S. Boniface. It is due to a confusion of
persons that the Welsh Tegla is commemorated on October 15.
2 BoDFAN, C. Carnarvonshire, middle of ph cent.
Odo, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 959; also July 4, ivhich
see (L.).
BoDFAN, son of Helig, whose territory was destroyed by the
great inundation that formed the Lafan Sands. This low land
on the coast of Carnarvon now suffered a like fate to that which
had overtaken the cantref of Gwaelod nearly a century before.
The Lafan Sands are in Beaumaris Bay. lielig, called Foel, or
"the Bald," embraced a religious life together with his son.
The date is about the middle of the seventh century.
3 CoEMGEN or Kevin, Ab. Gkndalough, a.d. 618 (L.).
CwYFAN, C. Anglesey, Carnarvonshire, and Denbigh-
shire, 1th cent.
Malcolm, K. Scotland, a.d. 1093.
-*
230 Lives of the Saints. [June4-6.
CwYFAN or CwYFEN, in Irish Ciarban, was the son of
Brwyneu Hen, or "the Aged," of the family of Caradog
Freichfras. Sometimes on June 2. For the 2nd we have
Welsh Almanacks of last century, and a note by Edward Llwyd,
given in "Celtic Remains." For the 3rd some glosses, in an
old hand, in a book of " Preces Privatse," published in 1573;
the Calendar in "Allvvydd neu Agoriad Paradwys," 1670;
"lolo MSS Cal.," and Rees. The 3rd, therefore, is the best
supported day.
4 Nennocha or Ninnoc, V. Abss. Brittany^ Zth cent.
(L.) ; see also p. 107.
Breacha, V. Cornwall, ^th or 6th cent. (L.).
BURIANA, V. (see May 29).
Petroc or Pedrog, Ab. Carmarthenshire, Pembroke-
shire, Cornwall, and Devon, 6th cent. (L.).
Croidan, Medan, Dagan, CC. disciples of S. Petroc,
end of 6th cent.
5 TuDNO, C. Carnarvonshire, early 6th cent.
Boniface, Abp. M. Mainz, a.d. 755 (L.).
TuDNO, the son of Seithenyn, and brother of SS. Gwynodl
and Merin, was founder of Llandudno, in Carnarvonshire (see
GviynoAX, January i). The Whetstone of Tudno was one of
the Thirteen Treasures of the Isle of Britain, "which Merlin
took with him when he sailed away in the House of Glass,
no more to be seen." The whetstone would sharpen the sword
of every hero immediately, and always destroy the weapon of a
coward. According to another account, it so poisoned the blade
of whoever employed it, that whoever was wounded with the
sword that had been whetted was sure to die.
6 Gurwal, B. Brittany, 6th cent. (L.).
GuLWAL or GUDWAL, B. Brittany and Ghent, ^th cent.
(L.).
Gurwal, whose life is given in the text, is thought to have
been the same as S. Gudwal, and if so is probably Gwodloew,
► ^-
JUNE7-8.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 231
son of Glywys of Cornwall, who was one of the sons of
Gwynllyw Filwr. But if so, then he cannot be the same as
Wyllow, the martyr of Lanteglos (see April 14). Gurwal or
Giidwal succeeded S. Malo as Bishop of Aleth in 627. In the
ancient Kalendar of S. Meen, and in the Litanies of S. Vougay,
he is called Guidgual, and his festival is observed in the diocese
of ,S. Malo on June 7. But in most martyrologies he is inserted
on the 5th.
7 CoLMAN, B. Dromorc, in Ireland, ']th cent. (L.).
Meriadoc, B. Valines, Brittany, ']th cent.
Robert, Ab. Newininstcr, in Northumberland, a.d.
1159 (L.).
Meriadoc was of the' royal race of Cynan Meiriadogor Conan
of Brittany, and was born about 626, and brought up in the
court of Armorica. He devoted himself to the ecclesiastical
state, and received orders from the hands of Hincweten, Bishop
of Vannes ; but instead of labouring for the salvation of the
souls of other men, he considered only the perfection of his own,
and for this object retired into a solitude near Pontivy, where
he made a point of conscience of bending his knee a thousand
times a day at the name of God, and as often during the night,
which, as a judicious writer, the Pere Lobineau, reckons, implies
eighty-six or eighty-seven genuflexions per hour, or about one
and a half per minute. On the death of S. Hincweten, Meriadoc
was elected in his room, and as he refused the dignity, was
carried from his cell by force. He seems to have gained great
goodwill by his gentleness and pitifulness to all in trouble, and
several churches in Brittany are dedicated to him. His popu-
larity extended to Cornwall, and he is the patron saint of Cam-
borne. A curious old Cornisii miracle-play exists that contains
his legend.
8 Lkvan, C Cornwall, 6th cent.
William, Abp. York, a.d. 1154 (L.).
Lf.van or Levin is supposed to have been an Irish saint
who came to Cornwall. It is possible that his name may
be a corruption of Silvanus ; in Carew's " Cornwall," Porth-
levan is called the Port of Siluan, and it is significant that
in the parish of Burian, his fellow Irish saint, there was a
chapel dedicated to S. Siluan. If so, it is also possible that
one of the earliest inscribed stones in S. Just, not far off,
bearing the inscription " Sil ... hie jacet," may mark his
tomb. S. Just is not far from S. Levan, and a Celtic church
was named after the founder, and not the saint buried in it. Of
S. Levan no records remain, but plenty of local legend, which
is not more untrustworthy than the collections of fables concern-
ing Celtic saints made by biographers in the twelfth century
in Ireland and Wales. S. Levan's cell is still shown at Bodellen,
in the parish that bears his name. Between that and the church
is a three-cornered garden ; this belonged to a woman named
Joanna. She was there one Sunday picking pot-herbs, and
seeing S. Levan go on his way to the sea to fish, she abused him
for desecrating the holy day. He retorted that there was no
more harm in fishing than in picking vegetables. Angry because
she answered him again, he declared that, if any girl were
baptized in the water from his well and called Joanna, she would
prove a bigger fool than his interlocutor. From that day to this
no parents will have a daughter so named at S. Levan, unless
baptized at S. Sennen. The path by which the saint walked to
the rocks from which he fished is said to be greener than any
other turf, even to this day. On the south side of the church is
his seat, a rock split in two, and it is said that the split widens
annually, and when so wide that a pack-horse with panniers can
pass between, then the world will come to an end.
One day, as S. Levan was fishing, he caught two breams on
his line. Not w.inting so much, he threw both back into the
sea, but again caught both ; he caught them a third time, and
then saw that there was some reason for it, so he took them
home, and found there his sister Breacha, who had come over
with her two children to lunch, and who was hungry herself,
and the children simply ravenous. These latter ate so greedily,
that both choked with the fish-bones. This produced a lasting
coolness between Breacha and her brother.
But there is another conjecture admissible, relative to S.
Levan, that he was the disciple of S. Tugdual. This Levan
drew up a collection of the grants made to his master.
Madryn or Materiana {see April 9).
CoLUMBA, Ab. lona, A.D. 597 (L.).
Baithen, Ab. lona, a.d. 601.
Baithen or Baitan was cousin-german and immediate suc-
cessor to S. Columba in the government of the establishment at
-*T
June 10-13.] Celtic aiid EfigHsJi Kaleiidar. 233
lona. The story is told that the great saint and founder saw in
vision three chairs set in heaven, made respectively for Kieran,
Baithen, and himself, the first of gold, the second of silver, and
the third of glass, because he himself was "brittle and fragile,
in consequence of the battles fought on his account." When
eating, Baithen invoked Ciod between every mouthful, and when
reaping, he held up one hand in prayer whilst he reaped with
the other. He ruled four years, and died in 600.
I o Rhychwyn, C. Carnarvonshire, middle of 6tJi cent.
Ithamar, B. Rochester, a.d. 671 (L.).
Ivo, B. Huntingdon, 'jth cent. (L.).
Margaret, O. Scotland, a.d. 1093 (L.); also Novem-
ber 16.
Rychwyn was one of the twelve sons of Helig the Bald, who
devoted themselves to religion when their father's territories
were submerged (see Bodfan, June 2).
II
12 Ternan, B. Scotland, a.d. 431.
Translation 0/ S. Odulph, P.O. Evesham.
Ternan or Torannan was High Bishop of the Picts, and
had been baptized by S. Palladius. He is said to have gone to
Rome, where the Pope gave him a bell, which however he forgot,
and left behind at his lodgings, probably not valuing it. The
bell followed him with the instinct of a dog. Being without
seed corn, he sent to the Pictish chief and asked to be given
some. The Pict forwarded to him a sack full of sea-sand.
Ternan, nothing abashed, sowed the sand, and gathered from it
a harvest of yellow wheat. This is a rendering into hagiogra-
phical language of a very simple fact, that Ternan, having no
wheat, employed "maram," a wild corn that grows on sandy
districts near the coast, and makes passable cake. It is still
employed in Iceland and the Faroe Isles. Ternan died about 431.
13 Sennan or Senanus, B. Ireland, a.d. 544; see March
8 (L.).
Sennan or Senanus, of Iniscathy, is commemorated in the
Welsh calendars on this day, also on March 1 and 7. In Brittany
*-
^
234 Lives of the Saints. qune 14-15.
on March 6. He is the patron of Plousane. In Cornwnll S.
Sennen, at Land's End, is dedicated to him. There are churches
named in his honour at Llansannan, in Denbighshire, and Bed-
welly, in Monmouthshire. In Irish martyrologies he appears on
March 8, and under this his life is given in the text. He was
intimately acquainted with S. David.
14 DOCMAEL or DoGMAEL, H. Pembrokeshire, beginning
of 6th cent. ; also October 3 1 .
DocMAEL or DoGFAEr,, son of Ithel ab Ceredig, was a founder
of four chapels in Pembrokeshire, and of a chapel, now destroyed,
in Anglesey. He belongs to the beginning of the sixth century.
He was commemorated also, according to the Welsh calendars,
on October 31, He is said to have had a chapel in Liskeard,
Cornwall.
15 NoN, W. Mother of S. David (see March 3).
Trillo, C. Denbighshire and Merionethshire, early 6th
cent.
Veho or VouGA, B. Brittany, 6th cent. (L.).
Elfleda and Ethelhilda, VV. Winchester, circa
A.D. 950.
Eadburga, v. Winchester, a.d. 961.
Trillo, one of the sons of Ithel Hael, who came with S.
Cadfan from Armorica to Wales, and became a member of the
college of Bardsey. He is still remembered in Brittany as
S. Drel, but there it is fabled of him that he came with Joseph
of Arimathaea. The Latin form of his name is Drennasus.
Veho or Vouga was an Irishman by birth, born about 518,
who came to Brittany rather than occupy the see of Armagh, to
which, according to the legend, he was elected, but to which he
probably had a hereditary right, after the custom of the Irish
Church. The remembrance of him seems not to have remained
in his native land. The Irish form of the name is Fiech.
He stepped on to a stone on the coast, and the stone floated
away with him, and conveyed him to Brittany, where it grounded
at Penmarc. The people on shore, seeing this swimming rock,
thought it must be a ship that had lost mast and sail, and came
out to pillage it. To their amazement and disappointment they
*
» <-
^
I
June .6.1 Ccltic aud EngUsIi Kalendav. 235
found nothing on it but one man and any amount of limpets.
No sooner had Veho left the rock than it swam away again and
returned to Ireland ; but a fragment remained, which is now
shown in the churchyard of the chapel of S. Vouga, at Treguenec.
This piece of stone had served Veho as a pillow on his voyage,
and in it remains the impress of his head. Veho lived as a
hermit near where he had come on shore. However, he was
resorted to by so many people that he left, and retired into a
forest at Landebecher, near Lesneven, where he died in or about
585. S. Feock, in Cornwall, is dedicated to him.
The very curious litany of S. Vougay is valuable as containing
a number of names of Celtic saints. It is reprinted in Graveran
and Kerdanet's edition of Albert-le-Grand's " Lives of the Saints
of Brittany," Brest, 1837. The church and parish of S. Vougay
lies half-way between Lesneven and S. Pol de Leon.
Edburga or Eadburg was the daughter of King Edward
the Elder and Elgiva his third wife. When only three years old,
so the tale was told, her father called her to him, and set before
her, on one side a number of jewels and female ornaments, and
on the other a book of the Gospels and a chalice, and offered her
the choice. vShe at once seized on the latter. This is perhaps
not remarkable, as books of the Gospels were in richly-chased
metal covers, studded with jewellery, and doubtless much more
sparkling and attractive than the ornaments. However, the
king, her father, accepted the choice as an indication of her
vocation, and he gave her up to be educated for the religious
life at Winchester. There she soon won the hearts of the sisters.
She rose at night and cleaned the sandals of the nuns whilst
they slept. She died about 960.
On the same day are commemorated her half-sisters, Elfleda
and Elhelhilda, who were nuns with her at Winchester.
16 IsMAEL, B. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, 6th
cent.
CuRiG or Cyricus, B. Wales, 6th cent.
IsMAEL was the son of a chieftain in Brittany, who was
forced by a dynastic revolution to leave his native land. This
chief was Budic. Budic landed in Dyfed or Pembrokeshire,
and married Arianwedd, the sister of S. Teilo, by whom he had
two children, Ismael and Tyfei. Both children were devoted to
religion by their mother, probably because at the time there
seemed to be no prospect for Budic of restoration to his posi-
*-
-*<
*
236 Lives of the Saints. [Junei6.
tion in his own land, and because there was no inheritance for
her sons, as she had married out of her tribe. S. Teilo took
charge of the children. S. Teilo and Ismael attached them-
selves to S. David, and were with him when he came to Glyn
Rosyn, the valley of the Alun, where now stands the Cathedral
of S. David. They arrived at evening, and lighted a fire.
About half a mile down, nearer the coast, is a porphyry
rock, starting up somewhat abruptly, which had been enclosed
with rude walls, and turned into a caer or fortress by Boia, an
Irish Goidel, who held the land around. When he saw the
rising column of smoke he was very wroth, and went to the spot
to demand by what right squatters had planted themselves on
his land without permission. But the grave and saintly appear-
ance of David, and the obvious harmlessness of the three men,
allayed Boia's fears, and he returned to his fortress, where at
once his wife stormed at him for not killing the intruders. This
wretched woman, unable to work her husband into resentment,
sent her serving-girls to bathe in the river near where the saints
were settled. Then Ismael and Teilo, in disgust, begged their
superior to leave the place, saying, "We cannot endure this,
nor look on those naughty women." But David Ijade them be
comforted — the annoyance would not last long ; their patience
and indifference would tire the girls out.
The persistence of Boia's wife at last prevailed, and the Irish
chief would have expelled, and perhaps killed, David and his
companions, had not another chief named Paucant, son of Liski,
come upon him when unawares, penetrated at night by an un-
guarded entrance into the caer, and murdered Boia and his wife
in their sleep. After that he set fire to the wooden buildings
in the camp. The remains of Boia's fortress remain, and bear
his name, Clegr Fwya, and the port into which Liski and his son
ran their keels is still called Forth Lisky.
Tyfei had been murdered whilst a child (see March 27).
Budic returned to Brittany, and had the good fortune to recover
his principality, and to extend his supreme authority over the
whole of Cornouaille. Soon after his return there he became the
father of S. Oudoc. Ismael remained with S. David, and was
consecrated suffragan-bishop of Menevia, we are told ; but this
must be understood in the Celtic sense, as one of the bishops
maintained in the monastery of David. One church in Car-
marthenshire and five in Pembrokeshire are dedicated to him.
CURIG or Cyriacus, termed "the Knight" or "the
Blessed " in Welsh literature, is said to have settled in Wales in
the sixth century, and to have landed at Aberystwyth. Accord-
»!« ^
-*
June i6.] Celtlc aiid EfigHsh Kalendar.
237
ing to one Welsh MS. (lolo MSS. 145) he was the son of Urien,
son of Cynfarch. He is supposed to have been Bishop of Llan-
badarn, and Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of his pastoral staff as
being preserved in his time in S. Harmon's Church, Radnorshire.
When Latin monks invaded Celtic churches, they got rid of the
native dedications, or altered them to suit saints in the Roman
calendar. This has been largely done with dedications to or
foundations of S. Curig. There was a child, Cyriacus, whose
head was dashed against a marble stair, when his mother, Juliita,
was brought before the Roman magistrate at Tarsus, in Cilicia,
and Curig, the Welsh bishop, has been converted into the child
martyr. Thus Newton S. Cyres, near Exeter, and S. Juliot's,
on the Cornish coast, as well as Llangarig, in Wales, are now
supposed to honour the child Cyriacus and his mother, in place
of the Bishop of Llanbadarn. There are six Welsh hymns in
honour of the martyr Curig, wherein he is represented now as
an infant, then as an adult, showing the confusion between the
bishop and the boy of Tarsus.
Egloskerry, near Launceston, was dedicated to him originally,
as the name indicates. In later times, here also the dedication
was altered to S. Cyriacus.
Curig is probably the same saint as is known in Brittany as
Kerec or Guevroc. In the Legendaries of Leon and Foelgoat
he is described as having been of obscure or uncertain birth, and
the Welsh lists of saints likewise say nothing of his ancestry.
He left Wales with S. Tugdual, both having been disciples of S.
Illtyd at Llantwit, and settled at the mouth of the Menou, in
Domnonia, where his foundation afterwards bore the name of
Loc-Kirecq. Thence he migrated to Ploudaniel, in Leon, where
he founded a college called Traun Guevroc, in a gloomy valley.
Here S. Paul of Leon met him, and saw him in the midst of
a blaze of light. S. Paul induced him to leave the place and
settle among the ruins of the old Roman city of Occismor, near
the now decayed town of Lesneven, and the famous pilgrimage
resort of Folgoat.
One Sunday morning he saw a peasant cutting a bunch of
rushes, wherewith to stop a gap in his hedge, through which
the cattle got in and spoiled his corn. The saint cursed him,
and thereupon the rushes remained glued to his arm and breast.
It was only after he had acknowledged his fault that the saint
released him of- the adhesive rushes. The date of his death is
about 547.
In Brittany, Kirecq or Guevroc is venerated on February 17,
but Curig is commemor.ited in the Welsh calendars on June 16.
*-
-+ <
238
Lives of the Saints.
[June 17-21.
17 Alban, M. Vemlaju, a.d. 304, see June 22 (L.).
Myllin, C. Montgomeryshire, uncertain date.
Nectan, B.M. Devon and Cornwall, ^th cent.
Briavel, H. Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
BoTULPH, Ab., and Adulph, B. Lincolnshire, a.d. 655
(L.).
MoLLiNG, B. Ferns, in Wales known as Myllin, a.d.
697 (L.).
Nectan is said to have been a brother of S. Morwenna, and
one of the family of Brychan of Brecknock. He settled on the
headland of Devon that forms one of the horns enclosing the
Bristol Channel, but his name is also associated with a stream
and waterfall near Tintagel, in Cornwall, and a chapel in the
parish of S. Winnow. There is a local tradition that when S.
Morwenna was dying, her brother ministered to her, and raised
her head that she might with her dying eyes look on Wales,
whence she had come. Nectan died a martyr at Hartland, and
was there buried. His name does not occur among the sons
of Brychan in the Welsh lists, and in this, as in other cases,
" son " means no more than a member of the Brecknock
princely tribe — a nephew, a grandson, or one even more re-
motely related.
18
19 BuRlANA, V. Cornwall {see AJay i).
20 Translation of S. Edward, K.M. Shaftesbury, a.d.
982 (L.).
2 1 Cor MAC, Ab. Durrow, Ireland, end of 6th cent,
Maen or Meven, Ab. Brittany, called in Cornwall
Mewan, ']th cent. (L.).
Meven is the Mewan of S. Mewan near S. Austell, in Corn-
wall, and also the S. Mewan of Mevagissy.
In the life of S. Meven, Maen or Conard Maen, he is said to
•z*
~*P
/UNE2I.] Celtic and Ejiglisk Kalendar. 239
have been a son of one Ere, and to have been a native of Gwent,
and akin to Samson of Dol, on his mother's side.
Samson was consecrated by S. Duljricius about 55°- ^^^
resolved on leaving Wales for Armorica, and was in Cornwall
at some time after his consecration, and there he met S. Petroc,
as is related in the life of the latter saint. As he attended the
Council of Paris in 557, it was probably between 550 and 557.
The Life of S. Maen says that he accompanied his uncle to
Brittany.
It was on their way to Brittany that .Samson with his disciples
and retinue halted in Cornwall. They tarried first at Southill,
near Callington, then went on to the mouth of the Fowey, where
they remained till news reached them that they might safely
adventure themselves in Brittany. At this time S. .Samson
founded the church of Golant, and Mewan those of S. Mewan
and Mevagissy.
On reaching Brittany he remained some while at Dol, and
was much employed by Samson. The latter went to Paris to
see whether he could not obtain Judual, the rightful prince of
Domnonia, and set him up against Conmor, the usurper. Whilst
Samson was in Paris, Mewan travelled to and fro, working up
the minds of the dissatisfied against Conmor. On one of these
expeditions he was traversing the vast central forest of Brecilian,
when he came on a clearing about a ^/'i?/" occupied by a refugee
Briton named Caduo. He had lived there in peace with his
family ; but his children had all died, and he felt his loneliness.
He received Mewan as a fellow-countryman with warmth ;
"Come in," said he, "I have plenty of hay and straw on
which to litter you." He fed them well, and Mewan and his
followers made the night musical with psalms. Before they left,
Caduo said to his guest, *' I am solitary, come and live here
with me as long as I am above ground, and then take it all
for yourselves."
After a little meditation Mewan agreed to this. And this
was the first instance of one of the ecclesiastical colonists
founding a monastery in the forest. All previous monastic
settlements had been by the seaside. It was more than this, it
was the first real attack made on the mighty forest which held
the centre of the land. During his life, Caduo placed Mewan
at Trefoss, a farm beyond the river, true to the principle that
the lann and the //(?« should be separated, and not too near each
other, as distinct organisations under distinct heads.
It was to the monastery of .S. Mewan that Judicael fled from
his brother lloeloc or Alan I., and there the prince acquirel
*-
-► i
► <-
240
Lives of the Saints.
[June 22-25.
such a love for monastic life, that after he left it to mount the
throne and take to himself a wife, he sighed for the peace of
the forest retreat, and finally resigned a crown he had not much
capacity to bear, and reverted to the life of a monk. Mewan is
thought to have died about 640. The touching story of his
disciple Austell is told under the name of the latter. The date
given is that considered probable by M. de la Borderie. Lobineau
gives it as 617, but that is perhaps too early. Judicael's retreat
was in 605 to 610, and Mewan was then his abbot. But it is
quite uncertain how long Judicael remained on the throne after
his accession. Probably his incapacity declared itself pretty
speedily, and he retired after a short reign to place himself once
more in the hands of Mewan. I should be disposed to think
this was in 627, and that this would be also about the date of
the death of the saintly abbot.
2 2 Alban, M. Verulam, a.d. 304 (L.).
WiNEFRED, V.M. Flintshire; see November 3 (L.).
23 Etheldreda, V. Abss. Ely^ a.d. 679 ; also October 17.
24 Veep, V. Cornwall {see July i).
Germoc, K.C. Cornwall.
Bartholomew, P.H. Fame, a.d. 1182 (L.).
Germoc or (Jermoe was a member of a tribe in Ireland,
related to the chief, but perhaps on account of a quarrel or out
of restlessness, he and his sister Breaca came to Cornwall and
settled on the south of the Tregonning and Godolphin range,
near Mount's Bay. A local Cornish saying is that Germoc was
a king, and Breaca a midwife. This means that he was of
princely race, and that she was invoked by women in labour.
In the churchyard outside S. Germoc's Church is a granite seat
called S. Germoc's chair.
25 MoLOC or Mo-LUOCH, B. in Scotland, circa a.d. 592.
Solomon, K.M. Cornwall and Brittany, circa a.d. 547.
MOLOC or Mo-LUOCH is not to be confounded with the illus-
trious Molua, of Clonfert. His original name was Lugardh or
Lua, with the honorific prefix mo, and the endearing suffix of
► i-
Jl'nk25.] Celtic and English Kalcndar. 241
I
oc. He is mentioned by S. Bernard in his Life of S. Malachi,
where, in describing the reconstruction of the abbey of Bangor,
in Ireland, he goes back on its past history, and relates how
that Congal had been the spiritual father of many thousands
of monks. "Verily, the place was holy, and fruitful in saints,
plentifully rendering a harvest to God, so that one of the sons
of that sacred congregation, Luan by name, is said himself alone
to have been the founder of a hundred monasteries. . . . Finally
their shoots so filled both Ireland and Scotland, that the words
of David seem to be a prophecy of these very times : " Thou
visitest the earth, and blessest it ; thou makest it very plen-
teous.' " In the Irish martyrologies, Moluach is remembered.
/Engus calls him "the pure and brilliant, the son of Lismore,
in Alba." The Aberdeen Breviary has some wonderful stories
concerning him. He was educated by .S. Brendan, and he went
about founding churches. One day, requiring a square iron bell,
he asked a blacksmith to hanniier him out one, but the man
replied that he had no charcoal. Thereupon S. Moloc brought
rushes, and the fire was kept up with them till the bell was
made, and this bell was long preserved in Lismore, He was at
the time in the north of Ireland, and he wanted to take ship for
Alba, but as he was unable to procure one, he stood on a stone and
drifted on the waves, using the stone as a vessel, till he came to
the mouth of the Firth of Lome, and sailed up it, past Mull, and
landed on the island of Lismore, and thus his bell was lost to
Ireland for ever. Not finding the islanders amenable to his
teaching, he went to Melrose, but the abbot sent him back to
Lismore, and now success attended his ministrations. He went
much about, and founded churches in many places. He was
buried in the church of Rosmarley. His staff is still in exist-
ence, and is in the possession of the Duke of Argyle. He died
in 592 or thereabouts.
.Solomon or Selyf was the son of Geraint ap Erbin (S. Ervan),
and brother of S. Cyngar, Caw and S. lestyn. He was duke oi
princeling in Cornwall, and married S. Gwen, sister of S. Non
and by her was father of .S. Cybi. It may be suspected that both
Launcells (Llan Selyf) and Lansallos were of his foundation ;
though in later days, when the Latin Church obtained the
mastery, Launcells was dedicated to S. Andrew. Lansallos was
thought to be dedicated to a female saint, Ildierna or Salwys.
The latter is a corruption of Selyf. Of Ildierna nothing is
known. Tiern is king, and the name is made up of Selyf-tiern,
that is to say, Selyf the King. In Brittany he is reverenced as a
martyr, and his date is advanced a century. But as he is there
VOL. XVI. Q
*
-*
44 —
242 Lives of the Saints. uunezs.
represented as father of S. Cybi, there can be no doubt as to his
identity with Sil-Tiern, or Solomon, king in Cornwall. The
Bretons represent him as the son of Congar, whereas he was
actually the brother of that saint and martyr. They also make
him the father, instead of uncle, of S. Constantine, as likewise
of S. Eldad, whom they confuse with S. Illtyd ; whereas Eldad
was son of a different Geraint, not the Prince of Devon.
According to the legend, Solomon or Selyf became a king in
Leon, and it is probable enough that in some of the disturbances
and rivalries that distracted the principality he may have left
Cornwall and established himself in Leon. The princes and
saints of Cornwall and of Brittany are so inextricably mixed up
together, as to lead us to suspect that in the sixth century the
Domnonian and Cornish kings held sway in the portions of
Armorica they had colonised, and that the Breton Cornouailles
and Domnonia were portions of this realm, just as the Duchies
of Normandy and Anjou were afterwards appanages of the
English crown, though in inverse manner, as England was con-
quered by the Normans, whereas Armorica was occupied and
annexed by the British.
If this be the explanation, then it is not surprising to find
Selyf in the Continent as well as in Cornwall.
In Armorica we are told the natives by no means relished
the forcible occupation of their land by colonies from Britain,
and were in constant revolt. Unquestionably the inhabitants
of Armorica were pagans, and had not received the Gospel
before the arrival of the fugitives from Britain. The legend
represents King Solomon as imposing Christianity on the natives,
and as their resenting it and rising in revolt against him. A
fight ensued, and he was killed. But all this is very uncertain.
Great confusion has reigned among Breton hagiographers rela-
tive to Solomon. There were three of the name — Solomon I.,
of whom an account has just been given, who died about 550 ;
Solomon II., who died about 632 ; and Solomon III., who was
killed in S57. The first and last are both reckoned as saints and
martyrs. Solomon III. was a great scoundrel, who obtained
his throne by murder. Nevertheless, as he died a violent death,
he is considered to have been a martyr. The Bretons throw back
Solomon I. to a much earlier period, so as to make him grandson
of Cynan Meiriadog, and give him as wife a daughter of Flavins
Patricius, daughter of Avitus, but the only authority is a fabulous
Life in the Breviary of Vannes. In Brittany he is called Salaun,
and the scene of his death Merzer (i.e. Merthyr, in Welshl
Salaun,
June 26-28.] Celtic uuci EjigHsk Kalendav, 243
26 TwROG, disciple of S. Beuno, C. Carmarthenshire and
Merionethshire, 6th cent.
Translation of S. Brynach, C. in Wales.
TwROG, son of Ithel Hael, attended S. Cadfan from Armorica
to Wales ; he was a disciple and amanuensis of S. Beuno.
Twrog's book, called Tiboeth, which he wrote for his master,
and which was kept in Clynog church, is now supposed to
be lost.
27
28 Austell or Austle, H.C. in Brittany and Cornwall,
'jth cent.
Austell was a disciple and friend of S. Mewan or Mevan,
who is commemorated on June 2L There is, unfortunately, no
record as to whence he came or who was his father ; but as
Samson and Mewan left Gwent on account of the Saxon inva-
sion shortly after 550, it is probable that Austell was one of the
company. S. Samson, we are told, took with him a large band
of disciples, and tradition accuses him of carrying off with him
into Brittany all the manuscripts he could collect. " Scarce
am I reconciled to this Samson," says old Fuller, " for carrying
away with him the monuments of British antiquity. Had he
put them out to the Bank, by procuring several copies to be
transcribed, learning thereby had been a gainer, and a saver
had he only secured the originals ; whereas now her loss is
irrecoverable, principal and interest. Authentics and tran-
scripts are all embezzled ; nor is the matter much whether
they had miscarried at home by foes' violence, or abroad by
such friends' negligence." But it must be remembered that
everything that was left would have been destroyed by the
Saxons. On reaching the coast, Samson dismissed his ship, and
procured a waggon to convey his load of holy vessels and choice
manuscripts across the country. This was in Cornwall. From
hence they cros.sed to Brittany.
According to Welsh tradition, Samson returned in his old
age to Wales, and his cross is still shown at Llantwit Major.
On which occasion Maen and his companion and friend, Austell
were in Cornwall, must be left in uncertainty. All we know of
Austell we derive from the life of S. Maen, and that is little.
► 1-
244 Lives of the Saints. [June 29-30.
He was a priest and a solitary, and he was under the direction
of S. Mewan, and loved him as his own soul.
A pretty story is told of the death of the old abbot. As he
lay a-dying, he saw his friend at his bedside, with his face
bathed in tears. The dying man put out his hand and wiped
away the tears from Austell's eyes, and said, " Weep not. I,
your father, go before. In seven days prepare to follow me."
S. Maen or Mewan died on June 21, and on June 28 he was
followed by S. Austell. The brethren resolved on laying him
beside his spiritual guide and friend, and opened the sepulchre
of Maen, when they saw that the body they had laid in it on the
back was moved away to the right side, to make place for the
loved disciple.
It is very probable that S. Austell, in Cornwall, is a founda-
tion of this companion of S. Maen. Two churches, that of S.
Mewan and that of Megavissy, that adjoin S. Austell, have this
Mewan or Maen as their founder. On the tower of the church
is represented Christ between a pilgrim or hermit with a rosary,
on the right, and an archbishop on the left, withcrozier. Leland
says that Austulus, t© whom the church was dedicated, was a
cenobite. Doubtless, the figure on the left hand of Christ is S.
Samson of Dol, who, in the middle ages, was represented as an
archbishop, and it was fabled that he had been Archbishop of
York, and had received the pall from the Pope.
29
30 EURGAIN, V. Flintshire, 6ih cent.
EURGAIN was the daughter of the tyrant Maelgwn Gwynedd,
King of the Britons, who died of the yellow plague in 560. .She
was married to Elidyr Mynfawr. There was another saint of the
same name, daughter of Caradog, a princeling of Glamorgan.
She founded Cor Eurgain, which afterwards became S. Illtyd's
College of Llantwit.
>i« tjf
July i.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
245
JULY
Julius and Aaron, MM. Caerleon, Monmouthshire,
A.D. 304 (L.).
Servan or Serf, B. Orkney and Fife, circa a.d.
460 (L.).
Cewydd, the Welsh Raiit-Snint, C. Radnorshire and
Glamorgan, 6th cent.
Veep or VVennapa, V. Cornivall, early 6th cent.
Leonore, B. Leon, circa a.d. 560 (L.).
Julius and Aaron. Alihough tliere is no early record of
their martyrdom, it is difficult not to acknowledge the tradition
of their having suffered at Caerleon, the Roman Isca Silurum,
as well founded. The names so singularly united, one Latin,
the other Hebrew, seem unlikely of being invented in this
combination. The martyrs were probably soldiers of the second
Augustan legion, which was quartered at Caerleon, although
Gildas says they were citizens. The churches or martyria over
the spots where they suffered were of early foundation. That
of S. Aaron was at the camp of Penrhos, half a mile north of
Caerleon. The site of S. Julius' chapel is near a point of land
about which winds the Usk, about half a mile down the river,
where some remains of the building still exist, built into a
modern residence. The name Julius is locally changed into Julian.
Cewydd, the Welsh S. Swithun, was a son of Caw of Prydyn
(North Britain), who was lord of Cwm Cawlwyd in the north,
but being compelled to leave his territory, settled in Anglesey,
lie is the saint who among the Welsh was credited with deter-
mining the weather for them for forty days, like S. Swithun,
according as it rained or otherwise on his festival. A curious
story is told in the Life of 8. Cadoc relative to his father, Caw: —
"On a certain day Cadoc was digging the ground about his
monastery" — which he was founding in Scotland — "when he
found a collar-bone of some ancient hero of incredible size."
Then he vowed he would not eat nor drink till he had learned to
whom it had belonged. That night an angel appeared to him
and bade him resuscitate the giant whose collar-bone he had
► 4-
^
*
246 Lives of the Sai7its. [July i.
got hold of. This he did next day. He dug up a great skeleton,
and further, he infused into it new life. The resuscitated giant
knelt at the feet of Cadoc and announced that he was Caw of
Prydyn, who had been killed in battle. Cadoc then set him
to dig the ground for his garden. " Therefore, from that day to
the death of the man of God, the digger performed by digging
what had been commanded him."
Veep, Wvmp, Wennapa, are probably the same person ;
Veep being, indeed, a modern corruption of Wymp or Wennapa.
This saint is the Welsh Gwenafwy, daughter of Caw, and sister
of SS. Samson of York, Eigron, and Peirio. Eigron came into
Cornwall, and Gwenafwy must have come with him. No
foundations by her brother can now be recognised, but there
are two of hers, one of which preserves her name in its Latin
form or approaching it, Gwennap, and the other in its popular
contraction as Veep. In the fourteenth century Bishop Grandis-
son reconsecrated the church of S. Veep and dedicated it anew,
this time to SS. Cyriacus and Julitta. Probably the legend of S.
Wennapa had been lost, and it was inconvenient for a church
to be deficient in proper lections for the festival of the founder.
But another object was to get rid as far as might be of the local
saints and bring all to the dull uniformity of the Latin Kalendar.
But the people would not forget their ancient patron, and the
village feast of July i remains as her commemoration. In the
parish was in 1236 a cell of S. Carrocus, that is to say of S.
Caradoc, father of S. Malo ; and a Llan of S. Gwynog, her
nephew, son of Gildas, a disciple of S. Cadoc, adjoins her settle-
ment. Caw, the father of S. Veep, had been a chief in North
Britain at the end of the fifth century, but the invasion of tlie
Picts and their repeated ravages drove him south. He settled in
• Anglesey, where lands were given him by Maelgwn Gwynedd ;
but his children went into South Wales, where King Arthur
granted them lands ; some, however, clearly were obliged to go
elsewhere, into Cornwall and Brittany. Caw's family is reckoned
as the third holy family of Britain. Aneurin the poet was one
of his grandsons, otherwise known as that acrimonious Gildas
who thought it seemly to pour out his ill-temper in abuse of his
native race. Another son, and brother of Veep, was .(4idan,
disciple of S. David, and Bishop of Ferns, in Ireland.
Leonore. In the text a summary has been given of the
fables related of him. It is possible to come to a tolerably
clear understanding relative to him by comparison of the lives
of the saints of his family. Lobineau considered him to be the
son of Hoel the Great and of Alma Pompsea ; but his father is
*
r
July i.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 247
t
also called Eloc, which is merely a form of Hoeloc, oc being
a common Celtic diminutive. His brother was S. Tugdual
or Tudwal. In one of the dynastic revolutions that occurred
so frequently in Armorica as in Wales, his father had to fly to
Britain, and he committed Tugdual and Leonora to the care of
S. Illtyd. Leonore was ordained by S. Dubricius at Caerleon.
Then, about 535 he went to Brittany at the head of a large
colony of monks and lay-folk, and disembarked on the shore
at Crevelin, on a spot of land just west of S. Malo. The land
was dense with forest a little way back from where the blast
from the sea twisted and withered the trees, and Leonore set
his disciples to work to make a clearing. The lay colonists
who had placed themselves under his leadership did not like the
situation, and deserted to found settlements elsewhere. The
monks worked hard at cutting down the timber. They used fire
to clear the wood, but were unable to consume it, because green.
The ground was encumbered with trunks. The legend is to
the effect that these were miraculously transported to the sea by
a flood. Probably the monks managed to roll the logs down
into the water at low tide, and they were carried away when the
tide rose. The legend is picturesque. It represents the whole
forest as floating away like islets of verdure. The ground
cleared, the next thing to be done was to till it, and here we
have introduced the oft-repeated tale of stags harnessed and
drawing the plough.
Whilst engaged in this work, one day the share turned up a
statue of a ram of pure gold, which he put aside, saying, " Gold
is for kings and not for priests."
It was to the settlement of .S. Leonore that Judual fled from
Conmor, who sought to murder him. Conmor learned where
he was, and went to the monastery in quest of him. Leonore
put the prince in a boat, and when Conmor demanded that
he should be surrendered, pointed to the vessel ready to sail.
Conmor, furious at losing his victim, boxed Leonore on the ear,
then mounted his horse to ride away. As he was shortly after
thrown and broke his thigh, he supposed that he was thus
punished for having struck the saint. However, he continued to
annoy him, and Leonore entered into the conspiracy started by
Samson of Dol to obtain the restoration of Judual and the
expulsion of Conmor. Judual was at the court of Childebert.
Leonore now took the gold ram which he had found, and went
with it to Paris, where he was well received, and the king was
delighted with the statue, and in return promised his protection
against Conmor, and gave Leonore rights of sanctuary as far as
^+-
-**
248 Lives of the Saints. (Julv2-s.
the sound of his bell reached ; but he could effect nothing with
Childebert towards the restoration of Judual.
The legend of his life describes the mode of existence in
the monastery: — "At cockcrow the monks celebrated matins
{noctiirnas vigilias) and lauds {?natutinas laiides). As soon as
dawn broke they returned to their duties of hard labour. While
thus engaged they said the canonical hours, that is to say, prime,
second, terce, and sext. A little before nones (3 p.m.) they
left work and went to the church, praising the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost by saying Beitedicite omnia opera, to the end of the
psalm. Then they said the office, and after that took their re-
fection. But before going to table, they tithed their repast
and cast the tenth to the birds and beasts, for there were no
poor in those parts, they had all in common."
Leonore in Brittany is Lunaire. His tomb is shown in the
parish church that occupies the site of his foundation. His
festival was kept in the diocese of Leon on July I, at Dol on
February 16, at S. Malo on July 16, and at Coutance on July 3.
2 OuDOC, B. Llandaff, a.d. 564 (L.).
SwiTHUN, B. Winchester, a.d. 862 (L.).
3 Peblig or PuBLicius, C. Carnarvon, ^th cent.
Germanus, B. Man, e,th cent. (L.).
Peblig (Pubijcius) was either son or grandson of Maxeii
Wledig (Maximus) and Elen, and lived in the fifth century. lie
settled in Carnarvon.
4 Translation of S. Martin, of Tours.
5 MoDWENNA, V. Abss. Bnrton-on-Trent {see fiily 6).
MoNGUNNA, V. Abss. Ireland, circa a.d. 650.
Odo, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 958 (L.).
EuRFYL, V. Montgomeryshire, uncertain date.
Probus and Grace, CC. Cormvall {see April 5).
EuRFYL or Erfyl, who founded the church of Llanerfyl, in
Montgomeryshire, is of uncertain date, and next to nothing is
known of her. The old inscribed tombstone in the churchyard
of Llanerfyl is not hers, as has been generally supposed.
-*
^
JULV 6-7.
Celtic mid English Kaloidar.
249
MoRWENNA, V. Cornwall, ^th cent. (L.).
Palladius, B. Ireland, circa a.d. 430 (L.).
MoNYNNA, V. Ireland and Scotland, circa a.d. 518
(L.).
MODWENNA, V. Abss. Bnrlon-on-Trcnt, ^th cent. (L.),
Sexburga, W. Abss. Ely, a.d. 699 (L.).
Iltut or Illtyd, Ab. Wales, 6th cent.
Medran and Odran, CC. Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Merryn, C. Cornwall {see January 6).
Ethelburga, V. Abss. Farenioutiers, a.d. 695 (L.).
Hedda, B. Winchester, a.d. 705 (L).
Willibald, B. Eichstadt, a.d. 786 (L.).
Translation 0/ S. Thomas a Becket, a.d. 1220.
Iltut or Illtyd was a native of Brittany or Armorica,
where his festival is observed on November 7, and was the great-
nephew of S. Germanus, of Auxerre. The Welsh authorities
call him "the Knight," and it is probable that he was engaged
in a military career for some time. He served in the court of
Saul, King of Morganwg. One day the king was out hunting,
when, feeling hungry, and being near Llancarvan, he ordered
his men to go to S. Cadoc's abbey and take what was required
for their meal. This they did, Illtyd alone refusing compliance.
He " stood afar witli a hawk, which he sometimes loosed and
directed after birds."
Then a miracle occurred : the earth swallowed up the men
and the stolen meal. This so affected Illtyd as to work his
conversion. All the land about Llancarvan was at this time a
great unreclaimed swamp, and the truth of the story probably is,
that in hunting that day several of the king's men were smothered
in a bog, and that Illtyd was for a while in extreme danger
himself, and when almost despairing of escape from the morass,
vowed his life to religion.
He left the king, and, with his wife and attendants, retired to
the banks of the Dawnon, and built himself a cabin, and others
for his servants, of bushes and reeds. The huts they thatched,
" that it might not rain on their beds." Then he dreamt that
the place was unsuitable.
-► ^
-►^
250 Lives of the Saints. (July 7.
Next morning, early, he hade his wife get out of bed and
collect the horses. She at once obeyed, and went out to catch
the steeds without a stitch of clothes upon her, covered only by
her flowing hair. On her return, leading the horses, and that
in a high wind that was keen with frost, Iltut, instead of being
ashamed of having lain comfortably in bed whilst sending
his wife out naked to run after the horses, " greatly regretted
that he had loved such a person ; and he vowed to desert
her," which the monkish biographer considers the height of
virtue.
The story goes on to say that the poor woman, shivering with
cold, having brought the horses, wanted to go back to bed and
get warm, but Iltut threw her garments at her head, and bade
her pack, and kept her out of bed. " She put on her clothes
and sat down, and begged with a trembling heart to be allowed
to get into bed again at his side." But Iltut absolutely refused
to share the blanket with her, and drove her away.
The real truth of the story is, that the first community founded
by Iltut was one in which the married people lived together, as
was usual in Celtic religious communities of the first period, and
probably the transition to the second stage is marked by the
settlement at Llantwit Major. At Llantwit, Iltut made a square
enclosure, enclosed within a mound and palisades, and within
were bee-hive huts occupied by the monks, and seven small
stone churches.
One day the chief of the country was hunting a stag, and the
poor beast, much harassed, fled to the religious settlement,
entered the hut of Iltut, and lay down at his feet. The chief
followed and demanded the stag ; this the saint refused to
give up.
It is a pity that the saint did not exhibit as much humanity to
his wife as he displayed to the stag.
She remained where he had left her for some time ; but at last,
moved by affection, she went to Llantwit, where she found him
clothed in skins, his face soiled, his hands hard with work. He
drove her away, and for having dared to come after him she was
afflicted with blindness. However, she sought him once again,
and then he interceded for her ; she was cured of her blindness,
but forbidden ever to come near him again.
Iltut had much difficulty with the chief of the tribe of the
land, who demanded tribute of the ecclesiastical tribe, and
doubtless also called forth the retainers for war. The super-
intendent of the prince, for making this demand, was cursed by
the saint, and thereupon he melted down into a lump of bee's-
•T
-**
»4-
juLv8-i2.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 251
wax. Nevertheless, the prince insisted on his rights, and at
last Iltut left Llantwit and took refuge in a cave. One day a
messenger of Gildas was passing the cave, carrying a bell as
a present to S. David, when suddenly the bell began to ring
violently of its own accord. Hearing the bell, Iltut looked out
of his cave and asked to be allowed to ring the bell. This was
granted, and he then returned it. But when the bell reached
its destination it was mute, and remained so till surrendered to
Iltut. Then Iltut returned to Llantwit, but it was to fresh
quarrel with the chief of the land. He paid a visit to Brittany,
and in a time of famine was able to send corn from Wales for
the relief of the famishing people. He died in Armorica, at
Dol. None of the Welsh calendars give the 7th July as his
feast ; only Wilson in his second edition of the " Martyrologe "
(1640), and Father Stanton, "An English Menology" (1887).
8 KiLiAN, B.M. Witrzburg, a.d. 689 (L.).
WiTHBURGA, V. Dereham, in Norfolk, a.d. 743.
Grimbald, Ab. Winchester, a.d. 903 (L.).
Edgar, K. English, a.d. 975 (L.).
WiTHBURGA was the youngest daughter of Anna, King of the
East Angles. As a child she was brought up at Holkham,
where subsequently a church was dedicated in her honour, but
when her father fell in battle she took refuge at Dereham. For
some time she was sustained by the milk of a hind. She died
about 743.
9 Everildis, V. England, ph cent. (L.).
10
II Drostan, C. Scotland, circa a.d. 600 (L.)
Cywair or CowAiR, V. Merionethshire, uncertain date.
Cywair or CowAiR is a virgin saint of whom nothing is
known. The little church of Llangower, in Merionethshire, is
dedicated to her.
12
HH _
252 Lives of the Saints. [July 13-15.
13 MiNVER, V. Cornivall [see November 24).
DoGFAN or DoEWAN, M. Pembrokeshire and Denbigh-
shire, ^th cent.
Translation of S. Jutwara, V.M. at Sherborne, circa
A.D. 700.
Mildred, V. Abss. Thanet, 8//z cent. (L.).
DOGFAN, DOGWAN, or DuEWAN, was one of the many sons
of Brychan Brycheiniog. He was slain by the pai^an Saxons at
Meilhyr Dogfan, meaning his inartyrium, in Pembrokeshire,
where a church in his memory was erected. It is not easy to
understand how the Saxons could have got into Pembrokeshire
at this time. It is more probable that he fell a victim to some
of the corsairs who were continually harassing the coast.
The cloudberries growing on the Berwyn mountain are
popularly called Mwyar Doewan, his berries.
Jutwara or Jutwell was the sister of S. Sid well, con-
sequently also of S. Paulus Aurelianus. Pier sister Wulvella
was settled at Laneast, in Cornwall. The adjoining parish is
Lanteglos, dedicated to S. Julitta, and in it is the holy well
called Jutwells. The rededication to Julitta probably tocjk place
when reconsecrated by one of the bishops of Exeter. It is not
possible to say l)y whom Lanteglos was originally founded, and
who was its first patron, but it is within the range of proba-
bility that it was Jutwara or Jutwell, the sister of the two com-
memorated at Laneast. Jutwara was killed by her brother, to
whom she had been falsely accused of incontinence. He cut
off her head. Where it fell a well bubbled up. She rose,
took up her head and carried it to the church. Her body was
translated to Sherborne Abbey.
14
15 Adeodatus or Deusdedit, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 664
(L.).
Donald, C. Scotland, circa 716 (L.).
Edith of Polesworth, Abss. Warwickshire ; see
September 16 (L.).
Translation of S. Swithun, at Winchester, a.d. 970;
see July 2 (L.).
* — A*
I
-*
July 16-22.]
Celtic and English Kalenda^'.
253
16 Helier, H.M. Jersey, 6th cent. (L.).
Tenenan, B. Brittany, 6th cent.
Tenenan, son of Tinidor, an Irish prince, probably Tigher-
nach, is venerated in Brittany, at Lauterneau. Tliere exists 3
suspicion that he is one and the same as the Irish Tighernach,
Bishop of Clogher and Clones, whose day, however, is, in Wales
and Ireland, April 4.
17 Cynllo, K.C. Wales, circa a.d. 460.
Kenelm, Boy M. Winehelambe, in Gloucestershire, a.d.
819 (L.).
Cynllo, son of Mor, was uncle of Pabo post Prydain and of
Jalhaiarn. He is tutelary saint of three churches in Radnor-
shire, and of two in Cardiganshire. He is termed Cynllo the
King, and it is probable that he was a chief, who, towards the
end of his days, embraced the religious life. His date is
about 460. At Llangoedmor, in Cardiganshire, the marks of
his knees and the prints of his hcjrse's hoofs are still shown in
the rock, also his " brewing tubs" in the rocky bed of the river.
18 Thenew, W. Scotland, a.d. 574 (L.).
Nine Daughters of S. Donald, VV. Scotland, 8th
cent, {see Jidy 15).
19
20 Etheldwitha, Q. W. Winchester, a.d. 903.
Ethei.dwitha or Ealsitha, widow of King Alfred, was
daughter of Ethelred and Eadburg of Mercia. She began the
foundation of a convent for women at Winchester along with
King Alfred, and after his death she retired into it, but did not
survive her husband many years, and died in 903.
21
23
254 Lives of the Saints. [Julv 23-28.
23
24 WuLFHAD and Rufinus, MM. at Stone, in Stafford-
shire, circa a.d. 658 (L.).
Declan, B. Ardmore, Ireland, 6th cent. (L.),
25 Cyndeyrn, C. Carmarthenshire, 6th cent.
JuDOC, P.H. Brittany, circa a.d. 668 {see December 13).
MoRDEYRN, C. Nantglyn, in Denbighshire.
Translation of S. Lewina, V.M. Seaford, in Sussex,
and at Berg, in Flanders, a.d. 1058.
Cyndeyrn was the son of Arthog, of the family of Cunedda,
and is not to be confounded with Cyndeyrn or Kentigern, the
founder of the bishopric of Llanelwy or S. Asaph.
Lewina was a virgin martyr of whom nothing is known, save
that she reposed at Seaford, in Sussex, whence her body was
transported to Berg, in Flanders, in 105S. This day is a fair-
day in Seaford. The usual miracles were supposed to attend
the translation.
26
27 Hugh of Lincoln, Boy M., a.d. 1255 (L.).
28 Samson, B. Dot, in Brittany, circa a.d. 565 (L.).
Samson. In the text an inaccuracy occurs (viii. p. 607),
When Samson left Wales, it was not merely the vision that
induced him to depart, but the fact that the yellow plague was
raging there, and also that he was desirous of recovering his
patrimony in Armorica.
In the more genuine Life of the saint, the story of his ordina-
tion is told quite differently. It was an accident. The bishops,
among whom was S. Dubricius, were assembled on the Feast
of the Chair of S. Peter (January 18 or February 22) in the
monastery of S. German to consecrate two bishops, " but," says
the biographer, "according to ancient usage" three bishops
were always ordained together, and to make up the third they
►}. ^
JULV28.] Celtic and English Kalejidar. 255
consecrated Samson. He did not, as stated in the text, cross
at once to Brittany, but to Cornwall, and landed at Padstow,
where, as we learn from the Life of S. Petroc, he was visited
by that saint. He founded a chapel at Padstow on the height
near Place House. Then, we are told, he was visited by and
took counsel with a certain Winiau, a monk endowed with the
gift of prophecy. Probably this saint accompanied him ; he is
the Withenoc who was commemorated at Bodmin on November
7, and was the brother of S. Winwaloe, and was founder of
Lewannick, near Launceston. From Padstow, Samson made
his way, we may conjecture, to Petherwyn, where his cousin
Padarn had a large settlement.
Petherwyn was a really extensive territory, and it was after-
wards annexed to Tavistock Abbey. And probably it is to this
visit that the story belongs of Padarn running to meet Samson
with one shoe and stocking on his foot and the other bare.
Samson went thence to Southill parish, where he founded the
church. It was apparently on his way thither, at Trecor or
Tregeare, that the incident occurred of the interference with the
people who were performing idolatrous rites about a menhir.
S. Samson is said to have cut a cross on the stone. The stone
has disappeared, unless it be that which bears an inscription to
Cumregnus, son of Maucus, and which does carry on it a cross.
This stone is nine feet high, and is now in the rectory grounds.
The chieftain of the district was Gwedian or Gwythian, and we
may suppose that his tre/wfas the great manor of Killiland, to
which in later times S. Samson's was attached.
From Southill, Samson went to the mouth of the Fowey, and
founded Golant, whilst his companions, Mewan and Austell,
made other foundations near. Probably at this time also he
made an excursion to the Scilly Isles, where one has ever since
borne his name.
He tarried in Cornwall till the time seemed ripe for him to
make a descent on Brittany. He arrived there about 548, and
he landed near Dol. On reaching the shore he found there
only a poor little hovel, before which sat a man plunged in
despair, with his eyes on the sea. Within were two women, his
wife and daughter, very ill. The new-comer was able to treat
them, so that they recovered, and the man in gratitude offered
to Samson any l)it of land on his claim that he fancied. Samson
searched the "desert" as it is called — that is to say, the wild,
uninhabited country — and found an old Roman well choked
with earth and overgrown with brambles. He selected the spot,
and set to work to establish there his monastery. When, in
^■■*~
256
Lives of the Saints.
[July 28
550, S. Mewan was sent across country by Samson to Vannes,
with a commission, he found the whole country entirely given
over to forest and moor, with hardly any population. As the
country was so thinly inhabited, the missionary work of Samson
must have consisted mainly in planting in suitable positions the
several colonies that continued to arrive from Britain. On the
left bank of the Couesnon, at no great distance from the mouth,
is a great granite basin, nearly five feet in diameter and three
feet deep, decorated with eight granite crosses ; apparently a
font for baptism by immersion. This font is in a village of the
commune of Pleine-Fougeres, called L'lle Saint-Samson, and it
is supposed to date from the mission of the saint. But Samson
had not come to Brittany merely to found settlements. The
Dumnonian sovereignty had been usurped by one Conmor, and
the rightful prince was a refugee at the Frank court.
Samson resolved to obtain his restoration. Leaving his
monastery in charge of one of his cousins, he went to Paris, and
there endeavoured to persuade King Childebert to take up the
cause of the prince, whose name was Judual. The Frank, how-
ever, would not actively interfere, but he was quite ready to
allow Samson and Judual to make an attempt against Conmor.
" The more these British fight one another, the less trouble they
will occasion me," thought Childebert. So he let Judual go.
Samson at once took him off to the Channel Islands, where they
collected a band of adventurers and disciplined them, whilst his
agents on the mainland did their utmost to rouse the people to
revolt. When ripe for action Samson and Judual crossed to
Armorica, and many people flocked to their standard. Conmor
was defeated in three battles, and killed in 555.
Samson attended the third Council of Paris in 557, and died
about 565.
When in the ninth century Nominoe founded Dol as an arch-
bishopric with jurisdiction over all the dioceses of Brittany, the
story was invented that Samson had been Archbishop, some said
of Menevia, others of York. We find Giraldus Cambrensis in
the twelfth century gravely relating that Samson had been
Archbishop of S. David's. The connection with York rose out
of an error. There was a Samson, son of Caw, who was priest
at York, but he was a very different person from Samson, son of
Amwn. Then to give the Archbishop of Dol a quasi-official
right to bear the pall, it was further fabled that Samson had re-
ceived this ornament and symbol of authority from the Pope.
Accordingly he is usually represented as an archbishop, with
crozier and pall. As much misconception exists as to what the
*
*-
->it
jLLY 29-31.] Celtic and English Kalendar. 257
pall implies, a word may here be added relative to it. The pall
was originally a part of the dress of the Emperors of Rome, and
they specially allowed a few persons to wear it, as, for instance,
eminent philosophers whom they desired to favour. Without
special license, it was treason to wear the imperial dress. The
bishops of Rome received their palls from the emperor as
symbols of his favour. When the seat of government was
removed to Constantinople, and later, when the Western Em-
pire broke up altogether, then the Popes took it on themselves
to grant palls as symbols of good-will. It had no other mean-
ing whatever. It did not symbolise the conference of archi-
episcopal rank. And, indeed, S. Faulinus consecrated Honorius
to be Archbishop of Canterbury in 627, without having received
any pall himself, and Honorius lived as archbishop for seven
years before a pall was sent to him. Paulinus, also, received a
pall for York in 634, but he had fled from his see before it
arrived, and he took it with him to Rochester, and wore it as
suffragan to Canterbury till his death.
The earliest and only really trustworthy Life of S. .Samson has
been tampered with by some later hand, which has introduced
a number of miracles that did not exist in the Life when written.
But the style in which these latter are composed is smooth and
flowing, whereas the original is written in very rugged Latin.
It is consequently easy to eliminate all this fabulcus matter
intruded into an otherwise trustworthy biography.
29 Lupus, B. Troyes, a.d. 479 (L.).
30 Ermengytha, F. Thanei, a.d. 680.
Tatwin, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 734 (L.).
Ermengytha was one of the daughters of Ermenred, King
of Kent, and sister of S. Ermenburga or Domneva, the foundress
of Minster-in-Thanet. Ermengytha retired to her sister's con-
vent, and spent her life there in peace. She does not occur in
any early martyrologies or kalendars.
31 Germanus, B. Auxerre, a.d. 448 (L.).
Neot, H. Cornwall, circa a.d. 877 (L.).
VOL. XVI.
*
^ ■ ^
I
258 Lives of the Saints. [August 1-2.
AUGUST
1 Cennydd or Kenneth, H. Gower, 6th cent. (L.).
Almedha, V.M. Brecknockshire, 6th cent. (L.).
SiDWELL or Sativola, V.M. Exeter, 'jth cent.
Ethelwold, B. Winchester, a.d. 984 (L.).
Almedha or Elined [see Life in text). The churches of
Llanelien, in Brecknockshire, and of Helland, in Cornwall, are
perhaps dedicated to her. There is a parish of Lanhelen, in the
diocese of S. Brieuc, in Brittany, that was probably dedicated to
her originally, though now supposed to have as patroness the
mother of Constantine the Great.
SiDWELL or Sativola is said to have been a virgin saint of
British origin, and to have had three sisters — Jutwara, whose
translation is celebrated at Sherborne on the 13th July, also
Eadwara and Willgith, but these are certainly not Celtic names.
But Willgith we find as Wulvella or Wilvella at Laneast
associated with her sister Sidwell, and I strongly suspect that
Eadwara or Jutwara is the Jutwell of Lanteglos. Sidwell
is said to have been sister of Paulus Aurelianus. If, as is
probable, the church of S. Paul at Exeter, which is within the
confines of the ancient British city, was founded by Paulus
Aurelianus, then it is not surprising to find near it the church of
S. Sidwell. But in Exeter she is said to have suffered martyr-
dom, her head having been cut off by a scythe, and then
thrown into the well, since reputed holy, in the parish. But
it is very doubtful that she was a martyr, and it may be sus-
pected that the symbols of a scythe and well were adopted from
her name and originated the fable of her martyrdom. More
probably she and her sisters moved west and settled beyond the
Tamar. At Laneast, where she and Wulvella are commemorated,
is her holy well, called Jordan, whence water is always drawn
for baptisms. In one of the church windows is a fragment of
stained glass representing Wulvella as a crowned and veiled virgin.
2 Etheldritha, V.R. Croyland, circa a.d. 834 (L.).
Plegmund, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 914.
Plegmund lived for many years as a hermit. He was one
of the preceptors of King Alfred. He was elected Archbishop
>j^ ■ — »J<
-»^
August 3-8.]
Celtic and English Kale7idar
259
of Canterbury, and received consecration at the hands of Pope
Formosus. Several sees were vacant at the time, and Plegmund
consecrated on one day seven bishops in his cathedral church
of Canterbury. He it was who crowned Edward the Elder at
Kingston-on-Thames in 900. He died in 914.
3 Waltheof, Ab. Scotland, a.d. 1160 (L.).
4 Buan, C. Carnarvonshire, 'jth cent.
MOLUA, Ab. Clonfert, Ireland, a.d. 606 (L.).
5 Ceitho, C. Cardiganshire, 6th cent, {see Nov. i).
Oswald, K.M. Northnmbria, a.d. 642 (L.).
6 Acca, B. Hexham, a.d. 740 (L.).
Ffagan, C. Glamorganshire, 2nd cent.
Hychan, C. Denbighshire, ^th or 6th cent.
Illog, B. Montgomeryshire, as Ellidius in the Scilly
Isles, 'jth cent.
Ffagan was, according to the legend, sent by Pope Eleu-
thesius, with Dyfan, Medwy, and Elfan, to Britain (stQ January
l). He and his companions lived and died in Morgan wg, and
were not known beyond its limits.
Hychan was a son or grandson of Brychan of Brecknock,
and is the patron of a church in the vale of Clwyd.
Illog or Ellidius is the patron of the church of Hirnant, in
Montgomeryshire. He is there commemorated on this day, as
also, under the name of Ellidius, in the Scilly Isles, to which he
doubtless retired. After the Latin Church had overwhelmed the
national Celtic churches, the monks, knowing nothing of the
native saints, altered their names to such as were familiar to
them, and so S. Ellidius became S. Hilary. Not far from
Hirnant church is his well, and there is a tumulus close by
called Carnedd Illog. According to the Tavistock Kalendar,
quoted by William of Worcester, Ellid of Scilly, bishop, was
commemorated on the same day as Illog in the Welsh kalendars
^-
-*
^ — >J«
260 Lives of the Saints. [August 9-10.
9 Fedlimid, B. Kilmore, in Ireland, circa a.d. 550 (L.).
Nathy the Priest, C Achonry, in Ireland, circa a.d.
605 (L.).
10 Geraint, K.M. Devon and Cornwall, a.d. 530.
Blane, B. Bute, a.d. 590 (L.).
Betellin, H. Staffordshire and Croyland, circa a.d.
720 {see September 9).
Malchus, B. Lismore, circa a.d. 1130 (L.).
Geraint or Gerontius was a chieftain of Devon, grandson
of Constantine of Cornwall, and son of S. Erbin or Ervan. He
carried on the prolonged agony of struggle against the advancing
Saxons. According to local tradition, the ancestral abode of
Geraint was at Dinas Gerein, i.e. the palace of Geraint, near
Veryan (Trans. Roy. Inst, of Cornwall, vol. ii. p. 314). His
wife Enid, daughter of a chief at Caerleon, is one of the purest
and sweetest characters of mediaeval romance. If there be any
basis of genuine tradition at the bottom of the Mabinoge of
Geraint, then the Prince of Cornwall delivered her father from
great distress, he having been deprived of his lands and position
by an usurping kinsman. Geraint married Enid, and took her
home to Cornwall, where his father Erbin, exhausted by old
age, resigned the conduct of government to him.
Geraint was so much in love with his beautiful wife that he
spent all his time with her and could not bear to be absent from
her for a day. Once he was lying asleep, and her tears fell on
his breast, and she sighed. She was lamenting that he had thus
lost his courage and dignity. But he misunderstood her tears,
and believed that she had ceased to love him, and had given
her heart to another. So he resolved to go to King Arthur, and
he bade Enid run ahead of him and never speak a word on the
way, till they reached Caerleon ; and he further bade her wear
the old and faded dress in which he had seen and loved her.
Of the adventures on the way there is no need to tell, till near
Caerleon, when Geraint was sore wounded, and in his sickness
was nursed tenderly by Enid.
" Her constant motion round him, and the breath
Of her sweet tendance hovering over him,
Fill'd all the genial courses of his blood
With deeper and with even deeper love.
As the south-west that blowing Bala lake
Fills all the sacred Dee."
■ ■ — >i<
q<-
-1^
August lo.] Celtic auci EngHsk Kalendav. 261
And so all his doubt and mistrust passed away, and he loved
Enid better, if that might be, than he had before.
" They called him the great Prince and man of men ;
But Enid, whom her ladies loved to call
Enid the Fair, a grateful people named
Enid the Good ; and in their halls arose
The cry of children, Enids and Geraints
Of times to be. Nor did he doubt her more,
But rested in her fealty, till he crowned
A happy life with a fair death, and fell
Against the heathen of the Northern Sea
In battle, fighting for the blameless king."
Tennyson, who composed the " Idylls of the King " at Caer-
leon, in a room overlooking the tidal Usk, did not describe
Enid as more typical of a holy and sweet woman than does
the old story-teller of the middle ages. Geraint fell in 522,
some years before the death of Arthur, at Llongborth, which is
doubtless Langport, in Somersetshire. He was possessed not
only of an army, but also a fleet in the Severn, and Llongborth
signifies the quay for ships. His death is thus described in a
poem to his memory by Llywarch the Aged : —
" In Llongborth I saw the rage of slaughter.
And biers beyond all number,
And red-stained men from the assault of Geraint.
In Llongborth I saw the edges of blades in contact.
Men in terror, and blood on the pate.
Before Geraint, the great son of his father.
In Llongborth Geraint was slain,
A brave man from the region of Dyvnaint [Devonshire],
And before they were overpowered, they committed slaughter,"
A saying attributed to Geraint is, "Short-lived is the hater
of the saints." His own designation was, "the Friend of the
Saints."
Geraint is the subject of a tale in the Mabinogion, but it is of
no historic value.
His sons were Cyngar, Selyf, Icstyn, Caw, and Cado, of wliom
*-
.J< (^
262 Lives of the Saints. [August 10.
four are numbered among the saints, and possibly Tegau Eurfron
was his daughter, the virtuous wife of Caradog Freichfras.
Much confusion has arisen through there having been three
or four of the same name, princes of Devon.
The first, called by the Latin historians Gerontius, was
appointed by the usurper Constantine, in 406, to the command
of his army in Gaul. Eventually, mortified in his pride,
Gerontius revolted against Constantine, and proclaimed Maxi-
mus emperor ; but, deserted by his troops and defeated, he put
an end to his own life, after having killed his wife and a faithful
servant, 408.
From him, Geraint, son of Erbin, was removed by more than
a century. But, if we may trust the Welsh genealogies, there
was about the same time another Geraint, son of Caranog, and
father of S. Eldad, Bishop of Gloucester.
There was another Geraint again. Prince of Devon, men-
tioned in a letter addressed to him in 705 by Aldhelm, Abbot
of Malmesbury, accordingly nearly two centuries later than the
times of Geraint ap Erbin. This last Geraint, at the beginning
of the eighth century, fought against Ina, King of Wessex, and
was driven back by him into the west, and Ina was able to
erect a fortress at Taunton to guard the frontier. The Saxon
Chronicle records a battle between Ina and Geraint in 710. A
church in Hereford is dedicated to Geraint, the son of Erbin ; so
also is one in the diocese of Nantes. That of Gerrans, in Corn-
wall, was founded by him.
S. Geran, in the deanery of Porhoet and bishopric of Vannes,
has him for patron.
There was anciently a chapel dedicated to this saint in the
parish of Philleigh, in Cornwall, and the inlet or loop of the
river Fal was called Polgerran. A headland in Mevagissey
bears his name, and on Veryan or Carn Beacon is a mound
traditionally held to be his tomb. Excavations made in this
barrow in 1855 revealed the remains of a chieftain enclosed in
a kistvaen or stone chest. Happily, however, it was not the
saintly king who was disturbed, but a prehistoric warrior. The
local tradition is that Geraint was a refugee from Wales, driven
away by the Saxons, and being well received in Cornwall, fixed
on a place called Curgurrell, where he built the castle called
after him, Dingerain. After some years he resigned his crown
to his son, and was buried in the mound above mentioned, along
with a golden boat with silver oars. The treasure seekers in
1855 were sadly disconcerted not to recover these valuable
deposits.
^ ^
^ __ ©
August H-13.] Celtlc cind Eiiglisli Kaleudcir. 263
IT
12 Merewenna, v. Marhamchtirch, Cormvall.
MuREDACH, B. Killala^ Ireland, circa a.d. 580 (L.).
Jambert, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 790.
Merewenna is a reputed sister of Morwenna, and a daughter
or grandchild of Brychan, of Brecknock. She is the patroness
of Marhamchurch, near Bude. The Welsh genealogists do not
know of her, and we may strongly suspect that she is identical
with Morwenna, the foundress of Morwenstow ; but Morwenna is
also not in the lists of Brychan's children. Morwyn, in Welsh,
signifies a virgin, and might have been applied to any of his
maiden daughters who lived religious lives and founded churches.
At Marhamchurch the festival of the foundress is observed on the
nearest Sunday to the 12th August.
Jambert was abbot of S. Augustine's, at Canterbury, when
chosen successor to Bregwin in that see. The lime was that
when Offa, King of Mercia, was striving to assert his supremacy
throughout England. In the anarchy that had succeeded the
death of Ethelbald, in 757, the kingdom of Mercia had shrunk
to narrow bounds, and Kent, Essex, and East Anglia had
thrown off her yoke, while the Welsh were rallying to fresh
inroads over her western border. None of the Mercian losses
were more felt than that of Kent, for through it ran the main
line of communication with the Continent. Kent, moreover,
was the seat of an archbishopric, to which the entire Church in
the Anglo-Saxon realms looked as head. Some years elapsed
before Offa could attempt the recovery of Kent, and the Mercian
king sought to withdraw the midlands from the supremacy of
Canterbury. To effect this, he petitioned Pope Adrian to erect
an archiepiscopal throne at Lichfield. Adrian consented, and
sent the pall to Adulf, the first and only Archbishop of Lichfield
and the kingdom of Mercia. This division took place about
786. But, in the meantime, by the battle of Oxford, in 775, Offa
had recovered control over Kent. Nevertheless, he desired to
have the whole of Mercia in independence of Canterbury.
Jambert naturally resented this, and Offa seems to have disliked
him accordingly. It was not till after the death of Jambert,
in 790, that the division ceased, and the archbishopric of Lich-
field came to an end. Offa died in 794.
13
■*
->^
^
264 Lives of the Sahits. [august 14-16.
14 Fachnan, B. Rosscarbery, Ireland, circa a.d. 590 (L.).
Just, C. Cornwall and Montgomeryshire, 6th cent.
Just or Ust and Dyfnig or Dominicius accompanied S. Cadfan
from Armorica, and the two in conjunction founded the church
of Llanwrin, in Montgomeryshire. The festival of S. Just was
marked in the old breviary of the abbey of S. Melanie, at Rennes,
on 2nd September. There was a chapel near this abbey that was
dedicated to him, and there is a parish under his patronage in
the diocese of Vannes. In Brittany he is held to have been a
bishop. But this Just is thought to have been the second Bishop
of Rennes, and to have been a martyr. He is also called Justus,
and his festival is observed variously on 2nd June and 2nd Septem-
ber. If he ever lived, it must have been in the fourth century,
but nothing is known of him. Anyhow, this cannot be the Just
of Cornwall and Montgomeryshire. But, indeed, it is most pro-
bable that the Cornish saint is not Ust of the Welsh kalendars,
and that both are distinct from the saint of Brittany. Probably
the Cornish saint Just in Roseland is lestin, the Prince of Dom-
nonia, son of S. Geraint, and uncle of S. Cybi ; brother also
of Cado, Duke of Cornwall, and of S. Cyngar.
The dedication festival of S. Just in Roseland, Cornwall, is on
this day. He is not commemorated in the Welsh kalendars.
16 S. Ermel, Armel, or Erme, C. Cornwall and Brittany,
6th cent.
Ermel or Armel, the patron of Plon-ermel, was a Briton,
cousin of Faulus Aurelianus or Pol de Leon, and he doubtless
accompanied him to Brittany. He was trained by a certain
Caron-cinal. A Caron of uncertain date, and reputed to have
been a bishop, lived in Cardiganshire (March 5). Or Caron may
be Guron, the hermit of Bodmin. All we know is that Ermel,
after returning to the world, regretted having done so, and he
revisited his director, who advised him to go to Armorica along
with his kinsman, Paulus Aurelianus.
The party went over the Severn Sea, and Paul was probably
the founder of the church that bears his name in Exeter. Ermel
or Arthmael accompanied him when he went farther west. In
the deanery of Powder he founded a church now called S. Erme.
He does not seem to have crossed to Armorica along with S.
^ ^
*-
*
August 17-19.]
Celtic and English Kalenda7'
265
Paul, but to have gone independently, and at the head of a
separate colony.
Ermel and his companions landed in Lyoness, at a haven
called Aber-Benniguel. At once he organised a. plow or people,
and this bears his name as Plouermel. On account of the dis-
turbances through the usurpation of Conmor, Ermel thought it
advisable to visit Paris, and crave the protection of Childebert.
This was accorded him, and he was granted a bit of land near
Rennes, where he founded a lann, now S, Armel des Boschaux.
He himself lived in a cell. When Conmor had been killed, in
555, and Judual was king, he returned to Plouermel. One day
he was told that a dragon infested a cave near the river Seich.
He at once went to it, bound his stole about it, drew it to the
river, and cast the monster in.
He died about 562.
In Cornwall, the Latin ecclesiastics, not knowing much, if
anything, about him, converted his name into Hermes, and made
that saint patron of S. Erme.
17 James, Deac. at York, circa a.d. 650 (L.).
r
18 Helena, Empss. IV., circa a.d. 328 (L.).
Dag^eus, B. Inniscathin, Ireland, circa a.d. 560.
Ernan, .(4(5>. B. Ireland, a.d. 625 (see Marnoc, October
25)-
Inan, C Irvine, Scotland, ^th cent.
DaG/^us (in Irish, Deghadh) attended S. Mochteus in his last
illness, and ministered to him the viaticum. He lived in Iniskin,
near Dundalk.
19 Cledog or Clydog, K.M. Brecknockshire, and as
Clether in Cornwall, circa a.d. 482 (L.).
Mochteus, B. Louth, in Ireland, a.d. 535 (L.). ; also
September 19.
Credan, Ah. Evesham, circa a.d. 781.
Clether, founder of a church in North Cornwall, near
Launceston, was one of the saintly colony from Brecknockshire,
is said to have been a son of Clydwyn, and grandson of Brychan.
«-
-*
266 Lives of the SaijltS. [August 20.
This means no more than that he belonged to the clan or family.
There was a descent of the Goidels from Brecknock on North
Cornwall, and the land was portioned out, so much amonr; the
secular tribal chiefs, and so much among the ecclesiastical chiefs.
Of these Clether was one. Clether is probably the Clechre of
the Life of S. Brynach. Brynach so moved Clechre by his
exhortations that he left Carmarthen and went into Cornwall,
where he died at an advanced age. At S. Clether is a sacred
well, and chapel over it, with an altar in it. Clether is the
Cledog or Clydog of the Welsh kalendars.
In a Welsh kalendar of the twelfth century, in the British
Museum, November 3 is given as the day of S. Cledog. At S.
Clether, October 23 is observed as the feast, because that is the
day on which the church was reconsecrated in 1239. There
can be little doubt that S. Cleer, near Liskeard, was originally
founded by S. Clether. His chapel and well at S. Clether are
in a singularly romantic situation. The great Laneast common
stands up as a wall to the north ; the south slope into the Inney
valley bristles with horns of rock, and among these clefts, on a
warm, sunny slope, secure from every wind, are the remains
of the cell, and chapel, and well of the royal saint. If, as is
probable, he was grandson of Brychan and son of Clydwyn, he
was there with kinsmen about him. He must be distinguished
from Cledog who is said to have died at Clodock, in Ewyas,
now in Herefordshire ; for this latter was the son of Gwynnar,
and father of Cynfarch, from whom Taliesin was descended
(lolo MSS., p. 459).
20 OswiN, K.M. Northumbria, a.d. 651 (L.).
Edbert, K. York, a.d. 768.
Ronald, M. Orkney, a.d. 1158 (L.).
Edbekt became King of Northumbria on the abdication of
Ceolwulf, who, after eight years of rule, laid down his sword in
disgust and withdrew to a monastery. Edbert and Egbert were
sons of Eata, and Egbert became Bishop of York. It was the
object now of the Northumbrian kings to detach their realm from
Canterbury as much as possible, and to give to York supremacy
over Northumbria. Accordingly, Ceolwulf obtained from Rome
the recognition of the see of York as archiepiscopal, and his
brother Egbert became the first archbishop in 735. In 738 the
archbishop's brother Edbert became king, and the joint character
of their rule was shown in the "stycas" or copper coins issued
»J,— »i«
^ . ^
August 21-22.] CelHc a7id EngHsfi KaUudar. 267
from the mint at York, bearing on the obverse the legend of the
king, and that of the primate on the reverse.
" Never had the kingdom shown greater vigour, within or
without, than under these two sons of Eata. Edbert showed
himself from the outset of his reign an active and successful
warrior. Though attacked at the same time on his southern
border by Ethelbald of Mercia, he carried on in 740 a success-
ful war against the Picts, and ten years later recovered from
the Britons of Strathclyde the district of Kyle, in Ayrshire.
So great was his renown that the Frank King Pippin sent
envoys to Northumbria with costly gifts and offers of friendship.
... In 756 Edbert, allying himself with the Picts, made himself
master of the capital [of Strathclyde], Alcluyd or Dumbarton.
But at the moment when his triumph seemed complete, his
army was utterly destroyed as it withdrew homewards, only a
few days after the city's surrender, and so crushing was this
calamity, that two years after it, not only did Edbert withdraw
to a monastery and leave the throne to his son Osulf, but the
archbishop joined his brother in retirement, till both were
laid side by side in the minster at York."^ (For Egbert see
November 19).
21
2 2 GwYDDELAN, C Montgomeryshire and Carnarvottshire,
uncertain date.
SiGFRiD, Ab. Monkswearmottth, a.d. 689.
Arnulf, Ab. S. Neots, in Huntingdonshire, ()th cent.
SiGFRlD was elected in the room of Easterwin to govern the
united monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow whilst Benedict
Biscop was absent in Rome. He was a man of a delicate con-
stitution, and suffering from lung complaint. When Benedict
returned he also was in failing health, and after three years both
Benedict and Sigfrid were obliged to resign themselves to their
beds in their several cells ; they, however, so desired to be together
that Sigfrid was carried to where Benedict lay, and was placed
in bed with him, and thus the two abbots lay, their heads on
one pillow. Sigfrid died two months after, and Benedict sur-
1 Green, "The Making of England," ed. 1897, vol. ii. p. 182 setf. I
have merely cleared away the afToctation in the writing of Anglo-Saxon
names introduced by Freeman, and followed servilely by Green.
^ .^
*
268 Lives of the Saints. [August 23-26.
vived him only four months. They were laid in one grave,
A.D. 689.
Arnulf was a hermit living in the fens at the border of
Huntingdonshire, in the region of the Gyrwas or Mid-English.
The tradition is that he was of British origin. This is not so
improbable as it would seem, for the fens proved a refuge for
the Britons against their conquerors, and at the beginning of the
eighth century they still spoke there the British tongue, as we
learn from the Life of S. Guthlac. The name of Arnulf is,
however, Scandinavian. His cell was destroyed in an incur-
sion of the Danes. The name of this hermit does not occur in
English kalendars, but is inserted here, as in French kalendars
an Arnulph, bishop, occurs. The place where the saint had his
cell is now called Eynebury or Arnulf s-bury, and is half a mile
from S. Neots.
ZT) EoGAiN, B. Ardstraw, Ireland, circa a.d. 558 (L.).
Tydfyl, M. Wales, circa a.d. 460.
Tydfyl was a daughter of Brychan. The story goes that
she with her father, then an old man, and Rhun, one of her
brothers, were massacred by a party of pagan Picts and Saxons
about 460, at a place afterwards called Merthyr Tydfyl. She
was the wife of Cyngen, son of Cadell Deyrnllwg, and the
mother of Brochwael Ysgythrog.
24 Yarcard, B. Scotland, circa a.d. 450 (L.).
25 Ebba the Elder, V. Abss. Coldingham, a.d. 683 (L.).
26 Pandwyna, V. Eltisley, Cambridgeshire.
Bregwyn, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 762.
Pandwyna, whose life was written by Richard, rector of
Eltisley, from popular tradition, was said to have been the
daughter of a petty prince in Ireland or North Britain, who fled
to the Cambridge fens to escape from a marriage designed for
her by her father. She took refuge with a kinswoman who was
prioress of a nunnery at Eltisley. There she lived a godly life,
and was regarded as a saint. She was buried near a well, in
sublime disregard of sanitary principles, which still bears her
name, but was dug up and translated to the parish church in the
1J4 (j,
^.
-*
August 27-30.] Ccltic aiicL EfigUsk Kale7idar. 269
\
fourteenth century. The nunnery in which Pandwyna or Pan-
diania lived was destroyed by the Danes. Eltisley also possessed
the relics of S. Wendretha, a personage of whom even less is
known than of Pandwyna. Whatever may be the origin of the
name Pandwyna, that of Gwendraeth is distinctly Celtic. Not-
withstanding the general impression that the Britons were ex-
terminated from the east of England and the Midlands, there
are indications that a good many remained. Even the name
given to the supposed Angles who occupied Huntingdonshire
and Cambridgeshire is suspiciously like a Celtic name Gyrwas
(men reduced to slavery).
Bregwyn succeeded Cuthbert as Archbishop of Canterbury,
and ruled the Church but three years ; he died in 765. It
appears to have been considered that investment with the office
of Archbishop of Canterbury entitled the occupant of the see to
be regarded after death as a saint.
27 Decuman or Dagan, H.M. near Dimster, Somerset-
shire, and Pembroke, circa a.d. 706 (L.).
Maelruth, Mk. M. Mearns, a.d. 722. In Irish
kalendars on April 21 (L.).
28 Samson, B. Dol, in Brittany, and Cornwall, circa a.d.
565 (L.); see July 28.
Translation of S. Rumwold, Child C. at Brackhy,
Northamptonshire, circa a.d. 650.
Rumwold was of princely race in Northumbria ; he was
perhaps the son of Alcfrid by S. Kyneburga, daughter of Penda ;
but this is all very doubtful. The legend says that no sooner
was the infant baptized than he at once spake and professed the
Christian faith, and died whilst still in his baptismal innocence.
But this seems to have grown out of what is probably the truth,
that he was baptized as an adult and died shortly after. His
death took place on November 3, at King's Sutton, in Northamp-
tonshire, but his body was translated to Brackley, in the same
county, on the aSih August, and three years after to Buckingham.
The death took place about 650.
29 Sebbi, K.C. East Arigles, a.d. 694 (L.).
30 Fiacre, C. Breuil, 'jth cent. (L.).
*-
-*
2 /O Lives of the Saints. [ ^s'St^'i!"
31 Eanswitha, v. Abss. Folkestone, a.d. 640 (L.).
AiDAN, B. Lindisfarne, Ap. Northunibria, a.d. 651
(L.).
CuTHBURGA and QuENBURGA, VV. Wimbonu, in
Dorset, circa 725 (L.).
SEPTEMBER
I SuLlEN, At. Wales, 6th cent.
SuLiEN or SiLiN is said to have founded churches in Den-
bighshire and Cardiganshire, and to have spent most of his days
in Bardsey. He accompanied S. Cadfan from Brittany. There
S. Sulian is commemorated as the son of a Welsh prince,
Brocmael. His brother is called Maen, and this may be the Mael
who, according to the Welsh, was brother to Sulien. The
Sullen known in Wales was son of Hywel ap Emyr Llydaw.
No Brocmael is known there, but Brochwael Ysgythrog, Prince
of Powys, is perhaps meant The Breton story is that Sulian
entered the religious life at a very early age ; in fact, ran away
from home and placed himself under the Abbot Guimarch, at
Meibot — that is to say, Gwyddfarch, at Meifod, in Montgomery-
shire. Gwyddfarch seems to have been the founder of this school,
which passed afterwards under S. Tyssilio, son of Brochwael.
The father, very angry, sent to have the abbot killed, but his
emissaries did not carry out his orders. Instead, Gwyddfarch
dismissed the boy, who crossed the Menai Straits and settled in
Bardsey, which took his name as Ynys Sulien. There he
remained seven years, till recalled by his old master, who desired
to entrust to him the charge of Meifod. On reaching the place,
Sulien found that the old man was bent on making a pilgrimage
to Rome, and he used his best endeavours to dissuade him from
so doing, on account of his advanced age. On the death of
Gwyddfarch, Sulien was elected in his room. In the meantime,
his father had died, and his brother had succeeded to be head of
the tribe. The wife of this brother fell desperately in love with
the young abbot, and to escape her he lied. He retired to
Builth, in Brecknockshire. But still an object of pursuit, he
fled still farther, crossed into Brittany, and settled near Aleth,
now S. Malo, where he remained till his death, on November 8
lj( ^
•J.-
September 2-6.]
Celtic and English Kaleridar.
271
-*
according to the S. Malo Breviary, but his festival is celebrated
on October l. He was succeeded at Meifod by his brother S.
Tyssilio. The Breviary of Leon marks his festival on July 29,
and his tomb is shown at Plouer, on the Ranee. It is quite
possible to reconcile the Breton story with what particulars we
know about Sulien. Bardsey was certainly called Ynnys Silin
after him, and he founded churches in Denbighshire and Car-
diganshire, but not in Brecknockshire. Sulien in Wales is
commemorated on the same day as Sulian in Brittany. The
date of his death would be about 570. The real discrepancy is
in the name of the father. In some Welsh kalendars Sulien is
also commemorated on September 2 and October i ; also with
S. Mael, on May 13.
3 Macriess, B. Connor, a.d. 510 (L.).
4 MoNESSA, V. Ireland, circa a.d. 456 (L.).
Rhuddlad, V. Anglesey, 'jih cent.
Translation 0/ S. Cuthbert, B., a.d. 995.
Rhuddlad was a daughter of a king of Leinster who came
to Wales and founded a church in Anglesey.
5 Marchell or Marcella, F. Wales, 6tk cent.
Marchell or Marcella was the daughter of Arwystli Gloff.
She founded Ystrad Marchell, near Welshpool, Montgomery-
shire, where the Cistercian abbey of Strata Marcella was after-
wards erected. Capel Marchell, in Llanrwst, Denbighshire, is
now destroyed.
6 Bega, V. Al)ss. Cumberland, end of yth cent.; see also
October 31 (L.).
Idloes, C. Montgomeryshire, 'jlh cent.
Idloes was the son of Gwyddnal)i, and lived in the early
part of the seventh century. In the Welsh proverbial triplets,
called "The Sayings of the Wise," he is thus referred to : —
" Hast thou heard what Idloes,
A man of meekness, amiable in his life, sang?
' The best quality is a good deportment.' "
>i^-
-*
272 Lives of the Saints. [September 7-10.
7 Modoc, B. Ferns, circa a.d. 632 (L.).
DuNAWD, Ab. Flintshire, 6th cent.
Alkmund and Gilbert, BB. Hexham, a.d. 780 and
789 (L.).
DuNAWD Fawr was the son of Pabo Post Prydain, and in
early life a distinguished warrior among the North Britons.
Later in life he embraced the religious life, and in conjunction
with his sons Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, founded the cele-
brated monastery of Bangor Iscoed, on the banks of the Dee, in
Flintshire. Dunawd was its first abbot.
8 Cynfarch, C. Flintshire and Denbighshire, ^th cent.
Cynfarch, the son of Meirchion, was a prince of the Northern
Britons. He married Nefyn, one of the daughters of Brychan,
by whom he had Urien Rheged. He dedicated the latter part
of his life to religion. He is probably the author of the saying,
" Whoso respects thee not, him respect not thou."
9 KiERAN, Ab. of Clonmacnois, a.d. 548 (L.).
WuLFHiLDA, Abss. Barking, end of 10th cent.
Bertellin, H. Staffordshire, circa a.d. 720 (L.).
WuLFHiLDA was of Doble Saxon family. She built and
endowed the abbey of Horton, on her estate in Dorsetshire.
When the abbey of Barking was reconstituted after having been
wrecked by the Danes, Wulfhilda was appointed abbess, but at
the same time governed her abbey at Horton. In the troubles
that followed the death of King Edgar, she was driven away by
Elfthrytha, the widow of the king, but was restored by Ethelred.
She died about 980.
10 FiNiAN or Finbar, B. Maghbile, Ireland, a.d. 576.
Frithestan, B. Winchester, a.d. 933.
Fin IAN, of Maghbile or Moville, was an Irishman of noble
birth. He received his education under Colman, of Dromore, by
^-
*-
September 11-12] CelHc aiid EngHsJi Kaleiidar. 273
whom he was afterwards recommended to the Abbot Caylan.
This holy man sent him to Whithern, S. Ninian's monastery.
Having spent some time there, he is said to have visited Rome,
where he spent seven years, and was ordained priest. It is not
certain when he founded Maghbile, in Down, but it was about
540, and S. Columba studied under him. He is not to be con-
founded with Finian or Frigidian, who became Bishop of Lucca.
Finian, sometimes called also Finbar, was buried at Moville.
He died in 576.
Frithestan was one of the seven consecrated on the same
day by Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was appointed
Bishop of Winchester. He ruled for twenty-three years, and
died in 933. Shortly before his death he consecrated Birstan to
be his successor.
1 1 Deiniol the Carpenter, B. Bangor^ in Wales, 6th
cent.; also December 10.
Deiniol or Daniel the Carpenter was first Bishop of
Bangor, and is said to have been consecrated by S. Dubricius in
516. (See also Life, December 10.) He was a son of Dunawd,
of North Britain, who was driven from his territories and took
refuge in Wales, and placed himself under the protection of
Cyngen, Prince of Powys. Dunawd and his sons Deiniol,
Cynwyl, and Gwarthan embraced the religious life, and founded
the celebrated establishment of Bangor, on the banks of the
Dee, in Flintshire. When Pelagianism spread in Britain a
second time, S. David sent Deiniol over to a certain Paulinus, a
bishop, to come from Gaul to the aid of the distracted British
Church. A synod met at Llanddewi Brefi, in Cardiganshire,
and through the eloquence of Paulinus, supported by S. David,
Dubricius, and Deiniol, the truth prevailed. Bede says that
Dunawd, the father, was at the conference with Augustine in
602. Daniel must therefore be placed as successor to his father
about 608. The date of his death would be 620 or thereabouts,
unless, what seems probable, Bede named another Dunawd, as
the other circumstances of the life of Deiniol give him an earlier
date. The synod at Brefi was before 569, and the slaughter of
the monks of Bangor, at Chester, took place in 613. lie was
buried in Bardsey.
12 AiLBE, B. Emly, in Ireland, a.d. 527 (L.).
VOL. XVI.
^-
-*
Ij( ^
274 Lives of the Saints. [September 13-15.
1 3 Translation of S. Augustine of Canterbury.
14 Tegwyn, C. Merionethshire, early in 6th cent.
TuDY, C. Cornwall.
Tecwyn or Tegwyn was the son of Ithel Hael, and came to
Britain with S. Cadfan from Armorica. He was founder of a
church in Merionethshire. There was another Tegwy, son of
Dingad ab Nudd, but he had no festival.
TuDY is sometimes in the Exeter Episcopal Registers entered
as S. Tudius, and sometimes as S. Tudia. Among Brychan's sup-
posed daughters was a Tydie. There is a S. Tudy venerated in
Brittany on May II. He was a disciple of S. Maudez, known
in Cornwall as S. Mawes, who certainly resided some time in
the peninsula. S. Tudy plays no conspicuous part in the legend
of his master. He was clearly young at the time, and in
Brittany nothing is known of his after life. He is known in
Wales as S. Tegwy or Tegwyn, and his festival in Wales is
September 14, the same day as that of S. Tudy in Cornwall. This
may be taken to establish the identity, and we must dismiss the
notion that Tudy was a female saint. His n?me was made use
of for a gross forgery. The archdiocese of Tours claimed juris-
diction over the whole of Brittany, and the Breton bishops
resisted this claim. To substantiate it, the clergy of Tours pro-
duced a Life of S. Corentin, in which it was said that the church
of Cornouaille, being without bishops, sent Corentin, Winwalloe,
and Tudy to S. Martin to be ordained bishops by him, and that
S. Martin consecrated Corentin to be Bishop of Quimper, and
appointed Winwalloe and Tudy to their monasteries as abbots.
But, unhappily for the composer of the story, S. Martin had
been dead a century before these saints lived.
S. Tudy founded the monastery of Loc-Tudy, and was the
apostle of the south-west of Cornouaille. It is to be regretted
that, except for a few incidents of his life in the legend of S.
Maudez, nothing further is known of him. At some period of
his life he, as also his master, Maudez, were in Cornwall, where
he founded his lann, where is now the church that bears his
name, whilst Maudez lived an eremitical life near the spot
where rose later the castle of S. Mawes.
r 5 Merryn or Meadhran, B. Ireland and Scotland, a.d.
620
* »i<
*-
*
September i6.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
275
16 NiNiAN, B. of the Eastern Pids, circa a.d. 432 (L.).
AuxiLius, B. Ireland, a.d. 454.
Laisren, Ab. lona, a.d. 605.
Edith, Abss. Polesworth, circa a.d. 964 (L.).
Edith, V. Wilton, a.d. 984 (L.).
AuxiLius, In or about 432 S. Patrick, on his return to
Ireland from Rome, summoned to his aid two missioners, named
Auxilius and Iserninus. Probably he picked them up on his way.
They would not have been of much use to him had they not been
fluent speakers of the Celtic language, and we may assume that
they were Celts, either from Armorica, Cornwall, or Wales. All
we know of his career was that he passed through Auxerre and
Evreux, and probably sailed for Britain from the mouth of the
Seine. Probus says that he crossed the country without stop-
ping long on the way ; but other writers assert that he spent
some time in the country, and that he visited Menevia. There
is a chapel near S. David's Head bearing the title of S. Patrick.
Moreover, according to Welsh tradition the apostle of the Irish
had been there before the birth of David. It is quite probable
that he did go by the Via Julia to the old port of Menevia,
whence the Irish coast can be seen in clear weather, and there
took ship for Ireland. This will agree with what we learn, that
he landed in Wicklow, but being repulsed by the natives,
was obliged to take ship again, and finally came ashore in
the Bay of Dublin.
We may presume that Auxilius and Iserninus were with him,
unless summoned later.
About 456 S. Patrick held a synod, which was attended by
Auxilius and Iserninus, and which drew up canons that are still
extant. Auxilius died in 459, according to the Annals of Ulster ;
but the Four Masters give as the date 454 — that is, actually 455
— in which case the synod must have been about 454.
In the Martyrology of Gorman, Auxilius or Usaille is given
on February 7. In the Book of Obits, of Christ Church,
Dublin, his day is October 19. Colgan collected what notices
he could of him as commemorated on March 19, and tells us
that some martyrologies gave as his feast April 16, and again
September 16. In the Martyrology of Tallaght is the entry on
March 19, of Auxilius, "companion of S. Patrick and bishop."
The Annals of the Four Masters give as the day of his death
August 27.
I
-*
iJH ^ *
276 Lives of the Saints. [September 17-25.
1 8 Translation of S. WiNNOC (^scc November 6).
19 Theodore, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 690 (L.).
20
21 Mabyn, C. Cornwall, circa 560.
Mabyx or Mabenna is a person unknown. It is much more
probable that the church of Maben, in Cornwall, was founded
by Mabon, the brother of S. Teilo, and the founder of the church
of Llanfabon, in Wales. In Llandeilo Fawr there are two
manors, one called that of Teilo, and the other the manor of
Mabon. These were probably grants made by the King of
Dynevor to the two brothers. In Cornwall Mabyn is supposed
to be a maiden saint, but a mistake of gender is not uncommon
where the history of the founder has been lost. There was
another S. Mabon, son of Tegonwy ab Teon, to whom Ruabon
church, Denbighshire, is dedicated.
2 2 LoLAN, B. Scotland, ^th cent. (L.).
23 Ordination o/S. Padarn.
Adamnan, Ab. lona, a.d. 704 (L.).
Tegla, V. Wales (see June i).
24 MwROG, C. Anglesey and Denbighshire, uncertain date.
Robert, H, Knaresborough, a.d. 12 18 (L.).
25 Caian, C. Anglesey, ^th cent.
Fin BAR, B. Cork, a.d. 623 (L.).
Ceolfrid, Ab. Wearmouth, a.d. 716 (L.).
Caian was son or grandson of Brychan, of Brecknock. He
founded the church of Tregaian, in Anglesey.
*-
-^^^
»±«-
-f^
September 26-29.] Celtlc aud Efiglisk Kalcudar. 277
26 Elfan, C. Wales, 2nd cent, {see Elvan, January i).
Meugant, C. Anglesey, Denbighshire, Monmouthshire,
and Brecon, 6th cent.
Meugant, or Meigan, or Maughan, was of princely descent,
and a member of the college of S. Illtyd, from whence he re-
moved to that of S. Dubricius at Caerleon, to be with his father,
Gwyndaf the Aged, who was abbot there, and probably to
assist him in his charge. He is believed to be the same as
Maucannus, Bishop of Silchester, in Hampshire, and to have
been driven from his see by the incursions of the Saxons. He
must have retreated into Cornwall, where are two churches of
his foundation, S. Mawgan, in the lovely vale of Lanherne, a
church of singular beauty, and another in Kerrier. At the latter
he is represented, on the keystone of the tower window, as a
bishop with staff and mitre. In old age he retired to that Isle
of Saints, Bardsey, where he died and was buried. There was
another S. Meugant, son of S. Cyndaf.
27
28
29
Machan, B. Scotland.
CoNVAL, C. Scotland, circa a.d. 630.
LlOBA, V. Abss. Bischoffsheim, circa a.d. 779 (L.).
Machan was early sent from Scotland to be trained in
Ireland. On his return to Alba he was ordained priest, dedi-
cating himself to the Lord as some expiation for the crimes
committed by his parents. He went to Rome, where he was
consecrated bishop. In the Aberdeen Breviary is a wonderful
story of how some oxen of his that were stolen by robbers were,
at his prayer, turned into stone. His date is uncertain.
CoNVAL, son of an Irish prince, became a disciple of S.
Kentigem. He mounted on a stone and used it as a ship to
convey him from Ireland to Alba, and he landed in the Clyde.
The stone was long after regarded as possessed with miraculous
powers. He died about 630.
Richard Rolle, H. Hampolc, near Doncaster, a.d.
1349-
Richard Rolle was born at Thornton, near Pickering, and
under the patronage of Thomas Neville, Archdeacon of Durham,
was sent to study at Oxford. At the age of nineteen a desire
*-
-^
278 Lives of the Saints. [October 3°
came on him to live the life of a recluse. On his return home
he patched up, with the assistance of his sister, a habit suitable
for a hermit, and ran away from home. On the eve of the
Assumption he arrived at a little village church, where his
devotion stnick the lady of the manor, the wife of John Dalton,
and one of her sons recognised him, having seen him at O.xford.
Next day at mass, the young hermit, having obtained per-
mission from the priest, mounted the pulpit and preached a
respectable sermon. John Dalton invited the boy home to
dinner, and after the meal had a chat with him, and finding
the youth had quite made up his mind to live as a hermit, he
gave him a cottage on his estate. There he remained for many
years, writing a good deal, and in his old age he moved to
liampole, where he died in 1349.
30 NiDAN, C. Anglesey and Scotland, circa a.d. 620.
Enghenedl, C. Anglesey, ith cent.
HoNORius, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 653 (L.).
NiDAN was the son of Gwrfyw, the son of Pasgen, and was
confessor to the saints at the college of Penmon, in Anglesey.
He lived in the first part of the seventh century.
Enghenedl was the son of Cynan Garwyn, the son of
Brochwel Ysgythrog. A church in Anglesey was dedicated to
him. He lived in the early part of the seventh century.
OCTOBER
1 Melor, M. at Amcsbury ; see January 3 (L.).
2 Kea, Ab. B. Cormvall and Brittany, 6tJi cent, {see
November 5).
Thomas Cantilupe, B. Hereford, a.d. 1282 (L.).
3 Edmund, C. Scotland, circa a.d. iioo.
Edmund, son of Malcolm Ceanmore and S. Margaret. He
conspired with Donald Bane in an attempt to regain the Scottish
crown from Duncan II., who was treacherously slain at Mon-
dynes, on the banks of the Bervie. After a three years' restora-
tion, in which it is hard to say what share Edmund had in the
*-
*-
-*
October 4-7.] Ccltic and EngHsk Kaletidar. 279
government, Edgar Atheling succeeded in enthroning his nephew
Edgar, son of Malcohn, and in mutilating and imprisoning
Donald. Edmund, probably, hardly voluntarily betook himself to
the Cluniac monastery of Montague, in Somersetshire, where he
spent the rest of his days in the exercise of great austerities, and
begged that he might be buried in chains. He died about I loo.
4 Cybi, Ab. Cornwall and Wales; see November 8 (L.).
Cubert Feast is on this day. The church of S. Cubert, Corn-
wall, was undoubtedly dedicated originally to S. Cybi, and
rededicated to S. Cuthbert.
5 Cynhafal, C. Denbighshire^ early in 'jth cent.
MuRDACH, H. Argyleshire, date uncertain. (L.).
Cynhafal was the son of S. Elgud, of the family of Caradog
Freichfras. There is a poem by a fifteenth century Welsh bard
that gives an account of a miracle performed by him upon Benlli
the Giant, after whom the eminence Moel Fenlli, near Llangyn-
hafal, is called. He tortured the giant, filling his body with agony
and wildfire, which drove him to seek relief in the cool waters
of the river Alun, which, however, refused its aid, and became
dry thrice, retreating into the rock, so that the giant was con-
sumed by heat, and left his bones on the bank. Nennius
attributed the destruction of Benlli to the great S. Germanus.
6 CUMINE THE White, Ab. lona, a.d. 669; also Feb-
ruary 24 (L.).
Failbhe, Ab. Scotland, date uncertain (L.).
Ywi, Deac. C. Wilton, end of 'jth cent. (L.).
Maccallen, Ab. Waalsor, a.d. 978 (L.).
Malchus, B. Lismore, a.d. 1125.
7 Cynog or Canog, M. Wales, circa a.d. 492.
DuBTACH, Abp. Armagh, a.d. 513.
OsYTH, V.M. in Essex, end of ^th cent. (L.).
Cynog or Canog was the eldest son of Brychan, of Breck-
nock. Shortly after his birth he was committed to a holy man
named Gastayn, by whom he was baptized. He is believed to
have been murdered by Saxons at Merthyr Cynog, in Brecknock-
shire, in or about 492. This must have been in a piratical
*-
-*
^_.
280 Lives of the Saints. [October a-io.
incursion. The torque or collar that his father gave him at his
baptism was preserved at Brecon amongst its precious relics in
the time of Giraldus Cambrensis. There are several churches in
Wales dedicated to him, mostly in Brecknocksliire. There is a
church in Brittany that may bear his name, S. Cenneur, in the
diocese of S. Malo.
DuBTACH succeeded Cormac in the see of Armagh in 497.
Little or nothing is recorded of him, except that he ruled the
see for sixteen years, and died in 513.
8 Ceinwey, Kainwen, or Keyne, V. Wales and Corn-
wall, circa a.d. 490 (L.).
Triduana, V. Scotland, uncertain date (L.).
9 Cadwaladr, K.C. Anglesey, Denbighshire, and Mon-
mouthshire, A.D. 664 ; also November 24.
Cadwaladr, son of Cadwallon, was the last of the Welsh
princes who assumed the title of chief sovereign of Britain. His
power, however, was very limited, as Oswald the Bernician,
after the defeat and death of Cadwallon, is said to have extended
his sway over the Welsh as well as over the Saxons. After a
few years, Penda, of Mercia, revolted, and Oswald was killed in
battle ; and then, probably, the Welsh for a while recovered
their independence. Cadwaladr would seem to have been of
a quiet disposition, or else the British were too exhausted by
their losses under Cadwallon, his father, to continue the struggle.
A great plague broke out in Britain, and Cadwaladr rather
ignobly ran away to Armorica to escape it. This was in 664 ;
and notwithstanding his flight, he died of the pestilence. There
has been some curious alteration of facts relative to the history
of the reigns of Cadwaladr and Cadwallon, concerning which
see Skene's " Four Ancient Books of Wales," i. 73-75- That
Cadwaladr went on pilgrimage to Rome is a fiction, due to the
confusion between him and Ceadwalla.
1 o Ervan, C. Cornwall {see Erbin, May 2 9).
Tanwg, C. Merionethshire, early 6th cent.
Paulinus, B. York, a.d. 644 (L.).
Tanwg was one of the sons of Ithel Hael, who accompanied
S. Cadfan from Armorica to Wales. He became a member of
the college of Bardsey.
^ . ^
-*
October 11-15.] Celttc aud EngUsJi Kalciidar.
281
1 1
1 2
13
14
15
Cainech or Kenny, Ab. Ireland, circa a.d. 599 (L.).
Ethelburga, V. Abss. Barking, 'jth cent. (L.).
FiECH, B. Sletty, Ireland, end of 6th cent. (L.).
Edwin, K. Northiinibria, a.d. 633 (L.).
Wilfrid, B. York, a.d. 709 (L.).
Fyncana and Findocha, VV. Scotland, Zth cent. (L.).
Coemgen or Comgan, Ab. Scotland, Sth cent. (L.).
Translation 0/ S. Edward the Confessor, a.d. 1163
(L.).
Manaccus, Ab. Cornwall and Anglesey, 6th cent.
Manaccus, bishop and confessor, according to William of
Worcester, was buried at Lanlivery, in Cornwall. This is
Mygnach, the son of Mydno, of Carnarvon, who was for some
time registrar of the college of S. Cybi at Holyhead, and after-
wards abbot. A dialogue in verse between him and Taliesin
is published in the Myvyrian Archaeology, where he is called
Ugnach. As his friend and master came to Cornwall, it is
probable that he followed, and we have at least one church
of his foundation in the peninsula ; though it must be admitted
that though Lanreath is at a great distance from Manaccan, it is
conceivable that the S. Manacca there commemorated may be
the same saint ; but it is also possible that Manaccan is a mis-
understanding of the Cornish mynach, a monk. The other name
for the place is Minster, and it was a monastery.
Levan, C. Cornwall {see June 7).
Tudur, C. Montgomeryshire and Monmouthshire, late
6th cent.
Brothen, C. Merionethshire, 1th cent.
Tudur was one of the sons of Arwystli GloflF, or *' the Lame."
He was brother of Tyfrydog, Diheufyr, Tyrnog, Twrog, and
Marchell. He is said to have been buried at Darowain, in
Montgomeryshire, and belongs to the latter half of the sixth
century.
Brothen was a son of Ilclig ab Cjlanog. He and his brothers
embraced a religious life when their territory was overwhelmed
by the sea.
-^
282 Lives of tJie Saints. [October 16-18.
16 Co F.MAN, B. Killniadh, Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Gall, H.C, Sivitzerland, circa a.d. 645 (L.).
KiARA, V. Killrea, Ireland, a.d. 680 (L.).
1 7 Translation of SS. Ethelred and Ethelbert, MM.
Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, a.d. 670 (L.).
Translation o/S. Etheldreda, V. Abss. Ely, a.d. 679
(L.).
Nothelm, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 740.
Regulus or Rule, B. Scotland, 8th cent. (L.).
'Nothelm was a priest of the church of London when chosen
to succeed Tatwin as Archbishop of Canterbury. He afforded
help to Bede in the compilation of his ecclesiastical history, by
collecting traditions relative to S. Augustine and his companions,
and afterwards, when in Rome, by copying various letters of the
Popes, and other documents relating to England ; thus we really
owe to this prelate a deep and indelible gratitude for the pains
he took, and for his appreciation of the importance of the work
undertaken by Bede. He corresponded with S. Boniface in
Germany. He died in 740. Many of the early archbishops
leave names, and names only, in the history of the church of
Canterbury, but this is not the case with Nothelm.
18 Gwen, W.M. Wales, circa a.d. 492.
Brothen and Gwendoline, CC. Wales, ^th cent.
(L).
Gwen was daughter or granddaughter of Brychan, and wife
of Llyr Merini, by whom she was the mother of Caradog Freich-
fras. She was murdered by the pagan Saxons at Talgarth, in
Brecknockshire, about 492. No day is given her in the Welsh
kalendars.
She is not to be confounded with S. Gwen or Wenn, the wife
of Selyf, Duke of Cornwall, and mother of S. Cybi, who belongs
to the same period, and who founded a church in Cornwall.
Challoner gives on this day S. Gwendoline, as a festival
in Wales ; but S. Gwyddelan is commemorated on August 22.
Possibly he means S. Gwen.
-*
*-
-*
October 19-25.) Celtlc a)id English Kalendar.
283
19 Ethbin, H. Ireland, ^th cent. (L.).
Frideswide, V. Abss. Oxford, circa a.d. 735 (L.).
Eadnoth, B.M. Dorchester, a.d. 10 16.
20
2 1
22
Bradan, B. Isle of Man, 'jth. cent. (L.).
FiNTAN MoELDUBH, Ab. Clenenagli, a.d. 625.
AccA, B. Hexham, a.d. 740 (L.).
TuDWEN, C. Wales, end of ']th cent.
FiNTAN MuNNU, ^^. Taghuion, Ireland, a.d. 635 (L.).
NwYTHON or NOETHAN, C Denbighshire, 6th cent.
GwYNNOG, C. Wales; Welsh kalendar s on 22nd and
2'^rd (see October 26).
NwYTHON or NoETHAN was the son of Gildas y Coed Aur,
and he and his brothers Dolfjan, Cennydd (Kenneth), and
Gwynnog were members of the colleges of Illtyd and Cadoc.
Two chapels founded by Gwynnog and Nwython formerly
existed near the church of Llangwm, in Denbighshire. In the
earlier Welsh kalendars both saints are commemorated on the
same day, but Rees gives Gwynnog on October 26.
Clether, K.M. Cornwall and Wales; see August 19
(L.).
CoLUMBA, V.M. Cornwall [see November 13).
Elfleda, W. Glastonbury, middle of loth cent. (L.).
24 Cadfarch, C. Montgomeryshire, 6th cent. (L.).
Maglorius, B. Dol, in Brittany, a.d. 4S6 (L.).
25 Caidan, C Ireland, 6th cent.
Marnoc, B. Kilmarnock, Scotland, circa a.d. 625 ;
also March i, and Ernan, August 18.
Marnoc or Marnan is identified in the Irish kalendars with
Ernan, who sought to touch the hem of S. Columba's garment
at Clonmacnoise, that is to say, Ma or Mo- Ernan or Ernog, the
23
*-
-*
*
284 Lives of the Saints. [October ae.
ma or mo being a prefix indicative of affection. He was for
some time in vScotland, where he founded many churches. He
died at Tighernach in 625, and was there buried. Nevertheless,
the Aberdeen Breviary informs us his head was preserved at
Kilmarnock, where it was washed every Sunday, and the water
in which it had been washed was distributed, for a gratuity, to
sick persons, to their great advantage. In Ireland he founded
or governed Rathnew, in Wicklow. There he is venerated on
August 18.
26 GwYNNOG or Winnow, C. Wales and Cornwall, 6th
cent. (L.).
Aneurin, C. Wales, 6th cent. (L.).
Eadfrid, C. Leominster, circa a.d. 675.
Eata, B. Hexham, a.d. 685 (L.).
CuTHBERT, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 758.
GwYNNOG, grandson of Caw, founded churches in Breck-
nockshire, and Glamorganshire, and Montgomeryshire. He is
called Gwynno, as well as Gwynnog.
He was son of S. Gildas, and must have settled in Cornwall,
where he is known as Winnoc, and Pinnock, and Winnow. He
was a disciple of S. Cadoc, and when this latter saint came to
Cornwall and settled near the Fowey river, where already was
a plantation of Veep, his aunt on his father's side, there he
established a llan, now called Langunnet. He seems to have
established a large ecclesiastical tribe, as he had churches at S.
Winnow, S. Pinnock, and Boconnock (Bodd-Gwynnoc). When
S. Samson, son of Amwn Ddu, came to Cornwall on his way to
Brittany, after having visited S. Petrock, we learn that he was
visited by Winnoc. This, however, was a different saint, Gwethe-
noc, founder of Lewannick. Llanwnog, in the county of Mont-
gomery, claims Gwynnog for its founder, and in the cliancel
window he is represented in stained glass in episcopal habit,
mitred, and a pastoral staff in his hand ; beneath is an inscrip-
tion, which, when the window was perfect, ran: " Sanctus
Gwinocus, cujus animse propitietur Deus. Amen." It is of
the fourteenth century.
Eadfrid was a Northumbrian priest who visited Mercia, and
effected the conversion of Merewald, the king of the Hwiccas.
He founded the priory of Leominster. Merewald was the
brother of Wulf here, and is himself regarded as a saint. He had
*
*-
October 27-29.] (_ clttC
a7id English Kalendar. 285
\
been appointed by his brother under-king over the region repre-
sented now by Herefordshire, the British Ivingdom of Ewias.
CuTHBERT was the fifth Bishop of Hereford, and thence he
was translated to the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury. He
corresponded with S. Boniface, and at his instance King Ethel-
bald convened the synod of Cloveshoe. He governed the church
at Canterbury for seventeen years, and died in 758.
27 Ia and Breacha, VV. Cornwall^ 6th cent. (L.).
Odvan, Ab. Melrose, a.d. 563 (L.).
Abban, Ab. Magharnoide, Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
CoLMAN, Ab. Ferns, Ireland, a.d. 632 (L.).
28 DoRTHEN, Ab. lona, a.d. 713 (L.).
Alfred the Great, K.C. England, a.d. 901.
Eadsin, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1050.
Alfred the Great, by some strange disregard, has not been
inscribed authoritatively in the kalendars of the Church ; but if
any Englishman merited inclusion it was he, towering above
many nobodies whose claims we cannot now adjudicate upon.
Certainly it is strange that a bloodthirsty ruffian like Ceolfrid,
and mere feeble sanctimoniousness like Edward the Confessor,
should be included, and not the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings.
He is in Wilson's Martyrology, of 1608, and in that of Father
Stanton, of 1S87.
Eadsin was chaplain to the Danish King Harold, and was
consecrated Bishop of Winchester. When the Danish line closed
with the death of Hardicanute, Eadsin had the satisfaction of
crowning Edward the Confessor. On the death of Ethelnoth
he was raised to be Archbishop of Canterbuiy, but failing health
obliged him to resign some years before his death. He died in
1050.
29 CoLMAN MAC DuACH, B. Connaught, beginning of ^tJi
cent. (L.).
Kennera, V. Galway, date unknown (L.).
SiGEBRRT, K.M. East Angles, a.d. 637 (L.).
Elflida, V. Abss. Rumsey, in Hampshire, a.d. T030
(L.).
*-
->h
1^ ^
286 Lives of the Saints. [ O'^J.rr^r/"
Ethelnoth, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1038.
Ethelnoth was dean of the cathedral church of Canter-
bury, and he deserved to be entitled "the Good." Ethelnoth
was advanced to be archbishop on the death of Living. He
translated the relics of S. Alphege, and received the pall
from Benedict VIII. He governed his church for about eighteen
years, and died on 29th October 1038.
30 Talarican, B. Scotland, 6th cent.
FoiLAN, B. Fosses, A.D. 655 (L.).
Arilda, V.M. Gloucester, date unknown.
Issui or IsHAW, M, Wales, date unknoivn.
Talarican was a purely Pictish saint, it is believed, although
the Aberdeen Breviary says he was an Irishman ; but he is un-
known to Irish historians. He is said to have been consecrated
by Pope Gregory, and he was noted to have celebrated the
liturgy daily. He laboured in the north of Scotland, and
founded churches in the dioceses of Aberdeen, Moray, and Ross.
S. Tarkin's Well is in Kilsyth. There is a chuich in Skye dedi-
cated to him, so that apparently he extended his missionary
labours so far. He probably died about 580.
31 DoGFAEL, C. Pembrokeshire, 6th cent, {see June 14).
Bega, V. Cumberland, circa 660 ; also September 6
and November i (L.). .
NOVEMBER
I Rhwydrys, Morhaiarn, Peulan, CC. Anglesey, 6th
and 'jth cents.
Clydwyn or Cledwyn, K. Brecknock, circa a.d. 490.
DiNGAD, C. Wales, t^th cent.
GwYN, Gwynno, Gwynnoro, Celynin, and Ceitho,
CC. South Wales, 6th cent.
Aelhaiarn, C. Carnarvon and Montgomery, end of
6th cent.
^ >j,
-^
November i.]
Celtic and English Kalemiar.
287
GwENFYL and Callwen, VV. in Wales, e^tlt cent.
GwYNLLEN, C. Cardiganshire, 6th cent.
Clydai, V. Pembrokeshire, ^ih cent.
Cad FAN, Ab. Bardsey, ^th and 6th cents.
The Reconciliation of Padarn.
Cynddilig, C. Somersetshire, late 6th cent.
Bega, V. Cumberland, a.d. 660 (L.).
The Dyfrwyr, CC. Wales, 6th cent.
Dona, C. Anglesey, early 'jth cent.
GwRYD, a Friar, in Wales.
There are in all over twenty Welsh saints commemorated on
this, All Saints' Day, in the kalendars.
Rhwydrys was an Irishman, a son of Rhwydrim or Rhodrem,
King of Connaught, who came to Wales at the end of the
seventh century and settled in Anglesey. Morhaiarn was also
a saint in the same island. Peulan, son of Paul Hen, or
Paulinus, of Whitland, also settled in Anglesey in the early
part of the sixth century.
Clydwyn or Cledwyn was the eldest legitimate son of
Brychan, according to some authorities. On the death of his
father, in or about 450, Brecknock was divided between him
and his brother, Rhun Dremrudd. The latter took the eastern
and most fertile portion, and left the barren, mountainous region
to Clydwyn. The latter was a warlike prince, but of him very
little is known. He was probably engaged all his time in fight-
ing against the Irish Picts, who were occupying the seaboard ami
pushing inland up the valleys. Llangledwyn, in Carmarthen-
shire, was founded by him.
DiNGAD was brother of Clydwyn, and in his old age entered
the congregation of S. Cadoc. He is said to have been buried
at Llandingad or Dingstow, in Monmouthshire.
GwYN, Gwynno, Gwynnoro, Celymn, and Ceitho were
the five sons of Cynyr Farfdrwch, of the family of Cunedda.
They are reported to have been all born at a birth. Their
father was prince at Caio, and probably occupied the fortress
on the hill above the old Roman gold-mines of Gogofau. There
was a church, a daughter church to Caio, dedicated to the five
saints, Pumpsant ; Init there is another as well near Cynwyl
Elfed, in Carmarthenshire ; and Ceitho founded one at Llan-
-*
-*
288 Lives of the Saints. [November
geitho, in Cardiganshire, where he was also commemorated on
August 5.
Probably their father made a grant of land to S. Cynwyl
when he came there, and this saint planted his church on a
tongue of land hard by, and gained an archi-priestal authority
over a very large region, the rich broad basin of the Cothi. The
five brothers, who were older than he, probably placed them-
selves entirely under his direction, as their two foundations are
found near his, and also occupying a subsidiary position.
The story goes that in a storm of thunder and lightning they
took refuge under a rock in one of the adits of the old Roman
mine, laid their heads on a stone pillow and fell asleep, and are
there still sleeping, not to wake up till either King Arthur
reappears or a truly spiritual and apostolic prelate occupies
the throne of S. David. They have worn the stone into hollows
with their heads, and turned it three times, till each side is
marked with depressions. This pillow they cast away, to take
another, and it has been set up near a great tumulus at the
entrance to the mines and to Dolaucothi grounds. They lived
in the sixth century. An inquisitive woman named Gwen, led
by the devil, sought to pry on the saints in their long sleep, but
was punished by being arrested in the cave, there ever to re-
main, save when there is storm and rain, when her vaporous
form may be seen sailing about the old gold-mine in the air,
and her sobs and moans are borne far off on the wind.
Aelhaiarn was the son of Hygarfael, and brother of vSS.
Llwchaiarn and Cynhaiarn. He was of a royal family, and his
grandfather, Cyndrwyn, was prince of a part of ancient Powys.
The valorous Cynddylan was his uncle. Aelhaiarn founded a
church in Merionethshire, and another in Montgomeryshire.
GwENFYL was one of the granddaughters of Brychan. Capel
Gwenfyl, founded by her, formerly existed in the parish of
Llanddewi Brefi, in Cardiganshire.
Callwen was of the family of Brychan, and founded a church
in Brecknockshire.
GwVNLLEU was son of Cyngar, of the family of Cunedda,
and is supposed to have founded Nantcwnlle, in Cardiganshire.
Clydai was a daughter of Brychan.
Cadfan, eminent among Welsh saints, was commemorated
on this day in Wales. He was a native of Armorica, and was
the son of Eneas Lydewig, by Gwenteirbron, a daughter of
Emyr Llydaw, who was remarkable for having three breasts.
He came over to Wales about the year 516, along with several
others, in consequence of one of those dynastic revolutions
* ^
*-
-^
NoVEMBFn I.]
Celtic and EnzHsJi Kalendar.
289
that occurred in every generation in Brittany as in Wales, owing
to the distribution of lands and princely rights among all sons
equally. His three-breasted mother was twice married, once to
Eneas, and again to Fragan. By Eneas she had Cadfan, and by
Fragan she had S. Winwaloe. The refugees in Cornwall and
Wales, not having any tribal rights there, devoted themselves
to religion, and were by this means ingrafted into one of the
saintly or ecclesiastical tribes. Cadfan became first abbot of
the monastery of Bardsey, after it had been founded by Einion
Fremin. He has been considered the tutelar saint of warriors.
He founded churches, Llangadfan, in Montgomeryshire, and
Towyn, in Merionethshire. Towyn has been celebrated in a
poem written in the thirteenth century, in which the author
commends the church for its choir, its sanctuary, its music, its
warriors, and its waters of grace ; as likewise for possessing three
altars, one dedicated to S. Mary, the second to S. Peter, and
the third — "happy was the town to possess the privilege of
having it, for it was sent down by a hand from heaven," and
was dedicated to S. Cadfan. He is called Catmon in the Life of
S. Padarn. He is buried in Bardsey. Towyn claims his body,
but this is due to a mistake, a misreading of a stone once stand-
ing there.
It is much to be regretted that no Life of this illustrious
saint exists.
Padarn. The story of S. Padarn demands closer attention
than has been accorded to it in the text ; but the legend has
been subjected to examination by M. de la Borderie {Saint
Paterne, Vannes, 1893).
In the first place, it must be remembered that there were
three of the name of Paternus — one Bishop of Vannes, con-
secrated in 465 ; another Bishop of Avranches, whose life was
written by Forlunatus, and who was born at Poitiers about 480,
and ruled as Bishoi) of Avranches from 552 to 562, and sub-
scrilied the canons of the third Council of Paris in 557. The
third Paternus was son of Pedrwn and (Iwen, and was akin to
S. Samson, was contemporary with King Arthur, and belongs
to the first half of the sixth centuiy. It must be remembered
that the legend we have dates from the eleventh century, and
the difficulty it provokes is that it has confounded Paternus of
Vannes of the second half of the fifth century with Padarn who
lived half a century later.
According to the legend, Padarn's parents came from Armorica
to Wales — in fact, fled from fear, in one of the dynastic revolu-
tions so common there. With them went the brothers of
VOL. XVI. T
y.-y-
><
-*
290 Lives of the Saints. [November i.
Pedrwn ; and they settled in Morganwg, and several married
daughters of Tewdrig, king of the country.
Padarn was trained for the religious life in Ireland, to which
his father had retired and where he had become a monk.
When his education was complete he came into Britain with
the purpose of returning if possible to Armorica. Among his
disciples were three who were his cousins, variously called
Iletinlau, Catman, and Titechon, or Tinlatu, Cathinam, and
Techo, as they stand in the S. Malo Breviary In Cardigan he
founded the great monastery of Llanbadarn, which was for a
while an episcopal see. If we may trust the Latin hexameters
of John ap Sulien, son of one of the pre-Norman bishops of S.
David's, he ruled there for twenty-one years. At the end of
this time he departed, and with his departure the difficulty
about his further movements begins. The legend takes him at
once to Brittany along with Caradog Freichfras, one of Arthur's
great warriors, who promised him the bishopric of Vannes. He
therefore made provision for the good government of his estab-
lishments in Cardigan by confiding them to well-approved men,
and then he departed for Armorica, where he was invested with
the bishopric of Vannes. However, his taking possession of
the see displeased the other bishops of Brittany, especially S.
Samson, the metropolitan, and Samson started to make the
round of the episcopal sees, receive the tribute due to him as
primate, and the allegiance which he demanded.
As he approached Vannes he sent word to Padarn that he
was coming, and he did so to test his humility, and he required
him to come and meet him just as he was.
The messenger of Samson found Padarn in the act of cloth-
ing himself. He had drawn on one stocking and one shoe.
Instantly he ran out to meet his cousin, with one leg bare and
the other clothed. When Samson saw his ready mind he
rejoiced, and for ever exempted the diocese of Vannes from
paying dues to the archdiocese of Dol. Then the seven bishops
of Brittany assembled on a mountain, and Padarn with them,
and they took a solemn vow to remain united in one faith and
one order of government. This agreement of the seven bishops
is commemorated by a festival called the Reconciliation of
Padarn, which is observed on the ist November.
But after a while, finding himself still an object of envy,
Padarn resigned his see and departed to the territory of the
Franks, where he died on the 15th April. The Bretons cele-
brate three festivals in honour of the saint — one on the day of
his death ; one on that of his consecration as bishop, on the
November I.] CelHc aud EngUsJi Kaleudar. 291
20th June; and one on the reconciliation of the bishops of Llydaw
(Armorica), on the 1st Noveml)er.
Now, in this extraordinary story we see an attempt to fuse
into one the Paternus of Vannes of 465 with the Padarn of, say,
525 ; and by his retreat into the land of the Franks is probably
intimated that he was made Bishop of Avranches, 552-562.
The writer of the eleventh century was himself perplexed.
He had most assuredly old material at his disposal relative to
Padarn, and he tried to accommodate what he found with what
he had also heard, that there was a Paternus of Vaimes.
Now, there is an element in the life of S. Padarn that has not
hitherto been regarded, and which goes some way to solve the
difficulty. Padarn, for some reason, probably with an ulterior
intention of settling in Brittany, did leave Wales. But we find
a considerable district on the Cornish side of the Tamar, sur-
rounded on all sides by Cornwall, yet belonging to Devon. This
is the district of Petherwin. It consists of two parishes, both
with churches under the patronage of S. Padain. These are the
parishes of North and South Petherwin. The Life of the saint
says he went to Guenet. Is it not possible that the writer of
the Latin Life found that his hero, harassed by King Arthur
and by Maelgwn, left Wales and betook himself to a Gwyned
in Cornwall, now called Petherwin or Padarn's Gwyned. The
author of the Life was able easily to make this Gwyned one with
the Venedetia, where Paternus had been bishop in 465.
It is not advisable to altogether sweep away Caradog Freich-
fras, as does M. de la Borderie, as having nothing to do
with Padarn. It is possible enough that Caradog may have
induced Padarn to join him in a raid on Brittany ; but if one
were undertaken, it came to nothing. It is more probable that
Caradog had some possessions in West Wales, and induced
Padarn to settle on them. And we know that Samson landed
at Padstow, and founded a church at Southill. On the way he
must have passed by Petherwin, and the story of the abbot-
bishop running out to meet his cousin half shod is too naive to
have been invented by a mediaeval monk. It is proliably true,
and the scene of the incident would be Petherwin, and the
occasion this visit.
In later times, when the Celtic monasteries languished, then
this ecclesiastical //^M of Petherwin was given to the abbey of
Tavistock, and was united to the county of Devon.
The district over which Padarn held rule was elevated and
wind-swept, whence perhaps its name, from Gwyned or Gwyntog.
North I'etherwin is now in Devon, but South Petherwin in
*-
*
292 Lives of the Saints. [November 1.
Cornwall. The district was originally more extensive, if we
may judge by the possessions of the abbey of Tavistock around.
There is really no evidence that the Padarn of Wales ever did
visit Brittany.
The Dyfrwyr. Although these seven saints have no day
specially devoted to them in the Welsh kalendars, it is deemed
advisable to here insert them, as there are churches dedicated to
them in Wales, wherein they must have been commemorated
annually. The .luthority for their legend is the IJbei- Landa-
vensis, ed. W. J. Rees (Llandovery, 1840), text, pp. 120-2 ;
translation, pp. 367-9; or "The Book of Llan Dav," from a
twelfth - century MS., ed. Evans and Rh^s (Oxford, 1893),
pp. 127-9.
There was a man named Cynwayw, of Dungleddy, in Pem-
brokeshire, of noble family, but poor, and his wife was so prolific
that she gave him a son every year in succession. However,
this rapid succession came to an abrupt termination, and seven
years elapsed without Cynwayw having more children, and he
confidently hoped that his anxieties were at an end, when his
wife was delivered of seven at a birth, thus at one stroke making
up leeway. The unhappy father became desperate, and he
resolved to drown them like kittens.
"As by chance S. Teilo was passing on his way, he found
their father at Rytsinetic, on the river Taf, by the instigation of
the devil plunging his sons one by one in the river, on account
of his indigence and poverty. S. Teilo, beholding such cruel
work, received them all half alive, and, with the giving of
thanks, he baptized them in the name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost. Having taken away the seven sons from the un-
fortunate father, the very pious man brought them up, sent them
to study literature, and placed them on his estate of Llandeilo
(now called Llanddowror, in Carmarthenshire), so that the place
received from some persons the name of Llandyfwyr, because,
on account of their religious life, they had no other food than
aquatic fishes, which, according to their number, seven, were
sent by God to them daily, on a certain stone on the river Taf,
called in consequence Llech Meneich, that is, T/ie Monk' s Stone ;
and, again, they were called Dyfrwyr, because they were found
in the water, escaped from the water, and were maintained by
the fishes of the water, Dyfrwyr signifying, in the British
tongue, Alen of the Water.
" At a certain time S. Teilo, who had frequently visited them
along with his disciples, came that he might enjoy their con-
versation, and one of the brothers, according to their custom,
* ■'--^^ ^^^^ 1£
November 2-3.] Celttc aiid EngHsJi Kaleiidar. 293
-^
went to the water for the fishes, and found on the aforesaid
stone seven, according to the number of the brothers, and also
an eighth, of larger size than the seven, all of which he brought
home. And the brothers were thereat amazed, as it is said,
'The Lord is wonderful among His saints,' because they well
knew that on account of their patron and master, S. Teilo,
becoming their guest, the Creator of all things had increased the
number of the fishes.
" And after they had resided there a long time, living reli-
giously, and passed much of their time in the society of S.
Dubricius, he sent them to another place of his in Pebidiog
(now the rural deanery in which is the city of S. David's), called
Mathru, and there they were named ' The Seven Saints of
Mathru.' And after they remained there for another space of
time, they came to Cenarth Mawr, where they continued until
the end of their lives."
The story is introduced into the Book of Llandaff to account
for the see of S. Teilo possessing lands in Pembrokeshire and
Carmarthenshire and in the diocese of S. David's.
The memory of these seven brethren is attached to three
churches — those of Llanddowror and Cenarth, in Carmarthen-
shire, and Mathru, in Pembrokeshire. These are now said to
be dedicated to S. Teilo, S. Llawdog, and the Holy Martyrs
respectively. It is not difficult to perceive that in the legend is
an element of truth. That the seven brethren were born at a
birth is, of course, a mythical embellishment, taken from a tale
very common in Celtic lands.
Cynddilig, the son of Nwython or Noethan, of the family
of Caw, lord of Cwm Cawlwyd, in the north.
Dona, son of Selyf ab Cynan Garwyn, founded a church in
Anglesey.
GwRYD is said to have been a friar, but nothing is known of
him or his date.
2 Erc, B. Slane, Ireland, a.d. 513 (L.).
3 Cristiolus, C. Wales, 'jth cent.
Clydog or Clether, K.M. Connvall and Hereford-
shire, 6th cent, (see August i 9),
GwENAEL, Ab. Landevenec, Brittany, a.u. 570 (L.).
Translation of S. Winifred, V.M. Flintshire, ith
cent. (L.).
-*
294 Lives of the Saints. [November 4-5.
RUMWALD, C. Brockley, circa a.d. 650 {see August 28).
Englat, H. Tarves, in Scotland, loth cent. (L.).
Malachy, Abp. Armagh, a.d. 1148 (L.).
Clydog is given on this day in the Calendar, '• lolo MSS.,"
p. 152.
Cristiolus, brother of S. Sulien (September i) and cousin
of S. Cadfan, was founder of churches in Pembrokeshire and
Anglesey. He belongs to the seventh century.
4 Dyfrig or DuBRicius, his death (see May 29).
BiRSTAN or Bristan, B. Winchester, a.d. 934.
BiRSTAN, or Bristan, or Brinstan, was consecrated by S.
Frithestan in 932 to succeed him as Bishop of Winchester. It
was his daily custom to celebrate a mass for the souls of the
dead, and at night to visit the cemeteries, and there recite
psalms on their behalf. On one occasion, so says the tale, the
dead responded Amen from their graves. He also daily fed a
number of poor persons, whom he himself served at table. One
day as he did not appear, his door was opened by his attendant,
and he was found dead on his floor. No one seems to have at
the time entertained the smallest notion that he was a saint, and
it was not till Ethelwold, fifty years after, dreamed that he saw
him in radiance, and that Birstan complained that his sanctity
had been ignored, that his body was translated, and doubtless
the details of his virtues excogitated to explain why he was to
be esteemed a saint. He died about 934.
5 Kea, B.C. Cornwall and Brittany, early 6th cent.
GwENFAEN, V. Anglesey, early 6th cent.
Cybi, B. Anglesey and Cornwall, 6th cent, {see Novem-
ber 8).
Kenan, B. Wales, Brittany, Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Kea, Kay, or Kenan, was born of noble parents. The
Breton legend calls them Ludum and Tagu, and says they
lived in Britain, and he became a monk in Wales. One night
in dream he heard a voice bid him take a bell and go with it till
he reached a place named Rosynys, where it would sound of
•in
*-
-*h
November 5.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
295
itself, and there he was to settle. He accordingly procured a
bell — it is said from Gildas — and he started on his travels.
There is a church and parish in Devon now called Landkey,
but which must have been Llankea. Probably he rested for a
while there, but it was not to be his continuous abode. When a
passion set in for effacing by all means the memory of the Celtic
saints and reducing all dedications to the dead uniformity of the
Roman Kalendar, Landkey was re-dedicated to S. Paul. Kea
went on his way and crossed the Tamar. At last he was so
fatigued that he cast himself on the grass, unable to proceed
farther, near a beautiful creek, that was called Hirdraeth or the
Long Estuary. He had, in fact, reached the mouth of the Fal,
in Cornwall. As he lay in the grass, he heard a man standing by
the water's edge calling to a fellow on the opposite bank, to know
if he had seen his cows which had strayed. " Yes," shouted the
other, " I saw them yesterday at Rosynys (now Roseland)."
When Kea heard this, his weariness left him, and he went to the
water's edge, which in Welsh, says the Life, is called Krestenn-
Kea, or the Shore of S. Kea. The writer probably mistook the
word, which would be Traeth-Kea. There he struck a rock and
produced a spring. He crossed the estuary and entered the
wood that grew to the water's edge, and there built an oratory,
as his bell at once began to tinkle. Near this the tyrant Tewdric,
known as the slayer of SS. Fingar and Piala, had his lis or court,
which the biographer calls Gudrun.^ He carried off seven oxen
and a cow that belonged to S. Kea. Next day seven stags
presented themselves to the saint, who yoked them and em-
ployed them to plough his land. On another occasion Tewdric
struck Kea in the face, and cut his lip and knocked out some
teeth. The saint without a word went to bathe his wounded
mouth in a spring hard by, that was afterwards held to be
efficacious in cases of toothache. At last Tewdric's persecution
became so intolerable that Kea resolved to leave for Armorica.
He sought to obtain corn for the journey from a merchant, l)ut
was refused, unless the monks could carry away with them a
laden barge at the wharf at Landegu (Landege was the old name
of S. Kea). Kea and his companions at once threw a rope from
their boat to the barge and drew it after them down the Fal
and across the sea to the coast of Brittany. The place where
Kea had established himself on the Fal was undoubtedly old
Kea, where the tower of the church and a shaft of a cross
remain. The new parish church is three miles distant.
^ It is now called Goodern.
*-
-*
-*
296 Lives of the Saints. [November e.
Kea landed near Cleder, in Leon, and there he erected a
monastery. He did not, however, remain lliere long, Ijut re-
turned to Britain, at the time wlien King Arthur was fighting
the Saxons and his rebellious nephew Mordred. After the death
of Arthur, Kea visited Gwenwer, and reproached her for her evil
life, and exhorted her to enter into a monastery, repent, and
dedicate the rest of her life to God. Then he went back to
Cleder, in Brittany, to receive the last sigh of a S. Kerian (not
Kieran of Saigir), who had long been his friend and fellow.
There also he died and was buried. Several churches in Brittany
honour him, a S. Quay near Lannion, S. Quay near S. Brieuc,
but here, under Latin influence, the dedication has been altered
to S. Caius, pope and martyr.^ At Cleder he is patron with
S. Peter, who has apparently replaced S. Clether. Here a
solemn mass is sung in his honour annually on tlie 2nd October.
There is a Breton ballad narrating the life of the saint ; as well
as a Latin Life.
GWENFAEN was the daughter of Pawl Hen, or Paulinus, and
sister of S. Peulan. Nothing further is known of her.
6 Melanius, B. Rcnnes, a.d. 530.
Efflam, C. Brittany, 6th cent.
Edwen, V. Anglesey, 'jth cent.
WiNNOC, Ab. Brittany and Flanders, a.d. 717 (L.).
Leonard of Reresby, C Thryberg, in Yorkshire, i ^th
cent. (L.).
Melanius, Bishop of Rennes, was brought up at the court
of the Breton duke, Hoel L, whose court was at Rennes. He
persuaded several of the youths who were there with him to
renounce the world and become monks. One day, so says the
legend, he encountered a black bull in the forest, which was no
other than the devil. The bull galloped to the monastery and
ran at a monk who was drawing water at the well, and would
have precipitated him down the well, had not Melanius arrived
in time and beat the bull about the head. On the death of S.
Amandus, in 51 1, Melanius was elected to succeed him in the
see of Rennes, and he was present the same year at a council
at Orleans. Rennes was a see distinct from those which were of
British origin, and belonged to the Franco-Gallic Church.
1 Uniler the title of Quemau, he may also be the patron of a chapel at Tredrez, in
S. Brieuc. Man is moch, " my," a term of endearment.
*-
-*
November 6.] Celtlc iind EugHsh Kaleiidar. 297
He was counsellor to Clovis, and was an active man in his
diocese in bringing the people to nominal conformity to Chris-
tianity, for he found them to be real pagans. He did something
among the Veneti to advance the Gospel, for they also were
pagans. He died in 530. The churches of Mullion and S.
Mellion, in Cornwall, are not dedicated to him. The Celtic
Church was out of sympathy with Melanius, who was hand in
glove with the Franks. They are actually foundations of S.
Melyan, prince of Cornwall, the father of S. Melor ; both were
put to death by Rivold about A.D. 524.
Edwen was, it is asserted, a female saint of Saxon descent,
said to have been a daughter or niece of Edwin, King of
Northumbria. In Myvr. Arch., p. 424, we read of Edwin that
he " was brought up in the court of Cadfan in Caersegaint," i.e.
Segontium (Carnarvon). This will account for his sending a
niece to a religious house in Wales. She is said to have founded
Llanedwen, in Anglesey.
WiNNOC. There were several of this name. Gwynnog, son
of Gildas, is the Winnow of Cornwall.
Efflam. The legend of this saint is corrupt. Efilam is from
the Welsh efflmi, splendid, bright. The name in Irish is Felim.
The legend bears on its face the character of its composition.
Owing to the depredations of the Normans, the coast was de-
serted, and not only was the cell of the saint ruinous, but, as the
writer of the legend admits, his memory was almost lost. The
words are significant : " Hie longo tempore pretiosum corpus
requievit absconditum in corpore terrae ; cursu tempore labente,
pene memoria ejus de terris ablata est." At the close of the
tenth century a solitary occupied the ruined habitation, and was
led to suppose that some saint lay under the soil. He com-
municated with the Bishop ofTreguier, and in 994 the body was
sought for and found, and translated to the church of Llanefflam
from the original cell, which was at Donguel or Dungweli, the
position of which is not now known. The legend of the saint
was then pieced together out of vague traditions ; but it has come
to us in a very late form, composed in the twelfth century. The
Benedictine, Dom Denys Brent, one of Loliineau's assistants,
judiciously said of it, " This extravagant legend . . . is a monu-
ment of the spirit of fable which reigned in the fourteenth
century." He considers it later than do we, "when the romances
of King Arthur and others of the same kind were the fashion."
Nevertheless there is certainly a substructure of truth in the
tale. We will give the legend first, and then endeavour to
extricate from it the core of fact.
*-
*
^ tii,
298 Lives of the Saints. [Novembers
There was once upon a time a King of Ireland who had a son
named Efflam. According to a Breton ballad, by the way, the
king was of Demetia, or South Wales. He was engaged in
continuous warfare with another king — the legend says another
Irish king, but that employed by Albert Legrand, from the
Breviary of Plestin, says that he was a kinglet of Great Britain.
At last it was settled to patch up the discord by marrying Efflam,
the son of one, to Enora or Honoria, the daughter of the other.
Exactly the same incident was introduced into the latest form
of the legend of S. Maudez. The marriage took place, much
to Efflam's disgust, who had made up his mind to be a monk.
On retiring for the night the young couple maintained an
animated argument on the topic of celibacy, which the com-
poser of the legend gives with great fulness. At last Honoria,
beaten in argument, but unconvinced, went to sleep. Where-
upon Efflam slipped on his clothes and stole away to the shore,
where a body of like-minded men were awaiting him with a
ship. They entered the vessel and sailed away, and landed in
the estuary of the little stream that forms the boundary between
the departments of C6tes-du-Nord and Finistere. There he
discovered an empty house, and he settled in it and consti-
tuted a monastery. The companions he had brought with him
erected separate cells, and he and they laboured to construct a
church.
In the meantime, Enora found herself deserted. She did not
relish her situation, and she went to the sea-side, found a man
living there in the little port, and persuaded him to sew her up
in a cow-hide and throw her into the sea.
Winds and waves swept her away, and the tide eventually
threw her up over the salmon weir of the stream near Tlou-
jestin or Plestin, and with the retreat of the tide there she
remained. The keeper of the weir, going in the morning to see
what was his catch, found a great leathern object, which he
thought at first was a sea-monster; but recovering from his
alarm, he perceived it was a bag, and he hoped it might con-
tain a treasure. So he conveyed it home to his cabin, where it
burst, and out came the lovely Enora— " salniocinans," says the
legend writer. Now the tiern or chief of the land, to whom the
weir belonged, also desired to know what was the catch, and
what were his prospects for dinner that day. He sent for the
keeper, whose equivocation and embarrassment made him sus-
pect something, and when he threatened the man, he confessed
all. The chief at once mounted his horse and galloped to the
cottage, very curious to see the lovely woman who had come into
*-
-*
*-
November 6.] Celtu aud EugHsJi KaUfidar. 299
his weir sewed up in a cow-hide, and as desirous of securing
her for himself. She, however, perceiving him coming, ran
with all her might, and he spurred his horse in pursuit. She
reached the cell of Efflam just in time, and the chief, putting
out his hand to the doorpost, had it paralysed, and it adhered
to the post ; nor was he able to disengage himself till released
by Efflam.
Here we may pause to remark that the story of the girl
in a cow-hide drifting at sea is like that of the fair Azenor,
mother of S. Budoc, who was committed to the waves in a
barrel. But it is an importation from the legend of Ceridwen
and Taliesin. Ceridwen, we learn, "wrapped Taliesin in a
leathern bag, and cast him into the sea to the mercy of God."
In the story of Taliesin, the bag was carried to the salmon
weir of Elfin and left there, and Elfin opened the bag and
found Taliesin.
The arrival of his wife did not particularly please Efflam, and
in no way induced him to alter his resolution. He made for
Enora a separate cell, and he instructed her in the way of life
through the wall, but never allowed her to see his face, and,
whether she liked it or no, she was constrained to maintain a
cenobitical life.
Now it must be told that Arthur was king in those days,
and that a terrible dragon infested the land. The dragon was
peculiarly crafty, and always walked backward when going to
his cave, so as to delude visitors into thinking he was abroad.
King Arthur fought with the dragon, but unsuccessfully. Then
Efflam, at his request, caused a fountain to break out of the
rock, at which he might quench his thirst. The fountain is still
shown. When Arthur had failed abjectly, then Efflam tried
what he could do, and with the sign of the cross completely
routed the monster, who fell over a cliff, which he stained with
his blood, and which is called the Red Rock to this day.
All this is an episode.
Now, it will be recalled that Efflam had taken possession of
an old cabin. One day the original builder and possessor of
this cabin appeared. His name was Jestyn, and a scene of
mutual compliments ensued, in which each desired the other to
have the cell. At last it was agreed that Efflam should keep
the hut, but that the spot should bear the name of Jestyn, and
it was called Plou-Jestyn or Plestin thenceforth, and will be to
the end of time.
After some days the craving came on Efflam to go elsewhere.
Accordingly he departed for Cornouailles, where he made settle-
■^
«T.
* __ ^
500 Lives of the Saints. [November e.
ments, and left such a memory of his holiness that he was there
ever after honoured.
I give the passage, because it is important : " Post multum
vero temporis, recedens inde ad Cornubiam, volens ibi nianere,
famulasDeo acquisivit, cum quibus basilicam constituit etstadio
hujus vitse ibi decurso, biavio perenni meruit donari. Ibi
memoria ejus quolidie agitur, et solemni letitia festum ejus
celebratur."
Such is the legend composed out of dim traditions, and em-
broidered ad libitum by the author.
Now let us see what is the substratum of fact ; at all events,
what we may allow that he did gather from tradition.
JifHam was the son of a princeling, not in Brittany, but some-
where else. That he should have come as a coloniser from
Ireland is improbable. He came, as one of the many settlers
did in the sixth century, from Britain, and probably from either
Cornwall or South Wales. But there had preceded him another
colonist, Jestyn, whom we can identify as the son of Geraint,
brother of S. Solomon and of Cador, Duke of Cornwall. Jestyn
had taken possession of the land, and had constituted a ploii, or
clan. He gave up a site to Eflilam for his lan^i. Efflam had
not taken his wife with him, but she arrived soon after in a
coracle. The legend writer could not make heads or tails out of
the story of the skin boat in which she voyaged, and so made
her to be sewn up in a cow-hide. Finding no record of any
children born to Efflam, he concluded that both lived a life of
continence. Moreover, it scandalised the writer of the thirteenth
century that an abbot should have his wife with him, and he
accordingly explained the awkward fact as best he could. But
it is precisely this fact of the saintly abbot having his wife with
him that makes us recognise substantial truth in the tradition.
Both this and the separate cells in which the monks lived are
characteristic features of the period. It is true enough that some
of the abbots kept women rigorously at a distance, but the
evidence that Efflam was an abliot is not convincing. A colonist
he was, and a founder of ecclesiastical colonies, of more than one
lann, and not of a plou ; but it by no means followed that as
such he kept apart from his wife. At Plestin, where his statue
is placed near the high altar, he is represented in royal garb,
crowned, and trampling on the dragon ; whereas S. Jestyn, on
the other hand, is figured in sacerdotal garb. Efflam is not only
patron of Plestin, but also of the hospital at Morlaix, and of a
chapel at Toul-Efflam, or the Hole of Efflam, near Lieu-de-
Greve, where he routed the dragon. The day on which he is
^-
■*
*-
-*
November;.] Celtic aiicl EngllsJi KaUjida^: 301
commemorated at Plestin is 6th November. We do not know
whether this be the day of translation of his rehcs or of his
death.
It is perhaps needless to say that no trace of Efflam can be
found in Irish or Welsh kalendars. He was also without cult in
Lower Brittany.
In 1819 the cure of Plestin, when a mission was held there,
hoped to stimulate the enthusiasm of his parishioners by an
" elevation " of the relics of S. Etflam. He therefore opened
the tomb, to which the remains had been translated in 994, but
found underneath it only a slab of granite, with an axe cut on it,
and saw particles of bone, mixed with earth and seaweed, and
a little copper cross, much corroded. Apparently in 994 the
Bishop of Treguier had opened a tumulus, in which was a kist-
vaen, and had come on a prehistoric interment liy incineration.
He had carried away the fragments of half-burnt bone, and tlie
top slab of the monument, marked with a celt, and buried all in
the church at Plestin, and put with them a little cross.
M. A. de la Borderie has puljjished the legend of S. Efflam
(Rennes, 1892), with critical remarks. A Breton ballad relative
to him is given by De la Villemarque, in his Bars Breiz, but
all his productions have to be received with reserve, as he mani-
pulated his texts very much as did some of the editors of Scottish
ballads treat what they obtained orally. There is, however, a
portion of a Breton ballad in a more trustworthy work, M. de
Kerdanet's edition of Albert Le Grand's Vies des Saints (Brest,
1837).
Cyngar or CuNGAR, Ah. Somersetshire, Glamorgan-
shire, and Anglesey, 6th cent.
Illtyd, Ab. Llantwit, 6th cent, (see July 7).
Cyngar or Cungar was a son of Geraint, Prince of Devon,
lie was at first in Somersetshire, where he founded churches at
Badgworth and Congresbury. After that .Somerset was over-
run by the West Saxons, he retreated into Wales and founded
the monastery of Llangenys, in the diocese of Llandaff. His
date is about 540.
In Cornwall a chapel and holy well in the parish of Lanlivet
bear his name. Not only so, but his name has gone through
curious transformation. He is also called Docwin, and as such
appears as founder of S. Kew, which in Bishop .Stafford's and
other registers appears as the church of S. Doguinus. The
•i<-
-^
302 Lives of the Saints. [November 8-9
church was originally called Landoc, This was softened to
Landoue, then the Lan was cut oflf with the d, and it became
S. Oue, for euphony S. Kewe.
There was another S. Cyngar ab Arlhog ab Ceredig, and
another Docwinus is given by Capgrave.
8 Cybi or CuBY, B. Anglesey and Cornwall (L.); aho
May 6.
TvssiLio, Ab. Wales, middle of ith cent. (L.).
Cynfarwy, C. Anglesey., ph cent.
Cynfarwy was the son of Awy ab Lleenawg, Prince of
Cornwall. He founded a church in Anglesey.
9 Paeo Post Prydatn, C. Anglesey, circa a.d. 510.
Pabo Post Prydain — that is to say, the Prop or Pillar of
North Britain — descended from Coel Godebog or "the Incon-
tinent," was a brave soldier. In the Welsh accounts Coel is
termed Earl of Gloucester ; he is also said to have been a king
in North Britain. We know that there were contests with
Saxon or Angle invaders in the valley of the Tweed, before Ida,
" the Flame Bearer," founded the kingdom of Bernicia ; but we
may suspect that Coel and Pabo fought rather against the Picts,
and that first Coel abandoned the struggle, and then his son.
Pabo, losing heart, despairing of holding his own, retreated
to Wales, where he was hospitably received by Cyngen, Prince
of Powys, who, in conjunction with his son Brocwel Ysgythrog,
gave him a piece of land in Anglesey where he might settle as a
saint. He married S. Gwenaseth, daughter of Rhufon Rhufoniog.
The church of Llanbabo, if not that erected by him, has
been reconstructed out of material used by him for his original
church. His inscribed stone was dug up in the reign of Charles
II. ; Init it was not original, it was carved in the reign of
Edward HI. It is visible in the church. His son Dunawd
is also numbered among the saints. There was a tradition in
Llanbabo that Pabo with his son and daughter were buried in the
churchyard opposite certain faces carved on the wall. These
faces are still to be seen immediately above the door, but the exact
position of the grave cannot be determined. The date of Pabo's
death is perhaps 510. Professor Rhys, in his "Arthurian
Legend," is inclined to identify him with the Palamydes of
Sir Thomas Malory.
* ^ — ^^ *
TOMB OF S. PABO AT LLANBABO.
Appendix Vol., p. 302.]
[Nov. 9.
*
November io-ii.]
Celtic and English Kalendar
303
10 EiAETH Frenhin or The King, C Anglesey, 6th cent.
Justus, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 627.
Elaeth the King was son of Meurig, of the tribe of Coal
Godebog, to which Pabo and Danawd belonged. He was a
chief in the North, but was driven South by the Picts, and spent
his declining years in the monastery of S. Seiriol at Penmon, in
Anglesey. He was a bard, and two religious poems by him
are contained in the Black Book of Carmarthen. He belonged
to the middle of the sixth century.
Justus was one of those sent by Gregory the Great at the
request of S. Augustine to assist him in his labours among the
English. He had been a monk of S. Andrew's on the Coelian
Hill. After Justus had been three years in Kent, Augustine
consecrated him to be first Bishop of Rochester, a see that King
Ethelbert had endowed, and the church was dedicated to S.
Andrew, in memory of that place in Rome whence the English
mission had started. When Augustine and Ethelbert were dead,
there ensued a great pagan reaction, and both Justus and
Mellitus, Bisliop of London, fled to the Continent. Before long,
however, the conversion of King Eadbald made way for their
return, and Justus resumed the government of his church, which
he retained till the death of Mellitus, when he was chosen
archbishop. He had the happiness to be alile to send S.
Paulinus in company with Queen Ethelburga into Northumbria,
and so prepare the way for its conversion. He died in 627.
1 1 Cynfran, C. Carnarvonshire, ^th cent.
Edeyrn, C. Anglesey, 6th cent, [see January 6).
Rhediw, C. Carnarvonshire, date unknoivn.
RiCTRYTH, IV. Abss. Northumbria, a.d. 786.
Cynfran was one of the sons of Brychan, and the founder of
the church of Llysfaen, in Carnarvonshire, where it was usual
to invoke "the grace of God and the blessed Cynfran on the
cattle," when offerings were made at S. Cynfran's Well. His
brother Cynbryd is patron of the adjoining parish, Llanddulas.
Rhkdiw was a saint whose date is unknown. He was buried
at I^lanllyfni, in Carnarvonshire, the church of which is dedi-
cated to him. Formerly there were shown there his well, his
seat, the print of his horse's hoof, and the mark of his thumb on
a stone.
qi-
-^.i
^_ ^
304 Lives of iJlC Saints. [November 12-15,
12 CuMMiAN Fada, Ab. KHcomin, Ireland, 6th cent. (L.).
Cadwaladr, K.C. Wales, a.d. 664 (see October 8).
13 CoLUMBA, V.M. Cormvall, date imknoivn (L.).
MocHAR or MocHUMNA, B. Scotland, end of 6th cent.
(L.).
Devinic or Dewednac, B. Scotland, end of 6th cent.
(L.).
Gredifael, C. Anglesey, 6th cent.
Gredifael was the son of Ithel Hael, a prince of Armorica,
whose family came over to Wales in the great migration under
S. Cadfan and S. Padarn, in four companies, whereof one only,
that of S. Padarn, numbered 847 monks — if we may trust his
biographer. He and his brother Fflewyn were appointed to
preside over the monastery of Pawl Hen at Tygwyn ar Daf,
or Whitland, in Carmarthenshire.
14 DuBRicius or Dyfrig, B. Caerleon, Monmouthshire,
circa a.d. 524 (L.).
Modan, B. Scotland, date not known.
Translation of S. Ei^konwald, B. (see April 30).
Laurence O'Toolr, Abp. Dublin, a.d. 1180 (L.).
DUBRICIUS is given on this day in a twelflh-century calendar
of Welsh saints in the British Museum, and by Father Staunton
in his "Menology of England," 1887.
15 Malo or Maclovius, B. Wales and Brittany, a.d.
627 (L.).
Mechell or Machudd, C. Anglesey, Tth cent.
Cynp'ab, C. Carmarthenshire, ^th cent.
Malo. A summaiy of the Life by Bili is given by Leland,
Collect, ii. 430. The Life has been published in the Bulletin
of the Societe Archreologique d'llle-et-Vilaine, xvi. So also
the Vita II'*. At Godmanchester, in Huntingdonshire, it was
*-
*
^-
-^
November 16-18.] CcUic and EiwUsJi Kale7idar.
<3
305
I
claimed that S. Malo had been l)ishop there, and son of the
local Count." — Leland, Collect, iv. 14.
Mechell or Machudd was the son of Echwydd, and the
founder of the church of Llanfechell, in Anglesey, where there
was at one time a college of a hundred saints.
Cynfab founded Capel Cynfab, a chapel once existing in the
parish of Llanfairarybryn, in Carmarthenshire.
16 Afan, C. Brecknockshire and Cardiganshire, early 6th
cent.
Alfric, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1006.
Margaret, Q.W. Scotland, a.d. 1093; see June 10
(L.).
Edmund Rich, Abp. Canterbury, a.d. 1242 (L.),
Afan, commonly called Afan Buallt (of Builth), was of the
family of Cunedda. He was buried at Llanafan, in Brecknock-
shire, where his tomb still remains with an inscription. He is
thought to have been third bishop of Llanbadarn, a diocese
afterwards absorbed into that of S. David's. His name is in-
serted on this day in the " Greal " and the "Cambrian Register
Kalendars," and by Rees. But the kalendar in the " lolo
MSS." gives November 17. His inscribed tombstone entitles
him bishop, but it is of late date.
Alfric, Abbot of Abingdon, was created Bishop of Wilton,
and on the death of Sithric he became Archbishop of Canter-
bury. He died in 1006.
17 Hilda, V. Abss. Whitby, a.d. 679 (L.).
Fergus, B. Glamis, Scotland, 8th cent.; also on Novem-
ber 18.
Hugh, B. Lincoln, a.d. 1200 (L.).
18 Wynnen, B. Scotland, a.d. 579, same as S. Finian of
Moville, September 10.
Kevrrn, C. Cornwall, 6th cent.
Mawes or Maudez, Ab. Cormvall and Brittany, 6th cent.
Kevern is said to have been a saint in Cornwall of the same
date as S. Piran or Kieran, and to have been his friend. As a
VOL. XVI. U
*-
^
^ — »5l
306' Lives of the Saints. [Novembrrib.
matter of fact, Kevern is Kieran himself. Of this there can be
no doubt, for in the Registers of Bishop Stafford the dedication
to Kieran is given for this parish.
A local tradition is perhaps worth telling. S. Just, a saintly
friend, went to visit S. Kevern, when he fell to coveting a
piece of plate, perhaps a chalice, belonging to his host. Just
considered how he might secure it. Bidding Kevern go fetch
him water from his well, he took advantage of his absence to
make off with the article in question. But S. Kevern, on finding,
when he returned with the water, that his friend had decamped,
suspected mischief, and soon saw that Just was the thief. He
pursued him, and picking up, as he went, three stones of a
peculiar sort found on Coruza Downs, he overtook him at a
spot where Germo Lane joins the Helston Road. There he set
to work to pelt him with the stones, and so forced him to
abandon his ill-gotten goods. The place was ever after called
Tre-men-Keverne, the Three Stones of Kevern. Of late years
these stones have been broken up to mend the roads with them.
Kevern belongs to the sixth century.
Mawes or Maudez. The two Lives of this saint, as well as
the hymns for his festival, and the lessons from the several
breviaries, have been printed and subjected to criticism by M. de
la Borderie(" Saint Maudez," Rennes, 1891). The first Life was
written towards the end of the eleventh century. The second
Life is a very unsatisfactory production ; it is hardly earlier than
the thirteenth century. The first was employed in its composi-
tion, and the gaps left by the writer of the first were filled in
with fanciful tales by the composer of the second.
S. Maudez was the son of a kinglet in Ireland called Ercleus,
and his mother's name was Oentusa. As the tenth son of the
royal couple he was dedicated to God. After his education was
completed he left Ireland. This is all that the author of the
first Life knew. The composer of tlie second was not satisfied,
so he added this : A pestilence raged in Ireland and swept off
King Ercleus and his nine children. Then a pretender laid his
hand on the crown. The nobles thereupon sought out Maudez,
who was abbot of his monastery, and insisted not only on his
assuming the kingly dignity, but also on his marrying the
daughter of the pretender. Maudez asked for a night and day
to consider the proposal, and he prayed to God to deliver him,
whereupon he became covered with the most disgusting sores —
at sight of which the nobles declined to favour his elevation, and
the damsel absolutely refused to receive him as a husband.
The author of the first Life clearly knew no more of the early
1^ *
->^
November i8 ] Celttc and EyigUsk Kalenda^". 307
life of Maudez than what he related — in a word, knew little
more of him than his actions when in Brittany. There he
arrived with two disciples, Tudy and Bodmael, and he settled
in an islet of the Brehat archipelago, on the north coast of
Domnonia, and there he died after having founded a monastery.
But that he took Cornwall on the way is rendered almost
certain by the fact that both he and Tudy have left their names
there as founders. And this Cornish visit was apparently pre-
ceded by one to Wales, for Tudy is known there as Tegwyn {see
September 14), the son of Ithel Ilael. In Cornwall, Maudez is
supposed to have come from Wales, and to have been driven
thence by the Saxons, and to have established himself on a rock
in Roseland by the mouth of the Fal, where he miraculously
produced a fountain, and where he also carved for himself a
chair in stone. The district, one of rhos or moor, was treeless,
and thence the name given to Roseland or Llanau Rhos, the
Churches of the Heath, the region comprising four parishes.
The ancient chapel of S. Mawes was existing till 1812, when it
was pulled down and a new church erected on its site. The well
of S. Mawes is still in use ; and incorporated with some stonework
at the foot of a house hard by, is one side of his reputed chair.
From this chair, according to the Life, Mawes instructed his
disciples Tudy and Bodmael, and others who are not named.
When they were not listening to his teaching or praying, they
were wont to assemble by the chair near the water, and go over
the instruction they had received, so as to engrave it deep on
their memories. They were, however, much disturbed by a
great seal that came up and stared at them, gamboled, and
made noises. And this came to the ears of Mawes.
One day he was on his way to the chair, from his cell, when
he saw the seal, and immediately rushed at it, armed with a
stone. The brute took to the water at once, but when it rose,
Mawes hurled at it the stone, struck it, and it sank. The spot
where it rose was on a rock that stood up out of the water, now
called Blackrocks, and the stone he threw remained lodged on
the top. It was a notable cast, for the spot is nearer Pendennis
Point than S. Mawes' cell. This poor seal the saint was con-
vinced was an evil spirit — "a Tuthe," as the author of the Life
says the Britons called it. In Breton this would be Tuz, and
we may find in the word the "Deuce," so commonly used in the
West of England as expressing a spirit of mischief and con-
trariety. In fact, one of those genii of whom S. Augustine says,
" Dreinones quos Dusios Calli nuncupant."
According to Cornish tradition, after a while Mawes left
^
-*
*-
3o8
Lives of the Saints. [Novbmberiq.
-^
Cornwall and crossed over to Brittany, and we learn from liis
biographer that he arrived in the island that has since borne his
name in the Br^hat archipelago. Here he founded a monastery.
One day the fire had gone out, and Mawes sent his disciple
Bodmael across the mainland when the tide was low to fetch
him some. Bodmael entered a cottage, when a woman con-
sented to give him red-hot coals if he would carry them in his
lap. To this he consented ; but as he was returning with the
fire the tide rose, and Mawes, to his dismay, saw that his pupil
would be engulfed. However, he prayed, and a rock rose
under the disciple, and as the tide lifted so did the rock, and
when the tide had ebbed, Bodmael came to the island uninjured,
and the fire unextinguished. If there be any basis of truth in
the story, then it may belong to the period in Cornwall, just
as well as to that in Brittany. I am not sure that it would be
possible for a man to cross to Lanmodey on the coast, and back,
except in a boat ; but it would be quite possible to send any one
across the creek of Porthcuel River to S. Anthony in Roseland.
The name of Maudez or Mawes is by no means unknown in
Ireland. He is there called Moditeus ; but neither Ussher nor
Lanigan were acquainted with the acts of S. Maudez, in the Life,
Maudetus, and so were unable to identify him. Unhappily, we
have no Irish account which can enable us to ascertain from
what family he issued. The Life was probably composed by a
monk of I'Ue Modez, and he has transferred to it the incidents
of the quest of fire and the seal. There is an old thorn-tree on
the island which goes by the name of the Chaire de S. Modez.
19 Llwydian, C. Anglesey, end of ph cent.
BuDOC, B. Dol, end of 6th century ; see December
9 (L-)-
Medana, V. IVestmeath and Scotland.
Ermenburga or Domneva, Abss. Thanet, circa 690.
Egbert, Ahp. York, a.d. 766.
Medana, according to the lesson in the Aberdeen Breviary,
was an Irish virgin who, fleeing from tlie advances of a soldier,
came on a vessel, with two handmaids, to Scotland. Being still
pursued, she got on a stone, with her maids, and floated thirty
miles to a place called Fames. The soldier still pursuing her, she
climbed up a tree and pulled out her eyes. After that her attrac-
tions failed to excite the soldier, and he let her descend the tree
*-
-*
*-
-*
November 19.]
Celtic and English Kalendar.
309
unmolested. She died on the 31st October, but her festival was
observed on 19th November. She seems to be the same as S.
Midhnat, virgin, of Killucan, in Westmeath, commemorated in
Irish kalendars on i8th November. Her chapel is a natural cave,
to which masonry has been added.
Ermenburga or Domneva, daughter of Ermenred, King of
Kent, was given in marriage to Merewald, son of Penda. She
and her pious husband devoted themselves to the spread of
religion in Mercia. They were the parents of S. Milburga, S.
Mildred, and S. Mildgytha, and their son Merefin was "led
away to heaven in his youth." Ermenburga was called into
Kent to settle the "blood-geld," or fine to be paid for the
murder of her brothers Ethelred and Ethelbert, who were killed
by Egbert, King of Kent, at the instigation of his chief eorlder-
man, Thanor. The murder was committed at Eastry. The
facts becoming known, he was called upon to pay the blood-fine
to the nearest of kin, and Ermenburga accordingly went to Kent
to demand it. She claimed as much land as her tame deer
could run round in a single course. The hind enclosed an area
of ten thousand acres. Within this the monastery of Minster-
in-Thanet was erected, and there Ermenburga assumed the
name of Domneva or Domina Ebba, and became first abbess
She died about 690.
Egbert was the son of Eata, and was raised to be Bishop of
York during the reign of Ceolwulf, King of Northumbria. The
princes of the northern kingdom were very desirous of dis-
engaging the see of York from the control of Canterbury, in
the southern kingdom. Bede himself saw the advantage of this,
and drew up a scheme of religious reformation, one of the prin-
cipal features of which was the revival of the archbishopric
which Pope Gregory had originally designed to set up in the
north ; and this suggestion was soon realised, for Egbert pro-
cured from Rome his recognition as archbishop in 735. Egbert
had founded in his cathedral city the celebrated school, of which
Alcuin was the most distint^uished pupil. Bede was his intimate
friend, and to him he wrote his last letter on ecclesiastical dis-
cipline. In his Metrical History of the Bishops of York, Alcuin
speaks in high terms of the holy life and zeal for God's service
that were manifest in Egbert. In 738 Edbert, brother of Egbert,
became King of Northumbria, and king and prelate worked
most harmoniously together.
The whole of the northern quarter and much of the eastern
quarter of the city of York had been given up to the Church by
Edwin, and in the midst of this the king had reared a little
*-
-►i<
*
3IO Lives of the Saints. [November 2o-2t.
wooden chapel for Paulinus, and had begun a larger church in
stone. But his fall stopped the progress of this building, and
Wilfrid in 670 found the church almost in ruins, the windows
covered with mere trellis-work, and the roof rotted with the
rain. Wilfrid energetically undertook to rear a cathedral that
should rival the buildings of Hexham and Ripon, and its en-
largement and decoration were actively carried on by Egbert.
The king, Edbert, resigned the crown in 75S, in discourage-
ment at a crushing disaster he had encountered at the hands of
the Britons of Strathclyde two years before. He retired into a
monastery, and the archbishop joined him. Egbert died in 766,
and was laid beside his brother in York Minster.
20 EvAL, B.C. Cormvall, 6th cent.
Celynin, C. Carnarvon and Merioneth, ']th cent.
Edmund, K.M. Hoxne, Suffolk, a.d. 870 (L.).
EvAi., or EvALL, or Uvellus, is probably Ufelwyn, son of
Cennydd, and grandson of Gildas ; he was brother of S. Filius
of Phileigh. He is believed to have been one of the British
bishops who met Augustine in the celebrated conference relative
to the mission to the Saxons. He is known in Brittany as Uvol
or Urfol. His feast day at S. Eval is on November 20, at
Wythiel, also dedicated to him on November 23.
Celynin was one of the sons of Helig, whose territory was
inundated, and whose sons became members of the colleges of
Bangor in Arfon, and Anglesey. He is not to be confounded
with a namesake, one of the sons of Cynyr Farfdrwch, who lived
a century earlier.
Edmund. According to the local legend the king had con-
cealed himself under a bridge, and was discovered by the
reflection of his golden spurs in the water. The bridge is to
this day called Gilt-spur Bridge.
The tree against which S. Edmund stood when shot at was a
mighty old oak, indicated by tradition. A few years ago the
tree was blown down. On its being cut up it was found to
contain a number of arrow-heads embedded in the wood. At
Brome Hall, near the site, a block of the oak is preserved, with
the arrow-heads still in it.
21 DiGAiN, C. Denbighshire, ^th cent.
COLUMBANUS, Ab. Bobbio, A.D. 615 (L.).
DiGAiN was brother of Erbin and son of Constantine, King
-*
-^.^
November 22
-23.1 Celtic and Enolisk Kalendar. 3 1 1
22
of Cornwall. He founded a church in Denbighshire, Llan-
gernyw, or the "Church of the Cornishman." Erbin is S.
Ervan in Cornwall, but Digain has left no trace of himself in
Cornwall.
23 Paulinus or Pawl Hen, Ab. B. Carmarthenshire, late
e^th cent.
Deiniol the Younger or Deiniolen, Ab. Bangor,
Carnarvonshire, circa a.d. 620.
Paulinus or Peulin ; in Welsh, Pawl H^n, or the Aged.
In the Cambrian Register he is entered as I'olin, bishop. The
epithet of "O Fanaw" applied to him would indicate that he
was a native of the Isle of Man. He came to Caerworgon,
where he became a disciple of S. lUtyd, and then moved
south, and founded a monastery in 480 at Tygwyn at Daf,
or the White Habitation on the Teify. It became known
after the Norman Conquest as Whitland, in Carmarthen, and
is now represented by a few crumbling walls in the midst
of a district devoted to tinplating, and bristling with chimneys.
He was first abbot of his monastery and in episcopal orders.
From his fame as a teacher, many saints came to study under
him ; and he had the moulding of both S. David and S.
Teilo. In the Life of S. David it is said that Paulinus had
lost his eyesight through inflammation setting in. Then he
said to David, " Look into my eyes, for they pain me." " Lord
Master," answered he, "do not order me to look at thy eyes;
for the ten years since I came to thee to be instructed, I have
not looked into thy face." This is supposed to have been an
eminent token of humility on the part of David. However,
the disciple ventured to put his hands on the eyes of the old
abbot, and from that moment the inflammation abated, and in a
few days Paulinus was able to see again, and attributed his
recovery to the merits of David — or the biographers supposed
that he did.
If there be any foundation at all for the story, it is this, that
Paulinus had sore eyes through something getting into them,
which David was able to remove.
Then an angel bade Paulinus send away David to finish his
education at Glastonbury, and this he did.
>±l-
-y*
312 Lives of the Saints. [November 23.
Paulinus attended the council of Llanddewi Brefi, which took
place before 569, say Haddan and Stubbs ; the date usually given
it is 519. There were present a hundred and eighteen bishojjs,
if we may trust the second Life of S. David, besides numerous
chiefs and priests, laymen and women. Why Llanddewi Brefi
was chosen is not clear. There was a large swamp occupying
the junction of the Afon and Teify. Probably the place — where
stood the ancient Loventium, a Roman city — was not wholly
desolate, and there may have been a church there, afterwards
removed to Llanddewi. Moreover, Loventium was on the great
paved way Sam Helen. But the place— so runs the tale-
was not found suitable ; the bishops made a great heap of gar-
ments, and the speakers who addressed the assembly stood on
top of this ; but the expedient was unsatisfactory. "They en-
deavoured to preach from the top of this raised heap of clothes,
but, as if from an obstructed throat, the discourse scarcely reached
those nearest." Then Paulinus remarked to his fellows that he
did not see his old pupil, David, who ou^ht to be there, and, at
his advice, Deiniol and Dyfrig or Dubricius went to Menevia to
fetch him.
No sooner had David arrived, than with clear common-sense
he saw that the assembly was gathered in an unsuitable spot,
and at his advice it moved away from the ruined city of Loven-
tium, to where was an old tump, a mound formerly fortified,
such as are common throughout South Wales, from the top of
which it was easy to address a great crowd. This is the probable
explanation of the fable told in his Life, that a mound rose up
under the feet of David, and dispensed with the need for the
heap of old clothes. Moreover, if this explanation be right,
we see that the synod was appointed to meet at Loventium, but
that for the sake of the moated tump, was shifted a little way
off to where now stands Llanddewi Brefi, that has given its
name to the synod.
We hear no more of S. Paulinus. He lived to a great age, and
retired from his monastery to Caio — perhaps he retired there
immediately after the council, along Sarn Helen — and there he
died. His inscribed stone was found at Pant-y-Polion, that is,
the Dip in the Land of Paulinus, and it bears the following
inscription : —
Servatur fidaei
Patrieq : semper
Amator hie Paulin
us jacit cultor pienti
simus sequi.
* *
^-
-*
November 23] Celtic UJid EngUsk Kulendiir. 3 1 3
A guardian of the faith, a true lover of his country, and holy
minister of God's word to the people— that is what I'aulinus was,
on the testimony of this stone. The monument is preserved
in Dolaucothi House. He was the father of SS. Peulan,
Gwyngeneu, and Gwenfaen.
Deiniolen, Deiniolfab, or Deiniol the Younger, was
son of S. Deiniol, Abbot and Bishop of Bangor, in Carnarvon-
shire. He was educated at Bangor- Iscoed, in Flintshire, under
his grandfather Dunawd. After the destruction of the abbey in
613, he retired into his father's monastery, and succeeded to the
abbacy. The account of the disaster which caused him to fly is
told by Bede. Ethelfred fought the Britons, and made a great
slaughter at Chester. " Being about to give battle, he observed
their priests, who were come together to offer up their prayers
to God for the soldiers, standing apart in a place of more safety.
He inquired who they were, and why they had gathered there.
Most of them were from the monastery of Bangor, in which, it
is reported, there was so great a number of monks, that the
monastery was divided into seven parts with a ruler over each,
none of those parts containing less than three hundred men, who
all lived by the labour of their hands. Many of these, after a
fast of three days, placed themselves under the protection of one
Brocmael, who undertook to defend them against the swords of
the barbarians whilst they were engaged in prayer for his success.
King Ethelfred (of Northumbria), on hearing why they had come,
said, ' If they cry to their God against us, although not bearing
arms, they are in truth our adversaries, fighting against us by their
prayers.' He therefore commanded them to be attacked first,
and then destroyed the rest of the impious army. About twelve
hundred of those that came to pray are said to have been killed, and
only fifty to have escaped by flight. Brocmael, instead of defend-
ing them, as he ought, at the first approach of the enemy, turned
and fled, and left them exposed to the swords of their enemies."
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle makes the number slain to have
been two hundred. Perhaps Bede inadvertently reckoned the
entire loss of the British in that battle as one of monks who
were massacred. The destruction of the monastery of Bangor-
Iscoed followed immediately.
It is characteristic of theologic rancour that even the gentle
Bede exults over this horrible butchery as a judgment on the
British Church for not accepting the self-assertive supremacy of
Augustine. Deiniolen must have been either left behind in
Bangor before the battle, or have been one of those who were
so happy as to escape from it. He died about 621.
*-
314 Lives of the Saints. [November 24-25.
24 MiNVER or Menefreda, V. Cornwall, 6th cent. ; also
July 13.
MiNVER or Menefreda is a reputed daughter (actually
granddaughter) of Brychan of Brecknock ; in Domesday the
parish of Minver, in Cornwall, is called Rosminvet. The Latin
form of the name is Menefreda. This is a singular compound.
The original saint was Mwynen, granddaughter of Brychan, and
was perhaps known in Cornwall as Mwynfriw. Gwenfrewi
became the Winefreda of the monastic scribes, and Mwynfriw
would naturally be rendered in Latin, Menefrida.
Mwyn signifies mild, gentle, and courteous. Minver is
probably a corruption of Mwyn-vawr, the Great Mwynen, in
contradistinction to a chapel in the same parish which was
Mwyn-vach, but which has disappeared.
Mwynen was the daughter of Brynach, the Irishman, who
founded a church in North Devon, on his return to Wales
from Brittany. Her brother Gerwyn or Berwyn founded a
church in Cornwall, and this is probably the Merryn of North
Cornwall, and Berwyn of an old Cornish calendar, quoted by
William of Worcester. It is noticeable that the church of S.
Minver is near that of S. Enoder, which is, in fact, a chapelry in
the parish ; and Enoder is Cynydr, whose mother was a daughter
of Brychan, consequently Enoder and Minver were cousins.
There was quite a colony of relatives in the neighbourhood.
Beside her uncle Merryn, there were S. Teath, S. Mabyn, and,
at Tintagel, S. Materiana.
25 Catherine Audley, R. Ledbury, circa a.d. 1400.
Catherine Audley. According to the legend, there lived
at Ledbury, at the close of the fourteenth century, a holy woman,
whose name was Katharine Audley, and she was called S.
Katharine. She came there with her maid Mabel, and she
stayed there because it had been revealed to her that she was
to dwell where she heard the bells ring of themselves, and she
lived upon milk and herbs. Now she had a mare, and it came to
pass that this mare with her colt was stolen, and the saint prayed
that the thief might be found by the tracks of the mare's feet.
But the thief, fearing the prayers of the saint, had led the mare
along the course of the brook ; yet it was so, that on the stones
of the brook all the way were found the marks of the mare's
feet and of the colt's, and also of the pattens of the maid who
*-
-*
^
NOVEMHER 25 ]
Celtic and Bngiish Kalendar.
15
stole them ; and so this wicked deed was made known, and the
saint recovered that which she had lost. The most distinctly
marked of the stones used formerly to be collected as charms or
safeguards against robbery ; but less clear impressions are fre-
quent in the main and smaller water-courses. On a fragment
lately secured, however, the " colt's foot " is deeply and exactly
defined, while near it as distinct a circular groove marks the
"maid's patten," the nature and colouring of the stone showing
plainly how the harder portions had resisted the action of the
water. The story of S. Katharine's mare and colt was firmly
believed in the district early in the present century ; and local
antiquaries, in papers read before their societies forty or fifty
years ago, while rejecting the element of miracle, yet referred
the footprints to ' ' antediluvian " animals, including, apparently,
even the " patten "-wearing " maid," who, there is reason to fear,
must have been the faithless domestic of the saint herself.
There would be nothing in this myth distinguishing it from
any ordinary popular legend, but for the curiously precise his-
torical element which appears to be mixed up with the mediaeval
miracle. The phenomenon of the seeming hoof-marks would
inevitably have involved some story to account for them ; and S.
Katharine was not only a saint generally held in honour in
England, but also of special regard at Ledbury, where a chapel
of S. Katharine still remains in the parish church, and where a
S. Katharine's Hospital was founded in 1232 by Hugh Ffolliott,
Bishop of Hereford ; this survives under the government of
the church of Hereford, and has never been perverted into a
sinecure or an abuse. It would thus have been very natural
that the miracle of the Sapey and other brooks should have
been ascribed to S. Katharine V.M. ; but the place of this
well-known saint has been strangely usurped in the existing
form of the legend by an indigenous Katharine with the non-
ecclesiastical surname of Audley, to whom, according to the
local guide-book, "the king, in consideration of her birth, or
piety, or both, granted an annuity of ^30." At the Dissolution
the revenues of the Hospital of S. Katharine of Ledbury were
returned at ^^32, 7s. lid. annually; and an "annuity of ^^30"
in the reign of Edward H. would have provided a "religious
woman and her maid," we may be sure, with much better fare
than "herbs and milk." From this odd detail in the story the
clue to the perplexity is obtained. The Close Rolls of 16, 17,
and 18 Edward H. in the Public Record Office exhibit the
grant of this large annuity to " Katharine de Audele," expressly
described as " Recluse of Ledebury," and designated in both
I
•i*-
-^
*
3 1 6 Lives of the Saints. [November 26-28.
. documents as " dilecta nobis in Christo." The Sheriff of Here-
ford is ordered to take into the king's hands certain specified
lands in the county, and out of the revenues to pay the annuity,
with arrears of j^22, to the said Katharine, the remainder of the
issues to be paid into the king's chamber. Subsequent orders to
the same effect are addressed to John Wroth, Keeper of the
Manors aforenamed. For what reason so munificent a grant
was made by the king for the support of the " recluse" is not
evident ; but the lady had not always found her vocation in a
religious life, and if the bells ever rang at Ledbury in her be-
half, the occasion was anything but supernatural. The Close
Roll of 7 Edward II. has a record setting forth how " Katharine
de Audeleie granted to James de Ferrers and Ela his wife, her
daughter, the castle and town of Thlanandeuery," &c., the grant
being "dated at Ledbury." The lady, after having seen her
daughter well settled, in every sense of the word, upon a Welsh
estate, would seem to have adopted the profession of a " recluse "
upon a very comfortable provision for her old age, and to have
had little need to trouble herself about a casually missing cart-
horse— unless, indeed, under this legend, too, may lie hidden
some memory of armed marauders ; for Ledbury, like Much
Cowarne, lies on an obvious line of inroad from the Welsh
border.
26
27 Gallgo or Gallgof, C. Wales, 6th cent.
ViRGiLius, B. Salzburg, a.d. 780 (L.).
Gallgo was a son of Caw, and he founded the church of
Llanallgo, in Anglesey.
28 Patrician, B. Sutherlandshirc, ^Ik cent.
Secundinus, B. Dunshaughlin, Meath, a.d. 458 (L.).
Patrician is said to have fled before the Saxons, being a
bishop of the Romano-Britons, probably in Strathclyde, and
taken refuge in Sodor or the Isle of Man, where he was given
lands by King Congal. In Dempster's " Scottish Menology " he
is given on the loth October.
Secundinus, Auxilius, and Isserninus were bishops who
came to assist S. Patrick in his labours in Ireland about 439.
^-
-*
November 29.] Celtic and EngUsJi Kalendiiv. 317
Secundinus and Auxilius were his nephews, sons of his sister
Darerca, according to a late account. It is also very doubtful
that they were bishops when they arrived in Ireland, unless they
came from some Celtic monastery, where bishops were numerous.
Moreover, according to other accounts they were consecrated by
S. Patrick himself. About 443 S. Patrick left Secundinus in
Meath, to build up his converts in the faith, whilst the apostle
himself went on into Leinster and Munster. The suffraganship
of Secundinus lasted about six years, and he died in 448. His
usual place of residence was Dunshaughlin, but his was a roving
commission, and there were then no territorial sees.
29 Barrwg, H.C. Barry Isle, Glamorganshire, e,th cent.
Sadwrn, H.C. Anglesey and Carmarthenshire, early
6th cent.
Egelwin, C. Athelney, Somersetshire, ph cent.
Barrwg or Barruc was a disciple of S. Cadoc. The
abbot sailed with him one day to the island off the coast of
Glamorganshire, that has since borne the name of Barry. Along
with Barrwg was another, Gwalches. When Cadoc had landed
he asked for his little prayer-book. The disciples confessed
that they had forgotten it. In a fury he ordered them to re-
embark and recover it, and then, his anger getting the better of
him, he cursed them that they might never return. They went
to where the book had been left, and brought it to the boat, and
stepped in again, but on tlieir way to the island were swamped
and drowned, Cadoc looking on the while. The body of Barrwg
was carried to the shore and was buried, but that of Gwalches
was swept by the current to another islet. For what particular
reason Barrwg was esteemed a saint does not transpire.
Sadwrn Farchog or " the Knight." was a brother of S.
Illtyd, and a disciple of S. Cadfan, whom he accompanied to
Wales. He founded churches in Anglesey and Carmarthenshire.
There is another Sadwrn mentioned in the second legend of S.
Winefred, which is a very untrustworthy document, even more
so than the first. But there is no allusion to him in either the
first legend or in tlie Life of S. Beuno, and this other Sadwrn is
therefore proliably mythical.
It is a mistake to identify Sadwrn with Saturninus in the
Roman Martyrology, as is commonly done. Sadwrn is the
Welsh form of Saturnus, and Saturninus would in Welsh be
^-
-*
3 1 8 Lives of the Samts. [XchmbL^° "
o
Sadyrnyn, which actually occurs as the name of a sixth-century
saint, the son of Sadwrn Hen, son of Cynyr of Caer Gawch and
brother of S. Non. To this saint the church of Llansadwrnen,
in Carmarthenshire, is dedicated. The festival of the latter is
not given in any of the Welsh kalendars ; but Rees, through
confusing the two saints, gives it under this day.
Sadyrnyn was also the name of a bishop of S. David's, who
died about 831.
Egelvvin was brother of Kenwalch, King of the West .Saxons.
He was a man of infirm health, but of great piety, and resigna-
tion to the will of God. He was venerated at Athelney, where,
however, the abbey had not at that time been founded. He
lived in the seventh century.
30 TUGDUAL, B. Ab. Brittany, 6th cent. (L.).
TUGDUAL. See " Les Trois vies anciennes de S. Tudwal," by
A. de la Borderie, Paris, Champion, 1S77.
DECEMBER
Grwst, C. Denbighshire, early 'jth cent.
Deiniol Wyn, or the Blessed, B. Bangor, 6th cent.;
also September 11, December 10 (L.).
Grwst or Gorwst was of the family of Urien Rheged, and
founded the church of Llanrwst, Denbighshire. He lived early
in the seventh century. ^
IssERNiNUS, B. Ireland, a.d. 469.
Llechid, v. Carnarvonshire, 6th cent.
Trumwin, B. Picts, A.D. 686 (L.) ; also February 10.
IsSERNiNUS, a Briton by l)irth, was summoned by S. Patrick
to assist him in his work in Ireland. Isserninus had as his
associate Auxilius ; and for an account of their journey see the
note on the latter (^September 16). He is said to have received
clerical orders the same day that Patrick was consecrated bishop.
He was appointed to be bishop at Kilcullen, and attended the
synod at Armagh in 456. He died in 469. The Church in
^-
1^ —
decembf-r 3-5] Celtic afid E7tglish Kaleiidar. 319
Ireland certainly owes to Isserninus a great debt of gratitude as
one of her founders.
Llechid was a daughter of Ithel Hael, and sister of several
saints.
3 Lleurwg or Lucius, K.C. Wales and Coire (L.).
BiRiNUS, B. Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, a.d. 654 (L.).
4 Osmund, B. Sah'sbury, a.d. 1099 (L.).
5 Cawrdaf, K. Brecknockshire, circa a.d. 560.
Justinian, H.M. Ramsey, off Pembrokeshire, circa A.D.
540.
Cawrdaf was the son of Caradog Freichfras, or Strong i' the
Arm. Caradog was grandson of Brychan and Earl of Gloucester,
a contemporary of King Arthur, and, in the legendary story, one
of the Knights of the Round Table, and Keeper of the Castle
Dolorous. The wife of Caradog and mother of Cawrdaf was
Tegau Eurfron, or Of the Golden Breast, celebrated by the
bards as one of the three chaste women of Britain, who possessed
three valuable ornaments, a knife, a golden cup, and a mantle,
the latter of which is the subject of a famous ballad given
by Percy in his " Reliques." It was one that could only he
worn by a really chaste woman. It could be contained between
two nut-shells, and had the property —
" Itt shall never become that wiffe
That hath once done amisse."
When Guenever tried it on —
" Shee stoode as shee had been madd.
It was from the top to the toe
As sheeres had it shread.
One while it was gule (red) ;
Another while was itt greene ;
Another while it was wadded (woaded — blue),
111 itt did her beseeme.
Another while it was blacke
And bore the worst hue :
By my troth, quoth King Arthur,
I thinke thou be not true."
■^
320 Lives of the Saints. [Decembers.
But when the wife of Caradog Freichfras put on the mantle —
" Upp at her great toe
It l)egan to crinkle and crowt ;
She said, Bowe downe, mantle,
And shame me not for nought.
Once I did amisse,
I tell you, certainlye,
When I kist Craddocke's (Caradog's) mouth
Under a green tree ;
When I kist Craddocke's mouth
Before he married mee.
When she had her shreeven
And her sines had tolde,
The mantle stood about her
Right as she wold,
Seemelye of color,
Glittering like gold.
Then every knight in Arthur's court
Did her behold.^"
So was the knife a token of fidelity, and that Craddocke won.
Caradog had by this good wife six sons, of whom Cawrdaf
was the eldest. On the death of Caradog he succeeded his
father in the rule over Brecknock and Fferegs, which comprised
a part of Herefordshire. In the triads he is spoken of as one of
the three prime ministers of Britain, also as one of the seven
blessed first cousins of Britain. He was married and left issue,
Cadell, Cathen, Iddawg, and Medrod. Later in life he became
a member of the college of S. Illtyd, and died about 560. A
saying attributed to him is, " The promoter of work is the
cautious hand."
Justinian or Stinan was a native of Brittany, who came to
Wales, and settled in the island of Ramsey, off Pembrokeshire,
where he lived an eremitical life, and enjoyed the confidence of
S. David. He was murdered, it is said, because he had reproved
the vices of some of the Welsh, who took offence at his plain
speaking. According to the legend, they cut off his head,
whereupon a spring welled up on the spot. Then his body got
up, and taking the head between the hands, walked down to the
shore, passed over on the water to the mainland, and then fell.
Thereupon S. David buried head and body with great solemnity.
This is merely a fanciful way of saying that after the murder, S.
David transported the dead man to the mainland, and saw to
its interment. The date is about 540.
*-
^-
->^
December 6-12] Celtlc and EngHsJi KaleJiciav. 321
7 BuiTH or BoETHius, C. Scotland, a.d. 521.
BuiTH or BoETHius was a Scot, who rambled about the
Continent for some thirty years, and made the acquaintance in
Germany of S. Codrus, with whom he returned to North Britain,
where he restored to life the daughter of the King of the Picts.
He received a grant of lands at Carbuddo, near Dunnichen, and
died the same day on which S. Columba was born, 521.
8
9 BuDOC, Ab. B. Dol, 6th cent.
Ethelgiva, F. Abss. Shaftesbury, a.d. 896.
BuDOC. There were three of this name : (i) an abbot in the
isle of Brehat, about 470, who educated S. Winwaloe ; (2) a
bishop of Dol, who succeeded S. Samson in 585 ; (3) a bishop of
Vannes, about 600.
Ethelgiva, daughter of King Alfred the Great and Ethel-
witha. Her father built and endowed the monastery of Shaftes-
bury, and appointed her abbess. After a life of great sanctity
she died in 896.
10 Deiniol or Daniel, B. Bangor, 6th cent. (L.).
1 1 Beris or Berrys, C. Denbighshire, of unknown date.
CiAN, C. Carnarvonshire, 6th cent.
CiAN, a warrior, who is mentioned by Aneurin in the
" Gododin," and is supposed to have retired to Wales, where
he devoted his life to religion. He is spoken of as " servant of
S. Peris" (July 26).
12 Finnan, B. Clonard, a.d. 552 (L.).
Fflewyn, C. Anglesey, 6th cent.
Fflewvn was the son of Ithel Hael, and with his brother
Gredifael was appointed by Pawl Plen to preside over the
monastery of Ty Gwyn, on the Taf, when he was old and failing.
VOL. XVI. X
-*
-*
32 2 Lives of tJie Saints. [December 13-17.
13 GwYNAN and Gwynws, CC. IVaks, ^th cent.
JUDOC, P.C. Ponthieu, ']th cent.; see January 8 and
July 25 (L.).
Ffinan, B. Anglesey, 6th cent.
GwYNAN and GwYNWS were descendants of Brychan. Llan-
wnws, in Cardigan, is dedicated to the latter.
Ffinan, a saint, bishop, and philosopher, who was descended
from a noble family in Ireland, and resided with S. David at
Menevia about 530. According to Irish accounts, a king in
Wales was so great an admirer of his virtue, that he granted
him lands, and even a town there, and he erected three churches
and spent twenty years there. The Welsh records do not
confirm any of these statements. Ffinan is no other than the
illustrious Finnian of Clonard, commemorated on February 23
and on December 12, on which day his life is given in the text.
14 FiNGAR, M., and Piala, V.M. Hayle, Cornwall, t^th
cent.; see March 23 (L.).
15 Drostan, B. Scotland, circa a.d. 600.
Drostan was a companion of S. Columba on the occasion of
the visit of the great Irish saint to Bede, the Pictish prince, at
Aberdour, in Buchan. The site of the Abbey of Deer was
given to them, and S. Columba left Drostan there as first
abbot. Drostan was of the royal stock of the Scots. His
date is about 600.
16 Bean, B. Mortlach, Scotland, a.d. 1012 (L.).
17 Tydecho, C. Merioneth and Montgomery, middle of
6th cent.
Tydecho, son of Amwn Ddu, or the Black, was cousin of
S. Cadfan. He left Armorica along with his sister Tegfedd,
and settled in the district of Mawddwy, in Merionethshire.
There he was much troubled by Maelgwn Gwynedd, prince of
North Wales, upon whom he retaliated by performing a host
of miracles, and forced the tyrant to make amends. Then his
^' ^
*-
-*
December iS-24.]
Celtic and English Kalendcw,
323
sister Tegfedd was abducted by another chief, Cynon, who,
however, was in like manner compelled to restore her unhurt.
Tydecho is named in the Life of S. Padarn. He belongs to
the middle of the sixth century. His legend was put into verse
by a bard of the fifteenth century ("Cambrian Register," ii.
375-385 ; "i- 540).
18 Flannan, B. Killaloe, ']th cent. (L.).
19 Samthana, Abss. Clonebrone, Ireland, 8ih cent.
20
21
22 Ernan, Mk. C. Dnimhome, in Donegal, a.d. 640 (L.);
also January i.
23 Mazota, V. Abernethy, 'jth cent. (L.).
Frithebert, B. Hexham, a.d. 766.
Frithebert succeeded Acca as Bishop of Hexham. He
ruled as well the diocese of Lindisfarne during the imprison-
ment of Cynewalch, the bishop. " The time was one of anarchy
after the death of Edbert. Men of unknown lineage disputed
the throne with the kings of royal stock ; revolts of the nobles
added to the general disorder ; and the fierce blood-shedding
which characterised the successive strifes for the crown showed
the moral deterioration of the country. Isolated as Northumbria
had become, its isolation became even more pronounced in these
fifty years of anarchy ; for even the intermarriages of its kings
with the other kingly houses all but ceased, and the northern
realm hardly seemed to form part of the English people.
" In spite, however, of this anarchy, Northumbria remained to
the last the chief seat of English religion and English learning.
In the midst of its political disorder, learning and the love of
books still flourished at Jarrow and York." ^
24 Levan, B. Treguier, Brittany, and Cornwall (L.).
1 Green, " The Making of England," ed. 1897, vol. ii. p. 186.
^-
324 Lives of the Samts. [December 25-26.
25 Bathan, B. Shetland, a.d. 639.
Alburga, W. Wilton, circa 800.
Alburga was sister or half-sister on her mother's side to
Egbert, King of Wessex, and had to husband Wolstan, Earl of
Wiltshire. He repaired the church of Wilton, and on his death
his widow retired into a convent which she established in con-
nection with the church at W^ilton. She died in 800 or there-
abouts. It is to be regretted that a church so full of rich
English memories should have been reconstructed in a flashy
Italian style, entirely at variance with English traditions.
2 6 Tathan or Tath^us, Ab. Caerwent, and in Glamorgan,
early 6th cent.
Maethlu or Amaethlu, C. Anglesey, 6th ce.nt.
Jarlath, B. Tiiam, circa a.d. 560 (L.).
Tathan or TatH/*:us was a son of Amwn the Black, brother
of Samson of Dol, and was a member of the college of S. IHtyt,
after which he settled in Glamorganshire, and founded a church.
A legend of the twelfth century makes him a son of a King of
Ireland, and this error derogates from the value of the rest of
the story. Leaving Armorica, he, with seven others, took boat
and came to Wales, and landed in Gwent, where they fastened
their boat to an anchor, which they struck into the sand. Some
mischievous person, when they were at dinner with a landowner
on shore, loosed the rope ; but a stag hasted from the forest and
held the rope with his feet. S. Tathan then ordered that the
stag should be killed and eaten ; his disciples were greatly
shocked, but the stag lay down and stretched out his neck for
the knife.
S. Tathan was granted land at Gwent, and he kept there a
cow, which supplied him and his disciples with milk. One night
some men turned forty-seven horses into his field, and they
spoiled and ate his hay. As a chastisement all the horses were
struck dead ; but when those who had turned the horses into the
field came and apologised, Tathan restored them all to life.
Tathan then went to the banks of the Severn and settled
there. King Gwynllyw, then in an unconverted condition, one
day invited the saint to him, and he provided as his seat a
caldron full of boiling water, over which rushes were strewn.
He invited the saint to sit down on the rushes, expecting him to
go into the scalding water, but miraculously the rushes became
i^-
-*
-^
December 27-28.] Celttc and EfigUsk Kalcndav. 325
so stiff as to prove " a heavenly support." The legend of S.
Tathan is obviously composed out of popular ballads, which the
monkish scribe has rendered into Latin verses here and there.
In the Life of S. Cadoc he is mentioned. It was he who
baptized that saint. The story goes that when the servant of
Gwynllyw complained at having to fetch water for the rite, and
said that he was tired, and that it was a long climb up the hill,
burdened with water, Tathan prayed, and forthwith a fountain
miraculously sprang forth, at sight of which Cadoc, M'ith three
jumps from his nurse's arms, plunged into the water. Tathan
was given Cadoc to educate. After Cadoc had plunged into
the fountain, it flowed for some time with metheglin ; that is to
say, in plain English, that King Gwynllyw had a great carouse at
the christening of his son, and mead flowed freely.
Cadoc, or, as he was then named, Cathmael, was taught Latin
and grammar by Tathan. It was whilst with him, and as a boy,
that one day, when the fire was gone out, his master sent him to
a husbandman who was drying his oats over a stove or hippocaust,
to let him have some live coals. The fellow said he might take
them if he would carry them in the lap of his garment. Cadoc
took them up, but cursed the boor, on which at once fire
broke out and consumed him, his threshing-floor, and his agri-
cultural implements. Cadoc then went on, bearing the red-hot
charcoal to his master in the fold of his garment. When Tathan
saw this, he exclaimed, " Most dear disciple, it is not for me to
teach you any more," and he dismissed him. Tathan is said to
have dug a hole, and hidden the red-hot sacred coals in it, as a
precious treasure, and there they remained, visited and won-
dered over by many men till the latter part of the eleventh
century, when the place was lost. Probably there was some spot
where a coal seam had become ignited, and popular romance
attributed it to S. Cadoc, and the story was told that it was
fire brought miraculously by him, and put into the rock by S.
Tathan. A saying attributed to him, after a great loss, is
"God will not apportion unjustly."
Maethlu or Amaethi.u was the son of Caradoc Freich-
fras, by Tegau Eurfron (of the Golden Breast), the Chaste, and
possessor of the marvellous mantle. He founded Llanfaethlu,
in Anglesey.
27
^-
-*
^ — —
226 Lives of the Saints. [December 29-31.
29 Thomas a Becket, Abp. M. Canterbury^ a.d. i i 70 (L.).
Thomas A. Becket. The authorities are in the nine volumes
of the Historical Society of Great Britain, " Materials for the
History of Thomas Becket." See also Dom. A. L'Huilliei
"Saint Thomas de Canterbury," 1891.
30 Egwin, B. Worcester, a.d. 717; also January 11 (L.).
31 Maelog, C Wales, 6th cent.
Pawl Hen, Ab. B. Wales {sec November 22).
Maelog, son of Caw, was one of the congregation of S.
Cadoc. It is to be surmised that he was hardly with him in
Scotland when S. Cadoc dug up his father, restored him to life,
and converted the resuscitated prince into a delver, as a common
labourer, or he would surely have raised objections (see CE^VYDD,
July i). Maelog, and his sister Peithian, and brothers Eigrad,
Peirio, and Gallgo, settled in Anglesey, in separate hermitages,
but with their sister in the midst, in the beginning of the sixth
century.
*-
•i<-
.1^
PEDIGREES OF THE BRITISH SAINTS
The materials available for the pedigrees of the Welsh
Saints are these : —
1. Bonedd y Saint^ in " Myvyrian Archaiology " (Denbigh,
1870), pp. 417-431-
In this the Saints are arranged alphabetically, and
was compiled by Lewis Morris in the year 1760, from
a number of Welsh MSS. containing pedigrees of the
Saints.
2. In connection with this, information is obtainable from the
collections of triads in the same work.
3. Bonedd Saint Ynys Prydain, in the same collection, pp.
415-6. This is from a much older MS. than i, as a
whole.
None of these are translated.
4. Achau Saint Ynys Prydain, in the " lolo MSS." (Llandovery,
1848), text, pp. 100-109 ; English, pp. 495-507.
5. Tair Gwelygordd Saint Ynys Prydain, ibid. pp. icg-114,
508-514.
6. Achau a Gwelygorddau Saint Ynys Prydain, ibid. pp. 1 1 5-
134, 515-537-
7. Achau Saint Ynys Prydain (not the same as 4), ibid. pp.
135-146, 538-551-
8. Man-gofion am rai o Saint Ynys Prydain, ibid. pp. 147-153,
552-559-
9. Achau y Saint (different from 4 and 6), in " Lives of the
Cambro-British Saints " (Llandovery, 1853), pp. 265-268 ;
English, 592-597.
3*7
•J"-
328 Lives of the Saints.
10. Achau Saint Cymreig, ibid. pp. 269-271 ; English, 598-pp.
601.
11. De Brachan Brecheiniauc, /(J/c/. pp. 272-275; English, pp.
602-608.
12. Cognacio Brychani, from Cotton. Lib. and Harleian MSS.,
printed in Jones's "History of Brecknock" (Brecknock,
1805), vol. ii. pp. 342, 343-
13. A Jesus Coll. Cognacio, given by Jones, Appendix V,
14. Pedigrees from Jesus College MS. 20, printed in " Y Cym-
mrodor," viii. 83-90 (1887).
15. Bonedd Saint Kymry in the Mostyn MS. \\\{circ. 1592),
of which a transcript is printed in the " Report on MSS.
in the Welsh Language" (Historical MSS. Commission,
i. 54-55, 1898).
16. "Bonedd y Saint" in "Y Cymmrodor," vii. 133-4 (1884),
from a thirteenth or early fourteenth fragment among
the Hengwrt MSS.
*-
-*
INDICES
*-
-^
>b-
-^
INDEX TO SAINTS WHOSE LIVES
ARE GIVEN
[ 7Vie follou'iug contractions are used to indicate the months :—Jan.
{January), F. {February), Mch. {March), Ap. {April), My. {May),
Ju. {June),Jly. {July), An. {August), S. {Septeinher), O. {October),
N. {Novetnber), D. {December), Appdx. { Vol. xvi-W
S.
ss.
s.
ss.
I)
ss.
s.
ss,
ss.
s.
ss.
s.
ss.
Aaron, Appdx. 245
Aaron and Julius, Jly. I
Abban of Kilabban, O. 652
Abban of Magharnoidhe, O.
653
Abdon and Sennen, Jly. 677
Abibus and comp., N. 334
Abra, D. 170
Abraham, F. 298
Abraham and Mary, Mch. 275
Abrosimus and comp., N. 230
Abundius, Ap. 24
Abundius, Abundantius, and
comp., S. 261
Abundius and Irenasus, Au.
314
Acca, Au. 80
Acca, B. of Hexham, O. 501
Acepsimas and comp., Ap. 298
Achillas, N. 168
Achilles and comp., Ap. 300,
and My. 158
Adalbald, F. 41
Adalbert, Ap. 311, Ju. 361
Adalhardt, Jan. 34
Adalsendis, D. 280
Adamnan, S. 358
Adauctus and Callisthene,
0.64
Adauctus and Felix, Au. 383
Adela and Irmina, D. 274
Adelelm, Jan. 465
Adelhaid, Empress, D. 161
Adelheid, F. 140
Adeloga, F. 42
Adeodatus, Jly. 357
S. Ado, B. of Vienna, D.
199
„ Adrian, Jan. 128
„ Adrian, B. of S. Andrews,
Mch. 59
„ Adrian, M. at Wintershoven,
Mch. 333
.SS. Adrian, Natalia, and comp.,
S. 113
S. Aelhaiarn, Appdx. 288
„ Aelred, Jan. 176
„ /Emilian, F. 212, Ju. 360.
N. 292
„ Afan, Appdx. 305
„ Afra, Au. 59
African Martyrs, Ap. 73
Agape and comp., Ap. 34
Agapetus, Au. 162
Agapetus I., Pope, S. 321
Agapius, N. 458
Agapius and comp., Au. 179
Agatha, F. 136
Agatho, Jan. 137
Agathoclia, S. 272
Agathopus and Thcodulus,
Ap. 61
S. Agilulf, Jly. 211
„ Agleus, O. 357
„ Agnes, Jan. 317
„ Agricola, Mch. 2cS5
SS. Agricola and Vitalis, N.
S. Agrippina, Ju. 308
,, Aibert, Ap. 1 14
„ Aichard, S. 249
,, Aidan, Jan. 471^ Au.
Appdx. 177
SS,
s.
II
ss,
s.
ss.
107
391.
333
*-
-^
134
Index to Saints.
S. Aignan, B. of Orleans, N.
.378
SS. Aigulf and comp., S. 41
S. Ailbe, S. 180
„ Alban, M., at Mainz, Ju. 2S8
„ Alban, M., at Verulam, Ju.
294
„ Alberta, Mch. 212
„ Albinus, Mch. 16
„ Alburga, Appdx. 324
B. Alcuin, My. 263
S. Aldate, Appdx. 179
„ Aldate of Gloucester, Ju. 203
„ Aldegund, Jan. 464
„ Aldetrudis, F. 413
„ Aldhelm, My. 346
„ Aldric, Jan. 96
„ Alena, Ju. 246
„ Alexander, F. 443, Au. 315,
S.325
„ Alexander I., Pope, My. 54
„ Alexander of Apamea, Mch.
203
„ Alexander of Jerusalem, Mch.
312
„ Alexander Accemetus, Jan. 228
„ Alexander Nevski, N. 511
SS. Alexander and comp., My.
418, Jly. 207, O. 564
,, Alexander and Epimachius,
D. 156
S. Alexis, Jly. 413
B. Aleydis of Scharembeke, Ju.
147
S. Alfred the Great, Appdx. 285
„ Alfric, Appdx. 305
„ Alfwold, Mch. 460
„ Algeric, B. of Verdun, D. 2
,, Alkmund, Mch. 334
SS. Alkmund and Gilbert, S. 109
All Saints, N. i
All Souls, N. 42
S. Almedha, Au. 6, Appdx. 258
,, Alnoth, F. 448
SS. Alodia and Nunilo, O. 575
S. Aloysius Gonzaga, Ju. 291
SS. Alphaeus and Zacchaeus, N.
378
S. Alphege, Ap. 229
„ Alphonso Liguori, Au. 21
SS
s.
SS.
s,
SS
s.
SS,
SS.
SS,
s.
SS.
B.
Almann of Passan, Au. 102
Alypius of Tagaste, Au. 144
Amaethlu, Appdx. 325
Amalberga, Jly. 262
Amandus, F. 1S2
Amantius, Mch. 333
Amator, My. 11
Amatus of Lorraine, S. 192
Amatus, B. of Sens, S. 194
Ambrose, D. 74
Ambrose, B. of Cahors, O.
433
Ambrose of Sienna, Mch. 369
Ammon, O. 64
Ammon, Zeno, and others, D.
224
Ammonarium and others, D.
156
Amphilochius, N. 509
Amplias and comp., O. 724
Ananias and comp., F. 412
Anastasia, D. 27S
Anastasia the Elder, and
Cyril, O. 697
Anastasius, Ap. 353, S. 100
Anastasius II., Patriarch of
Antioch, D. 234
Anastasius and comp., Jan.
334
Anatholia and Audax, Jly. 203
Anatolius, B. of Constanti-
nople, Jly. 95
Anatolius, B. of Laodicea,
Jly. 92
Andochius, Thyrsus, and Felix,
S. 361
Andrew, Apost. M., N. 593
Andrew of Crete, Jly. 106, O.
451
Andrew of Rinn, Jly. 302
Andrew the Tribune, Au. 177
Andrew Avellino, N. 233
Andrew Corsini, F. 105
Andrew and comp., My. 205
Andronicus and Athanasia, O.
198
Andronicus and comp., O. 260
Anectus, Ju. 3S7
Aneurin and Gwynoc, O. 646
Angela of Foligni, Jan. 63
-*
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
'> 1 r
S. Angela of Merici, My. 430
S. ApoUonius, Mch. 156, Jly.
„ Angilbert, F. 337
165, Ap. 224
„ Angus of Keld, Mcli. 217
SS. Apostles, The Separation of
,, Anicetus, Ap. 219
the, Jly. 347
SS. Anicetus and Photius, Au. 1 15
Apparition of the Cross, The, Au.
S. Aninas, Mch. 274
180
„ Anne, Jly. 564
Apparition of S. Michael, My.
„ Anno, Abp. of Cologne, D.
"5
29
S. Apphian, Ap. 12
Annunciation, B. V. Mary, Mch.
SS. Appia and Philemon, N. 501
450
S. Apronia, Jly. 357
S. Ansbert, F. 246
SS. Apuleius and Marcellus, O.
„ Ansegis, Jly. 492
154
,, Anselm, Ap. 261
„ Aquila and Priscilla, Jly. 182
„ Ansewin, Mch. 252
S. Aquilina, Ju. 177
„ Anskar, F. 56
SS. Aquilina and Niceta, Jly.
„ Anteros, Jan. 38
526
„ Anthelm of Bellay, Ju. 378
S. Arbogast, Jly. 501
,, Anthimius, Ap. 353
,, Arcadius, Jan. 162
„ Anthony, Jan. 249
SS. Archelaa and others, Jan. 278
SS. Anthusa and Athanasius, Au.
S. Ardalio, Ap. 189
232
SS. Arethas and comp., N. 514
„ Antia and Eleutherius, Ap.
„ Ariald and Herlembald, fu.
223
389
S. Antidius, Ju. 352
S. Arilda, O. 723
SS. Antiochus and Cyriac, Jly.
„ Aristarchus, Au. 34
351
„ Aristion, F. 366
S. Antipas, Ap. 136
„ Aristobalus, Mch. 266
„ Antonina, Mch. 8
,, Armel, Appdx., 264
„ Antoninus, S. 11
SS. Armogastes and comp., Mch.
.SS. Antoninus and comp., N. 311
496
S. Antony of Padua, Ju. 181
S. Arnulf, Jly. 435, Appdx. 268
„ Anysia, D. 406
„ Arnulf of Villars, Ju. 488
„ Anysius, B. of Thessalonica,
„ Arsacius, Au. 150
D. 406
„ Arsenius, Jly. 446
„ Aphraates, Ap. 112
„ Artemas, Jan. 370
„ Aphrodisius, Ju. 282
„ Artemius, O. 496
,, Aphrodisius of Beziers, Mch.
„ Asaph, My. 16
407 _ _
S. Asclas, Jan. 346
,, Aphrodisius of Carthage, Mch.
SS. Asclepiodotus, Maximus, and
256
Theodotus, S. 247
SS. Aphrodisius and comp., A15.
S. Asella, D. 68
358
„ Aspren, Au. 24
S. ApoUinaris, Jly. 519
Assumption of the B. V. M., The,
„ ApoUinaris Synclet, Jan. 70
Au. 141
SS. ApoUinaris and Timothy, Au.
S. Asterius, Mch. 42, 0. 505
243
SS. Asterius and comp., Au. 238
S. ApoUinarius, O. 118
„ Asyncritus and comp., A p.
„ Apollo, Jan. 372
121
„ ApoUonia, F. 231
S. Athanasius, Jan. 38
*-
*-
-*
zz^
Index to Saints.
S. Athanasius, Deac, Jly. 127
S. Barachisius, Mch. 491
„ Athanasius the Great, My. 29
„ Baradatus, F. 368
SS. Athanasius and Anthusa, Au.
,, iJarbara, D. 25
232
,, Barbatus, F. 342
S. Athracta, F. 236
B. Bardo of Mainz, Ju. 133
„ Attala, D. 20
S. Barhadbesciabas, Jly. 500
„ Atticus, Jan. 100
,, Barlaam of Antioch, N. 413
SS. Aucejas and Luceja, Ju. 342
SS. Barlaam and Josaphat, N. 562
„ Audax and Anatholia, Jly.
S. liarnabas, Ju. 139
203
,, Barrwg or Barruc, Appdx.
S. Audifax, Jan. 285
3x7
„ Augulus, F. 190
„ Barsas of Edessa, Jan. 464
„ Augurius, Jan. 312
,, Bartholomew, Ap., Au. 253
„ Augusta, Mch. 483
,, Bartholomew of Fame, fu.
„ Augustine, My. 384
338
„ Augustine of Hippo, Au. 351
,, Barypsabas, S. 147
SS. Augustinus and comp., S. 89
,, Basil of Amasea, Ap. 350
S. Aurea, O. 66
,, Basil of Ancyra, Mch. 407
SS. Aurelius, Sabagotha, and
,, Basil the Great, Ju. 192
comp., Jly. 5S8
SS. Basilides and comp., Ju. 149
,, Aureus and Justina, Ju. 221
j»
Basiliscus and comp., Mch. 44
S. Austell, Appdx. 243
S. Basilissa, S. 35
„ Austremonius, N. 20
,, Basilla, My. 306
„ Austrude, 0. 447
,, Basinus, Mch. 59
„ Autbert, B. of Cambrai, D.
SS. Bassa and sons, Au. 223
171
S. Bassian of Lodi, Jan. 286
„ Autonomus, S. 178
,, Bathild, Jan. 394
„ Auxentius, F. 299
SS. Bathus, Verca, and children,
„ Auxibius, F. 339
Mch. 468
„ Auxilius, Appdx. 275, 316
S. Bavo, 0. 13
„ Aventine, Ju. 75
,, Bean, B. of Mortlach, D. 203
„ Aventine of Chateaudun, F.
,, Beata, S. 89
86
SS. Beatrix, Simplicius, and
„ Aventine of Troyes, F. 84
Faustinus, Jly. 631
„ Avia, My. 94
S. Beatus, My. 136
„ Avitus, F. 138, Ju. 237
, Bede the Venerable, My. 398
„ Aya, Ap. 226
, Bede the Younger, Ap. 132
SS. Azades and comp., Ap. 298
, Bega or Bee, S. 92
, Beggha, D. 207
S. Babolen, Ju. 373
, Begha, N. 27
,, Babylus, Jan. 361
, Belina, F. 344
SS. Bacchus and Sergius, O. 155
, Bellinus, N. 548
S. Baithen or Baitan, Appdx.
, Benedict, Mch. 388
232
, Benedict II., Pope, My. 108
,, Balbina, Mch. 513
, Benedict Biscop, Jan. 167
,, Balderic, O. 427
, Benedict of Aniane, F. 284
,, Baldomer, F. 447
, Benedict the Bl^ck, Ap. 59
,, Baldwin, Jan. 112
»
, Benet of the Bridge, Ap. 198
,, Balthazar, Jan. 148
, Benignus, Abp. of Armagh,
„ Balther and Bilfred, Mch. 94
N. 222
*-
-*
>±<-
-*
Index to Saints.
337
S. Benignus of Dijon, N. 12
,, Benjamin, Mch. 515
,, Benno of Meissen, Ju. 222
„ Berach, F. 307
,, ]5ercharius, O. 431
SS. Berenice and comp., O. 63
S. Berlinda, F. 50
,, Bernard de Alzira and comp,,
All. 226
,, liernard of Clairvaux, Au. 196
,, Bernard of Menthon, Ju. 213
,, Bernardine, My. 309
,, Bernward, B. of Hildesheim,
N. 466
„ Bertellin, S. 139
,, Bertha, jly. 107
,, Berlilia, Jan. 51
,, Bertilla, N. 156
,, Berlin, S. 71
„ Bertoara, D. 161
,, Bertrand, B. of Comminges,
0.436
„ Bertulf, F. 139
„ Besas, F. 442
„ Bessarion, Ju. 236
„ Beuno, Appd.x., 214
,, Bibiana, D. 10
„ Bilfrid, Mch. 94
„ Bilhild, N. 574
,, Birinus, B. of Dorchester, D.
„ Birstan, Appdx. 294
SS. Blaithmac and comp., Jan.
289
S. Blaise, F. 47
,, Blane of Bute, Au. 112
,, Bodagisl, D. 220
,, Bod fan, Appdx. 229
,, Boethius, Appdx. 321
,, Boisil, Appdx. 174
,, Bolonia, O. 415
,, Bonaventura, Jly. 327
,, Bond, or Baldus, O. 70S
Boniface, Lausanne, F. 343
Boniface I., Pope, O. 636
,, Boniface IV., Pope, My. 345
,, Boniface of Mainz, Ju. 41
,, Boniface of Tarsus, My. 191
,, Boniface Quiritine, Mch. 279
SS. Boniface and comp., Au. 159
SS. Boniface and others, O. 62
,, Bonosus and Maximilian, Au.
225
,, Boris and Gleb, S. 75
S. Bosa, Mch. 175
,, Botulph, Ju. 247
,, Botvid, Jly. 609
,, Bradan, B. of Man, O. 49S
,, Braulio, Mch. 46S
SS. Breaca and la., O. 657
S. Breacha, Ju. 36
,, Bregwin, Abp. of Canterbury,
Au. 316
„ Bregwyn, Appdx. 269
,, Brendan of Clonfert, My. 217
,, Brice, B. of Tours, N. 312
,, Bridget, F. 14
,, Briget of Sweden, O. 182
,, Brinstan, Appdx. 294
,, Brioch, My. 20
,, Bristan, Appdx. 294
,, Brithwald, Jan. 131
,, Britwin of Beverley, My. 213
,, Brothen, Appdx. 281
SS. Brothen and Gwendoline, O.
476
S. Bruno, F. 304, O. 141
Brynach Wyddel, Appdx. 209
Budoc, Appdx. 321
Budoc, B. of Dol., D. 118
Buith, Appdx. 321
Burchard, B. of Wiirzburg, O.
354
Burgundofara, or Fara, D. 105
Buriana, Appdx. 226
S. Cadfan, Appdx. 288
Cadfarch, O. 616
Cadoc, Jan. 363, Appdx.
174, 325
Cadwaladr, Appdx. 2S0
Ca;cilia, N. 502
Cassarea, My. 21 1
C?esaria, Jan. 167
Cajsarius, F. 412
Coesarius of Aries, Au. 343
SS. Csesarius and Julian, N. 10
S. Cagnoald, S. 90
,, Caian, Appdx. 276
SS. Caius and Alexander, Mch. 203
^-
-*
•J<-
33^
Index to Saints.
ss.
s.
ss.
s.
ss.
ss.
s.
ss.
ss.
s.
ss.
s.
ss,
s,
Cains and comp., O. 50
Caius and Crispus, O. 61
Caius the Palatine and comp.,
Mch. 57
Cajetan, Au. 87
Calepodius and comp., My. 1 39
Calliope, Ju. 77
Calliopius, Ap. 1 10
Callisthene and Adauclus, O.
64
Callistratus and comp., S. 385
Callixtus, Pope, O. 347
Callwen, Appdx. 288
Camillus of Lellis, Jly. 442
Camin of Iniskeltra, Mch. 458
Camerinus and comp., Au. 221
Canog, Appdx. 279
Cantius, Cantianus, and Can-
tianilla, My. 428
Canute, Jly. 264
Canute Lavard, Jan. 97
Caprasius and comp., O. 495
Caradoc, Ap. 185
Caranog, or Carantog, Appdx.
222
Carantog, My. 215
Caraunus, My. 408
Carileff, Jly. 12
Carnech, My. 214
Caron, Appdx. 193
Carpus, O. 319
Carpus and comp., Ap. 180
Carthagh of Lismore, My. 196
Casimir, Prince, Mch. 60
Cassian, Au. 130
Castor, F. 289
Castulus, Mch. 467
Castus and Secundinus, Jly. 3
Cathan, Appdx. 222
Catherine, N. 540
Catherine of Bologna, Mch.
182
Catherine of Genoa, S. 252
Catherine de Ricci, F. 295
Catherine of Sienna, Ap. 377
Catherine Audley, Appdx. 314
Cawrdaf, Appdx. 319
Ceadmon, F. 272
Ceadwalla, Appdx. 213
Cedd, Jan. 91
S. Ceitho, Appdx. 287
,, Celerina, F. 46
SS. Celerinus and comp., F. 46
S. Celestine I., Ap. 94
,, Celsus, Ap. 106
SS. Celsus and Nazarius, Jly. 593
S. Celynin, Appdx. 2S7
,, Celynin, son of Cynyr Farf-
drwch, Appdx. 310
SS. Censurinus, Quiriacus, and
comp., S. 67
S. Ceolfrid, S. 378
,, Ceolwulf, Jan. 236
,, Cerbonius, O. 228
SS Cerealis and others, Ju. 127
S. Cewydd, son of Helig, Appdx.
24s
,, Cian, Appdx. 321
Circumcision, The, Jan. I
SS. Cisellus and comp., Au. 221
S. Chad, Mch. 23
,, Chseremon, D. 235
SS. Charalampius and comp., F.
248
S. Charlemagne, Jan. 437
SS. Charitas and comp., Au. 4
S. Charitina, O. 117
B. Charles the Good, Mch. 38
S. Charles Borromeo, N. 1 1 1
,, Chelidonius, Mch. 44
SS. Chionia and comp., Ap. 34
S. Chlodulf of Metz, Ju. 82
,, Christiana, Jan. 146, D. 1S9
,, Christina of Tyre, Jly. 527
,, Christina the Wonderful, Jly.
533
,, Christopher, Jly. 553
,, Chrodegang, Mch. 96
SS. Chromatius and Tiburtius,
Au. 113
S. Chronion, F. 442
SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, O.
620
S. Chrysogonus, N. 513
,, Chrysolius, F. 189.
Circumcision, The, Jan I
SS. Chrysteta and comp., O. 649
S. Clair, N. 108
,, Clara, Au. 120
„ Clara of Rimini, F. 256
iif.-
-*
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
339
S. Claudia, Au. 82
SS. Claudiu?, Asterius, andcomp.,
Au. 238
,, Claudius and comp., F. 329
,, Claudius and Julia, Jly. 497
,, Claudius, Nicostratus, and
others, Jly. 167
S. Cledog, Au. 181
,, Cledwyn, Appdx. 287
,, Clement, N. 506, Appdx. 197
,, Clement of Alexandria, D. 23
,, Clement of Ancyra, Jan. 347
,, Cleonicus, Mch. 44
,, Cleophas, S. 374
,, Clether, Appdx. 265
,, Cletus, Ap. 343
,, Clodoald, S. 104
,, Clothilda, Ju. 23
,, Clotsendis, Ju. 486
,, Clydai, Appdx. 288
,, Clydog, Appdx. 294
,, Clydwyn, Appdx. 287
SS. Codratus and comp., Mch.
203
S. Colette, Mch. 97
,, Collen, Appdx. 223
,, Colman, Appdx. 184
,, Colman, Abtot, O. 669
,, Colman, B. of Kilruadh, O.
418
,, Colman of Austria, O. 326
,, Colman of Dromore, Ju. 71
,, Colman MacDuach, O. 709
,, Columba, Mch. 274, Ju. 90,
S. 279, N. 314, D. 411
,, Columbanus, N. 489
,, Comgall, My. 141
Commemoration of All Souls, N.
42
S. Conan, Appdx. 176
.SS. Conon and son. My. 417
S. Concord, Jan. 3
SS. Concordia and Hippolytus,
Au. 127
,, Concord ius, Zeno, and others,
S. 12
S. Congan, O. 325
,, Conlaeth, Ai)pdx. 195
,, Conrad, B. of Constance, N.
547
VOL. XVI.
SS. Constantia and comp., F. 330
S. Constantine, Mch.214, Appdx.
198
,, Constantine, Emperor, My.
314
,, Conval, Appdx. 277
Conversion of St. Paul, Jan. 370
S. Convoyon, D. 314
SS. Copres and comp., Jly. 207
S. Corbican, Ju. 373
,, Corbinian, S. 120
,, Cordula, O. 571
,, Corentin, B, of Quimper, D.
157.
,, Cornelius, Pope, S. 196
,, Cornelius of Rome, F. 314
,, Cornelius the Cent., F. 38
,, Cosmas, O. 354
SS. Cosmas and Damian, S. 397
S. Cowair, Appdx. 251
,, Creirwy, Appdx. 192
„ Crescens, Ju. 386, D. 323
SS. Crescentia and others, Ju. 207
,, Crescentianus and comp., S.
228
S. Crescentius, S. 229
,, Crewenna, Appdx. 179
SS. Crispin and Crispinian, O. 628
S. Crispina, D. 50
SS. Crispus and Caius, O. 61
S. Cristiolus, Appdx. 294
,, Cronan, Ap. 361
Cross, Apparition of the, Au. 180
Cross, The Exaltation of the, S.
233
S. Crucifix at Berytus, N. 223
Crucifixion, Memorial of, Mch.
254
SS. Ctesiphon and comp., My. 204
S. Cuby, N. 186
„ Cucuphas, Jly. 559
,, Cumine, O. 133
,, Cumine the White, Appdx.
i86
,, Cummian Fada, N. 304
,, Cunera, Ju. 154
,, Cungar, Appdx. 301
,, Cunibert, Abp. of Cologne
N. 306
,, Cuno, Ju. 6
^-
*-
-*
340
Index to Saints.
S. Curig, Appdx. 236
„ Cuthbert, Mch. 337, Appdx.
„ Cuthbert, Translation of, S- 50
„ Cuthljurga, Au. 400
,, Cuthman, F. 220
,, Cwyfan, or Cwyfen, Appdx.
230
,, Cwyllog, Appdx. 16S
,, Cybi, Appdx. 279
,, Cynbryd, Appdx. 197
„ Cynddilig, Appdx. 293
,, Cyndeus, Jly. 277
,, Cyndeyrn, Appdx. 254
,, Cynfab, Appdx. 305
,, Cynfarch, Appdx. 272
,, Cynfarwy, Appdx. 302
,, Cynfran, Appdx. 303
,, Cyngar, Appdx. 301
,, Cynhafal, Appdx. 279
,, Cynidr, Appdx. 216
,, Cynllo, Appdx. 253
,, Cynog, Appdx. 279
,, Cynwyl, Appdx. 217
,, Cyprian, S. 203
SS. Cyprian and Felix, O. 287
,, Cyprian and Justina, S. 386
,, Cyra and Marana, Au. 28
,, Cyriac and Julitla, Ju. 219
S. Cyriacus, Jan. 163, Appdx. 236
SS. Cyriacus, Largus, and Sma-
ragdus, Au. 98
S. Cyril, Jly. 205
,, Cyril, Alexandria, Jan. 418
,, Cyril of Heliopolis, Mch. 492
,, Cyril, Patr. of Jerusalem, Mch.
314
SS. Cyril and Anastasia, O. 697
,, Cyril and Methodius, Mch.
176
S. CyriUa, O. 685
,, Cyrinus, Jan. 44
,, Cyrus of Carthage, Jly. 321
SS. Cyrus, John, and others, Jan.
469
S. Cywaiir, Appdx. 251
,, Cywyllog, Appdx. 168
S. Dadas, Ap. 181
„ Dafrosa, Jan. 57
.S. Dagasus, Appdx. 265
,, Dagan, Appdx. 228
„ Dalniatius, Au. 25
,, Damasus, Pope, D. 137
„ Damian, F. 376
,, Daniel, Mch. 517, Ap. 325
,, Daniel the Stylite, D. 142
„ Daria and Chrysanthus, O.
620
„ Darlugdach, F. 22
„ Datius, Jan. 210
„ Datus, Jly. 90
„ David, Mch. 10, Ju. 372,
Appdx. 187
„ David and Romanus, S. 75
„ Declan, Jly. 532
,, Decuman, Au. 345
Dedication of the Church of our
Saviour, N. 219
S. Deghadh, Appdx. 265
,, Deicolus, Jan. 280
„ Deifer, Appdx. 193
,, Deiniol, B. of Bangor, D.
128
„ Deiniol the Carpenter, App-
dx. 273
„ Deiniol the Younger, Appdx.
313
„ Deiniolen, Appdx. 313
„ Deiniolfab, Appdx. 313
„ Delphinus, B. of Bordeaux,
D. 271
„ Demetrius, O. 165
„ Dentlin, Jly. 323
„ Deodatus, Ju. 259
„ Deogratius, Mch. 41 1
„ Derfel Gadarn, Appdx. 207
„ Deruvianus, Appdx. 221
„ Desiderius of Langres, My.
334
„ Desiderius of Vienne, My.
335
„ Deusdedit, Abp. of Canter-
bury, Jly. 357
„ Deusdedit, Pope, N. 197
„ Devinic, N. 317
„ Devota, Jan. 399
SS. Didymus and Theodora, Ap.
359
S. Digain, Appdx. 310
*-
-*
*^-
*
Index to Saints.
341
SS. Digna and Emerita, S. 328
S.
Dorotheus of Tyre, Ju. 40
S. Dihaer, Appdx. 193
SS
Dorotheus and Gorgonius, S.
,, Diheifyr, Appdx. 193
131
,, Dingad, Appdx. 287
s.
Dorothy, F. 176
,, Diomede, Au. 149
)»
Dositheus, F. 378
SS. Dionysia and comp., My. 205
»5
Drausinus, Mch. 74
,, Dionysia, Majoricus, and
)»
Droctoveus, 209
others, D. 69
M
Drogo, Ap. 217
S. Dionysius, Ap. 122
)>
Drostan, Jly. 278, Appdx. 322
,, Dionysius (Augsburg), F. 432
"
Dubricius, Appdx. 304, N.
,, Dionysius, B. of Alexandria,
327.
N. 371
l>
Dubricius, Translation of,
,, Dionysius, Pope, D. 299
Appdx. 228
,, Dionysius the Areopagite, O.
>)
Dubtach, Appdx. 280
190
>»
Dula, Mch. 457
,, Dionysius of Bulgaria, Ju.
))
Dulas, Ju. 208
385
>>
Dunawd Fawr, Appdx. 272
,, Dionysius of Caesarea, Mch.
))
Dunchad, Appdx. 201
444
>I
Dunstan, Abp., My. 276
,, Dionysius of Corinth, Mch.
J>
Duthac, Mch. 164
203
))
Dwynwen, Appdx. 175
SS. Dionysius and comp., O. 50
)»
Dyfan, Appdx. 221
,, Dionysius, or Denys, and
) »
Dyfnan, Appdx. 216
comp., 0. 195
))
Dyfnog, Appdx. 183
,, Dionysius and others, F. 212
))
Dyfrig, Translation of, Appdx.
S. Disibod, Jly. 187
228
,, Docmael, Appdx. 234
SS.
Dyfrwyr, the, Appdx. 292
„ Doewan, Appdx. 252
) J
Dymphna and Gerebern, My.
,, Dogfan, Appdx. 252
207
,, Dogmael, Appdx. 234
,, Dogwan, Appdx. 252
S.
Eadbert, My. 96
,, Domangart, Mch. 445
)}
Eadburg, Appdx. 235
,, Dominic, Au. 40
»»
Eadfrid, Appdx. 284
„ Dominica, Jly. 137
I)
Eadsin, Appdx. 2S5
,, Domitian, Jan. 136, My. 108
>»
Ealsitha, Appdx. 253
SS. Domnan and comp., Ap. 220
1»
Eanswitha, Au. 389
S. Domneva, Appdx. 309
1»
Earcongotha, F. 3S2
,, Domnina, Mch. 9, O. 285
JJ
Easterwin, Appdx. 193
SS. Domnina and comp., O. 63
»)
Eata, 0. 647
,, Domno and Domnio, 0. 703
»»
Ebba, Au. 280
S. Dona, Appdx. 293
B
Eberhardt, Ap. 1 14
,, Donald, Jly. 358
s
Ebrulfus, D. 324
SS. Donatian and comp., S. 89
J>
Edbert, Appdx. 266
,, Donatilla, Maxima, and Se-
»)
Edburga, Appdx. 233
cunda, Jly. 678
n
Edeyrn, Appdx. 168
S. Donatus, Ap. 373, Ju. 484
»
Edgar, Jly. 198
,, Donatus, B. of Fiesoli, 0.
)j
Edith of Polesworth, S. 267
575
)'
Edith of Wilton, S. 269
,, Dorbhene, O. 700
>i
Edmund, Abp. of Canterbury,
,, Dorotheus, Mch. 222
N. 349
►i.-
-*
*-
-*
342
hidex to Saints.
S. Edmund, C, Appdx. 27S
S.
Emilian, N. 347
„ Edmund, K., N. 462
SS.
Emilias and Jeremias, S. 251
„ Edmund, K. M., Appdx. 310
S.
Emma, Ju. 461
„ Edward, Mch. 324
J)
Emmeram, S. 338
., Edward the Confessor, 0. 327
M
Enda, Mch. 376
„ Edward, Translation of, ju.
)1
Engelbert, Abp. of Cologne,
281
N. 179
„ Edwen, Appdx. 297
)'
Engelmund, Ju. 291
„ Edwin, 0. 292
1)
Enghenedl. Appdx. 278
„ Eelko Liankaman, Mch. 413
J»
Englat, N. 85
„ Efflam, N. 161, Appdx. 297
)'
Ennodius, Jly. 420
„ Egbert, Ap. 327, Appdx. 309
J!
Enoder or Cynidr, Appdx.
„ Egelwin, Appdx. 318
216
„ Egwin, Jan. 160
))
Eogain of Ardstraw, All. 251
„ Eigrad, Appdx. 167
)1
Epaphras, Jly. 445
,, Einion, Appdx. 180
%^
Eparchius, Jly. 21
,, Elaeth the King, Appdx. 303
»*
Ephraem, Syrian, F. 7
„ Eldad, Appdx. 179
SS.
Epimachius and Alexander,
„ Elesbaan, 0. 659
D. 156
„ Eleutherius, F. 350, Au. 34
M
Epimachus and Gordian, My.
SS. Eleutherius and Antia, Ap.
141
223
S.
Epiphanius, My. 164
,, Eleutherius, Dionysius, and
Epiphany, The, Jan. 82
Rusticus, 0. 195
SS
Episteme and Galactio, N,
„ Eleutherius and comp., O. 14
149
S. Elfgyva, My. 254
s.
Erasmus, Ju. 20
„ Elfleda, F. 214
»)
Erastus, Jly. 570
„ Elfleda, Abbess of Rumsey,
'J
Erbin, Appdx. 170, 228
0.714
)>
Ere, B. of Slane, N. 59
„ Elfleda of Glastonbury, O. 580
)J
Erfyl, Appdx. 248
,, Elian Geimiad, Appdx. 170
n
Erick, My. 256
SS. Elias and Flavian, Jly. 99
>»
Erkonwold, Ap. 375
„ Elias and others, F. 314
)>
Erme, Appdx. 264
S. Eligius, B. of Noyon, D. 2
))
Ermel, Appdx. 264
„ Elined, Appdx. 258
J'
Ermelind, 0. 707
„ Elizabeth of Hungary, N. 415
»»
Ermenburga, Aijpdx. 309
B. Elizabeth of Hungary, My. 100
*)
Ermengytha. Appdx. 257
S. Elizabeth of Schonau, Ju. 252
»(
Ermenilda, F. 292
SS. Elizabeth and Zacharias, N.
J)
Ermine, Ap. 342
147
jj
Erminold, Jan. 86
S. EUidius, Appdx. 259
>»
Krnan, Appdx. 161, D. 237
B. Elmo, Ap. 205
»>
Eskill, Tu. 171
SS. Elpidius and comp., N. 344
»5
Ethbin," 0. 484
S. Elstan, Appdx. 208
»»
Ethelbert, F. 406, My. 308
SS. Elvan and Mydwyn, Jan. 5
»)
Elhelburga, Jly. 169, O. 2S1
S. Elwyn, 0. 658
')
Etheldreda, 0. 440
„ Elzear, S. 402
?»
Etheldritha, Au. 19
SS. Emerita and Digna, S. 328
1»
Etheldwitha, Appdx. 253
„ Emetherius and Chelidonius,
11
Ethelgiva, Appdx. 321
Mch. 44
t»
Ethelhard, Appdx. 221
*-
-*
*-
-^
Index to Saints.
343
S. Ethelnoth, Appdx. 286
SS. Ethelred and lithelbert, O.
438
S. Ethelwin, Appdx. 219
„ Ethelwokl, F. 283, Mch. 441
,, Ethehvold, B. of Winchester,
Au. 8
„ Etto, Jly. 261
„ Eubulus, F. 449, Mch. 114
„ Eucher, F. 355
„ Eucherius, B. of Lyons, N.
, 345.
,, Eudocia, Mch. 2
SS. Eudoxius, Zeno, and com p.,
S. 68
S. Eugenius of Carthage, Jly.
310
SS. Eugraphius and comp., D.
125
S. Eulalia, F. 276
SS. Eulalia and Julia, D. 124
,, Eulampius and Eulampia, O.
225
S. Eulogius, Jan. 312, Mch. 21S,
Jly. 90, S. 189
„ Euphemia, S. 257
„ Euphrasia, Mch. 24I
„ Euphrosyne, F. 264
„ Euplius, Au. 116
„ Eupsychius, Ap. 130, S. 96
„ Eurfyl, Appdx. 248
„ Eurgain, Appdx. 244
SS. Eusanius and comp., 206
S. Eusebia, Mch. 279, O. 703
„ Eusebius, F. 306
„ Eusebius, B. of Vercelli, D.
191
„ Eusebius of Csesarea, Ju. 2S2
„ Eusebius of Samo.sata, Ju. 285
SS. Eusebius, Nestabo, and comp.,
S. 118
S. Eustace, Mch. 498
,, Eustathius, Jly. 399
SS. Eustathius and comp., S. 319
S. Eustochium, S. 411
„ Eustorgius, S. 292
„ Euthymius, Jan. 305, Mch.
216
„ Eutropius, Jan. 163, Mch. 44,
Ap. 370
S. Eutyches, Au. 261
SS. Eutyches and comp., Ap. 199
S. Eutychianus, Pope, D. no
S.S. Eutychius and comp., O. 120
S. Eval, or Evall, Appd.x. 310
Evaristus, Pope, O. 643
Everilda, Jly. 2IO
Evermar, My. 24
Evermund, Ju. 132
,, Evodius, My. 93
SS. Ewalds, The two, O. 55
Exaltation of the Cross, I'he, S.
233
Expectation of the Confinement
of our Lady, D. 218
S. Exuperius, S. 410
S. Fabian, Jan. 299
,, Fachnan, Au. 140
SS. Facundus and Primitivus, N.
562
„ Failbhe, O. 134
„ P'ailbhc, L, Appdx. 197
„ Failbhe the Little, Appdx.
194
„ Faith, O. 132
„ Fara, D. 105
„ Faro, B. of Meaux, O. 698
SS. Faustinus, Beatrix, and Sim-
plicius, Jly. 631
„ Faustinus and Jovita, Y. 305
S. Fauslus, N. 412
„ Faustus, B. of Riez, S. 413
SS. Faustus and others of Alex-
andria, O. 50
„ Faustus and others of Cordova,
0.321
S. Febronia, Ju. 343
„ Fechin, Jan. 310
,, Fedlimid, Au. 106
SS. Felician and Primus, Ju. 87
„ Felicissimus and Rogatianus,
O. 644
S. Felicitas, Mch. 102
SS. Felicitas and her sons, Jly.
251
.S. Felicula, Ju. 176
SS. Felinus and Gratiaii, Ju. i
S. P'elix, Jan. 199, Mch. 163,
Au. 5, N. 159
-fb
*-
-^
344
Index to Saints.
S. Felix II., Pope, Jly. 631
„ Felix of Cantalice, My. 258
„ Felix of Spalato, My. 253
„ Felix of Sutri, Ju. 307
„ Felix of Tubzacene, O. 601
„ Felix of Valois, N. 485
SS. Felix and Adauctus, An. 383
„ Felix, Andochius, and Thyr-
sus, S. 361
„ Felix and comp., Ap. 300,
Jly. 256
,, Felix and Cyprian, O. 287
„ Felix and Fortunatus, Ju. 143
„ Felix and Maurus, Ju. 221
„ Felix, Nemesianus, and comp.,
S. 144
„ Felix and Regula, S. 169
S. Ferdinand III., K., My. 421
„ Fergna the White, Appdx.
188
„ Fergus, N. 395
„ Ferreolus, S. 289
,, Ffagan, Appdx. 259
„ Ffinan, Appdx. 322
„ Fflewyn, Appdx. 321
„ Fiacre, Au. 384
SS. Fides, Spes, Charitas, and
Sapientia, Au, 4
S. Fidelis, O. 696
„ Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Apr.
332
„ Fidolus, My. 216
,, Fiech, O. 290
,, Fillan, Jan. 127
„ Fina, Mch. 239
„ Finan, F. 325
„ Finan, or Finian, the Leper,
Appdx. 196
„ Finbar, S. 377
SS. Fingar and Piala, Mch. 437,
Appdx. 198
S. Finian, Appdx. 272
„ Finnian, Mch. 321
„ Finnian, B. of Clonard, D.
159
„ Fintan, F. 324
„ Fintan Munnu, O. 556
„ Firmilian, B. of Caesarea, O.
686
„ Firminus, S. 4
S. Firminus, Martyr, S. 375
„ Flannan, B. of Killaloe, D.
221
„ Flavia Domitilla, My. 106
SS. Flavia Domitilla and comp..
My. 158
S. Flavian, F. 331, D. 236
SS. Flavian and Elias, Jly. 99
,, Flora, and Mary, N. 525
S. Floregius, Jly. 8
„ Florentia, Ju. 279, D. i
„ Florentius, O. 322
„ Florus, B. of Lodeve, N. 65
,, Foillan, O. 721
„ Forannan, Ap. 376
„ Fortchern, F. 321
„ Fortunatus, F. 47, O. 353
SS. Fortunatus and comp., Ap.
300
,, Fortunatus and Felix, Ju. 143
„ Forty-five Martyrs of Nico-
polis, Jly. 257
„ Forty Martyrs of Sebaste,
Mch. 204
S. Fothadh II., Appdx. 179
SS. Four Martyrs of Gerona, Ju.
78
S. Frances of Rome, Mch. 185
„ Francis of Assisi, O. 68
„ Francis of Girolamo, My. 156
,, Francis of Paula, Ap. 25
„ Francis of Sales, Jan. 443
„ Francis Borgia, O. 249
„ Francis Caracciolo, Ju. 37
„ Francis Solano, Jly. 541
„ Francis Xavier, N. 602
„ Frederick, Jly. 437
„ Frederick of Liege, My. 405
., Fremund, My. 154
„ Frideswide, O. 484
„ Fridolin, Mch. 91
„ Frigidian, Mch. 321
,, Frithebert, Appdx. 323
„ Frithestan, Appdx. 273
„ Frodobert, Jan. 112
„ Fronto, Ap. 187
,, P'ronto, B. of Perigneux, O.
631
„ Fructuosus, Jan. 312, Ap. 211
„ Frumentius, O. 650
*-
-*
S. Fulcran, F. 294
„ Fulgentius, Jan. 10
„ Fulk, B. of Toulouse, D. 291
„ Fulquinus, B. of Therouanne,
D. 187
,, Fursey, Jan. 243
SS. Fusca and Maura, F. 286
„ Fuscianus and comp., D. 136
SS. Fyneana and Findocha, O.
324
S. Gabinius, F. 340
„ Gabriel, Archangel, Mch. 312
SS. Gaiane, Rhipsime, and others,
S.437
,, Galactic and Episteme, N.
149
S. Gall, Jly. 17, O. 419
„ Galla, O. 125
„ Gallgo, Appd.x. 316
„ Gatian, B. of Tours, D. 219
„ Gaudentius, Jan. 334
„ Gaudentius, B. of Brescia, O.
63s
„ Gelasius, Actor at Heliopolis,
F. 443
,, Gelasius, Boy, F. 83
„ Gelasius, Pope, N. 487
SS. Geminianus and Lucia, S.
259
S. Gemma, Ju. 270
„ Genebald of Laon, S. 70
„ Genes, M. at Aries, Au. 270
„ Genes, M. at Rome, Au. 267
„ Gengulf, My. 151
„ Genoveva, Jan. 46
SS. Gcntianus and comp., D. 136
S. Genulph, Jan. 247
„ George, Ap. 301
„ George of Amastris, F. 363
„ Georgia, F. 306
„ Geraint of Gerontius, Appdx.
260
„ Gerald, Ap. 74
„ Gerald, B. of Beziers, N. 157
B. Gerard, Ju. 179, My. 187
S. Gerard, O. 57
„ Gerasimus, Mch. 63
SS. Gerebern and Dymphna, My.
207
S. Geremar, S. 362
SS. Gereon and comp., O. 224
S. GerLich, Jan. 81
„ Germaine Cousin, Ju. 216
„ Germain of Man, J ly. 97
,, Germain of Paris, My. 412
SS. German and Randoald, F.
361
S. Germanicus, Jan. 284
„ Germanusof Auxerre, Jly. 681
,, Germanus of Constantinople,
My. 174
„ Germoc or Germoe, Appdx.
240
„ Germock, O. 658
„ Gernad, N. 201
„ Ceroid, A p. 228
„ Gertrude, Mch. 306
„ Gertrude, N. 342
„ Gertrude of Plamage, D. 70
„ Gerulf, S. 326
SS. Gervasius and Protasius, Ju.
256
„ Getulius, Cerealis, and others,
Ju. 127
S. Gliislain, O. 211
„ Gibrian, My. 1 14
„ Gilbert, F. 99
,, Gilbert of Auvergne, Ju. 67
„ Gilbert of Caithness, Ap. 10
SS. Gilbert and Alkmund, S. 109
S. Gildas, Jan. 440
„ Giles, S. 8
,, Gistlian, Appdx. 191
B. Gizar of Skalholt, My. 413
S. Glodesind, Jly. 562
„ Gluvias or Glywys, Appdx.
219
,, Glyceria, My. iSi
„ Goar, Jly. 154
,, Goban, Ju. 280
,, Gobrian, N. 346
,, Godebertha, Ap. 163
„ Godelieva, Jly. 160
,, Godfrid, B. of Amiens, N.
203
„ Godrick, My. 322
„ Goeznou, O. 639
„ Gofor, Appdx. 220
„ Golinduc, Jly. 316
*-
-*
►;i-
346
Index to Saints.
s.
Golvven, Jly. 26
S. Gunifortis, Au. 235
>»
Gonsalvo, Jan. 142
SS. Gurias and comp., N. 334
ss.
Gordian and Epimachus, My.
S. Guron, or Goroai, Appdx. 210
141
,, Gurwal, Appdx. 230
?»
Gordian, Macrobius, and
„ Gurwall, Ju. 56
comp., S. 1 85
„ Guthagon, Jly. 97
s.
Gordius, Jan. 42
„ Guthlac, Ap. 163
n
Gorgo, Mch. 212
„ Gwensl, N. 67
')
Gorgonia, D. 117
„ Gwen of Cornwall, Appdx.
»i
Gorgonius, Mch. 222
282
ss.
Gorgonius and Dorotheus, S.
„ Gwen of Wales, Appdx. 282
131
SS. Gwendoline and Brothen, O.
B.
Gotfried, Jan. 194
476
S.
Gothard of Hildesheim, My.
S. Gwenfaen, Appdx. 296
73
„ Gwenfyl, Appdx. 288
))
Gotteschalk, Ju. 73
„ Gwenog, Appdx. 165
»»
Gorwst, Appdx. 318
„ Gwerir, Ap. 71
SS.
Grace and Probus, Appdx. 208
„ Gwerir, or Guier, Appdx. 207
s.
Grata, S. 48
„ Gwethenoc, Appdx. 192
ss.
Gratia and comp., Au. 226
„ Gwodioew, Appdx. 211
)>
Gratian and Felinus, Ju. I
„ Gwrnerth, Appdx. 2iO
s.
Gredifael, Appdx. 304
„ Gwryd, Appdx. 293
J)
Gregory, Ab. of Einsiedeln,
„ Gwymer, or Wymer, O. 659
N. 202
„ Gwynan, Appdx. 322
))
Gregory, B. of Tours, N. 381
.SS. Gwyn and comp., 287
»t
Gregory II., Pope, F. 293
S. Gwynhoedl, or Gwynodl,
')
Gregory III., Pope, N. 579
Appdx. 159
))
Gregory VII., Pope, My. 350
„ Gwynlleu, Appdx. 28S
»1
Gregory of Langres, Jan. 58
„ Gwynno, Appdx. 287
1»
Gregory of Nyssa, ]\Ich. 172
„ Gwynnog, Appdx. 284
)1
Gregory of Spoleto, D. 270
,, Gwynnoro, Appdx. 2S7
n
Gregory the Great, Mch. 226
SS. Gwynoc and Aneurin, 0. 646
j;
Gregory the Illuminator, S.
S. Gwynws, Appdx. 322
442
„ Gwythian, 0. 659
)»
Gregory the Wonder-Worker,
N. 375
S. Habakkuk, Jan. 2S5
))
Gregory Nazianzen, My. 125
„ Hadelin, F. 49
SS
Gregory, Julian, Mary, and
„ Hallvard, My. 202
comp., Au. 107
„ Harold Bluetooth, N. 28
s
Grimbald, Jly. 197
„ Hedda, Jly. 169
M
Grwst, Appdx. 318
„ Hedwig, 0. 456
ss
Guardian Angels, O. 14
,, Hegesippus, Ap. iio
s.
Gudula, Jan. 115
„ Heimerad, Ju. 417
n
Gudwall, Ju. 57
„ Helena, Jly. 698
)»
Guido, S. iSi
„ Helena, Empress, Au. 164
i)
Guinock, Appdx. 211
„ Heliconis, My. 407
1}
Gummar, O. 284
„ Helier, Jly. 403
»»
Gundebert, Ap. 364
„ Heliodorus, Jly. 94
»l
Gundleus, or Gwynllyw Filwr,
„ Henrj', Jan. 245
Appdx. 202
„ Henry, Emp., Jly. 370
*-
-*
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
347
s.
Herculanus, N. 169
S.
Humbert, Mch. 458
)»
Heribert, Mch. 281
11
Hyacinth, Au. 151
ss.
Herlembald and Ariald, Ju.
))
Hyacinth of Amastris, Jly. 412
389
n
Hyacinth of Caesarea, Jly. 89
s.
Hermagoras, Jly. 283
SS.
Hyacinth and Protus, S. 166
B.
Herman Joseph, Ap. 116
s.
Hyacintha, Jan. 466
s.
Hennas, My. 124
»»
Hychan, Appdx. 259
ss.
Hermas and comp., Ap. 121
»J
Hydroc, Appdx. 220
s.
Hermenigild, Ap. 183
11
Hyginus, Jan. 149
JJ
Hermias, My. 428
11
Hymelin, Mch. 210
)1
Hermione, S. 43
,,
Hypatius, N. 326
ss.
Hermogenes and comp., D.
ss.
Ilypatius and comp., Ju. 250
125
s.
Hywyn, Appdx. 167
»»
Hermylus and Stratonicus,
Jan. 179
ss.
Ia and Breaca, 0. 657
s.
Hero, 0. 437
1»
la and others, Au. 36
ss.
Herodian and comp., K\i. 121
s.
Ibar, Ap. 310
s.
Herve, Ju. 239
Ida, S. 50
ss.
Hesperius and Zoe, My. 28
Idda of Toggenburg, N. 96
s.
Hesychius, Mch. 1, O. 51
Idloes, Appdx. 271
n
Hilarion, O. 506
Iduberga, My. 116
»t
Hilarus, Pope, S. 1 57
Ignatius, Africa, F. 46
n
Hilary, Jan. 182
Ignatius, Antioch, F. I
)»
Hilary of Aries, My. 75
Ignatius Azevedo, Jly. 379
ss.
Hilary and comp., Mch. 271
Ignatius Loyola, Jly. 708
s.
Hilda, N. 390
lidefonsus, B. of Toledo, D.
I»
Hildegard, Ap. 375, S. 279
306
)}
Hildegund, Ap. 254
Illog, Appdx. 259
J)
Hildelitha, Mch. 446
Iltut or Illtyd, Appdx. 249
>)
Hildulf, Jly. 278
Im
maculate Conception of B. V.
1»
Hippolytus, B. of Porto, Au.
Mary, D. 108
233
S.
Ina, F. 1 86
ss.
Hippolytus and Concordia,
SS
Indract and comp., F. 140
Au. 127
11
Indract and company, Appdx.
Holy House of Loreto, D. 129
220
S.
Honestus, F. 313
11
Injuriosus and Scholaslica,
)»
Honoratus, Jan. 240
My. 344
))
Honorina, F. 444
s.
Innocent I., Pope, Jly. 598
Honorius, Abp. of Canterbury.
11
Innocent of Le Mans, Ju. 258
S. 464
Ho
ly Innocents, D. 311
A
Hormisdas, M., Au. 99
Invention of the Cross, My. 56
))
Hormisdas, Pope, Au. 78
S.
Irenseus, Mch. 457
,,
lirabanus, Maurus, F. 91
,,
Irenseus of Lyons, Ju. 407
1*
Hrosnata, Jly. 325
SS
Irenseus and Abundius, Au.
't
Hubert, B. of Liege, N. 72
314
n
Hugh of Cluny, Ap. 365
•i'i
Irenaeus and Mustiola, Jly.
))
Hugh of Grenoble, Ap. 7
91
n
Hugh of Lincoln, Jly. 592,
s
Irene, O. 499
N. 395
11
Irene, Enii)ress, Au. 134
B
Hugo, Mch. 502
s.s.
Irene and comp., Ap. 34
*-
*-
348
Index to Saints.
B. Irmgard, S. 51
SS. Irmina and Adela, D. 274
S. Isaias, F. 314
„ Isberga, My. 320
„ Ischyrion, D. 235
„ Isidora, My. 10
„ Isidore, Jan. 228, F. 84, My.
146
„ Isidore of Seville, Ap. 64
„ Ismael, Appdx. 235
SS. Ismael and others, Ju. 234
S. Isserninus, Appdx. 316, 31S
,, Ita or Ytha, Appdx. 171
„ Ithaniar of Rochester, Ju. 133
„ Itta, My. 116
„ Ivan, Ju. 337
„ Ivo, B. of Chartres, D. 241
S. Jacob of Toul, Ju. 309
SS. Jacut, Gwenthenoc, and
Creirwy, Appdx. 192
S. Jambert, Appdx. 263
„ James, Deacon, Au. 160, O.
476
B. James de la Marca, N. 5S6
S. James of Nisibis, Jly. 351
„ James (Tarantaise), Jan. 242
„ James the Great, Jly. 546
„ James the Less, My. 5
„ James the Penitent, Jan. 433
„ James Intercisus, N. 566
SS. James and comp., Ap. 371
„ Januarius and comp., Jly. 256,
S. 301, O. 321
S. Jarlath, B. of Tuam, D. 305
„ Jason, Ju. 341
„ Jeanne Francoise de Chantal,
D. 176
,, Jeremias, F. 314
SS. Jeremias and Emilias, S. 251
S. Jerome, S. 450
„ Jerome Emiliani, Jly. 493
Jesuit Martyrs in Canada, The,
Jly- 733
S. Joachim, Mch. 336
„ Joan of Valois, F. 109
„ Joannicus, N. 109
„ Joavan, Mch. 22, Appdx. 1S8
„ John, B. of Bergamo, O. 705
„ John I., Pope, My. 395
S.John de Britto, F. 112
„ John of Beverley, My. 109
„ John of Bridlington, O. 248
„ John of Chinon, Ju. 388
„ John of Civita-di-Penne, Mch.
329
„ John of Egypt, Mch. 484
„ John of God, Mch. 165
„ John of Holar, Ap. 313
„ John of Matha, F. 226
„ John of Nepomuk, My. 227
„ John of Nicomedia, S. 97
„ John of Rome, Ju. 309
,, John of Sagahun, Ju. 172
,, John of Therouanne, Jan. 415
,, John of the Cross, N. 526
,, John of the Goths, Ju. 374
„ John of the Grate, F. 26
,, John the Almsgiver, Jan. 34S
„ John the Baptist, Nativity of,
Ju- 323
„ John the Calybite, Jan. 233
„ John the Divine, D. 307 „
„ John the Dwarf, N. 219
„ John the Silentiary, My. 1S5
„ John Cantius, O. 503
,, John Capistran, O. 582
„ John Cassian, Jly. 521
„ John Chrysostom, Jan. 400
,, John Climacus, Mch. 506
„ John Columbino, Jly. 700
„ John Damascene, My. 96
,, John Francis Regis, Ju. 225
,, John Gualberto, Jly. 290
„ John-Joseph, Mch. 87
„ John Mark, S. 395
„ John William, F. 255
SS. John, Abundius, and comp.,
S. 261
„ John and Paul, Ju. 366
S. Jonas, Abp. of Novgorod, N.
158
„ Jonas the Gardener, F. 263
SS. Jonas and Barachisius, Mch.
491
„ Josaphat and Barlaam, N. 562
S. Joseph, Count, Jly. 511
„ Joseph, husband of B.V. Mary,
Mch. 327
„ Josephof Arimathea, Mch. 283
*-
■^
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
349
S. Joseph of Cupertino, S. 292
„ Joseph of Leonissa, F. 1 1 1
„ Joseph the Hymnogiapher,
A p. 48
„ Joseph Barsabas, Jly. 4S4
„ Jovita, F. 305
„ Judas, or Quiriacus, My. 64
„ Jude, Ap., O. 674
SS. Judith and Salome, Ju. 455
S. Judoc, D. 173
„ Julia, O. 283, My. 332
SS. Julia and Claudius, Jly. 497
S. Julia and Eulalia, D. 124
„ Julian, S. 185
„ Julian, Alexandria, F. 442
„ Julian in Africa, F. 395
„ Julian of Anazarbus, Mch.
273
„ Julian of Caesarea, F. 320
„ Julian of Le Mans, Jan. 398
,, Julian Sabas, O. 473
SS. Julian and Csesarius, N. 10
,, Julian and comp., Au. 107,
Jan. 121
S. Juliana, F. 316, Ap. 76
„ Juliana Falconieri, Ju. 267
„ Julitta, Jly. 679
SS. Julitta and Cyriac, Ju. 219
S.Julius, My. 394, Au. 175
„ Julius I., Pope, Ap. 176
SS. Juliu> and Aaron, Appdx. 245,
Jly- 1
S. Junian, O. 417
,, Jurmin, Appdx. 1S6
,, Just, Appdx. 264
,, Justin, Apologist, Ap. 177
„ Justina, O. 152, Jan. 133
SS. Justina and Aureus, Ju. 221
„ Justina and Cyprian, S. 386
S. Justinian, Au. 250, Appdx.
320
„ Justus, N. 564, Appdx. 303
„ Justus, Abp. of Canterbury,
N. 232
,, Justus, Boy, O. 471
„ Jutwara, or Jutwell, Appdx.
252
SS. Juventine and Maximus, Jan.
S Juventius, F. 211
SS.
S.
s.
SS,
SS,
s.
SS,
Katherine of Sweden, Mch.
421
Katherine Audley, Appdx. 314
Kay, Appdx. 294
Kea, Appdx. 294
Kellach, My. 21
Kenan, Appdx. 294, N. 153
Kenelni, Jly. 427
Keneth, Au. 6
Kennera, O. 713
Kennocha, Mch. 255
Kennotha, or Kevoca, Appdx.
195
Kenny, O. 278
Kenligern, Jan. 1S7
Kentigierna, Appdx. 169
Kessog, Mch. 20S
Kevern, Appdx. 305
Kevin, Ju. 27
Keyne, O. 178
Kiara, O. 429
Kieran, Appdx. 192, Mch. 66
Kieranof Clanrnacnois, S. 132
Kigwoe, or Kywa, Appdx. 180
Kilian, Jly. 188
Kunegund, Mcli. 52
Kyneburga and comp., Mch. 93
Kyneswitha, Mch. 93
Lactean, Mch. 331
Ladislas, Ju. 400
Lactus, Donatian, and others,
S. 89
Lsetus and Vincent, S. 4
Lambert, S. 274
Landelin, Ju. 212
Landoald,"Mch. 333
I^andrada, Jly. 191
Largus and comp., Au. 98
Laserian, Ap. 224
Launomar, Jan. 287
Laurence, Au. 109
Laurence, Cant., F. 39
Laurence Justiniani, S. 76,
Jan. 119
Laurence O'Toole, N. 328
Laurence, the Illuminator, F.
49
Laurence and Peregrinus, Ju.
22
*-
^-
-*
350
Index to Saints.
s.
Laurentinus, F. 46
S.
Lolan, S. 340
)f
Lazarus, D. 204
SS.
Loman and Fortchern, F. 321
I>
Lazarus, B. of Milan, F. 264
S.
Lonf^inus, Mch. 2Jf6
)J
Lazarus, Constantinople, F.
»>
Louis, Au. 284
3S6
J1
Louis, B. of Toulouse, Au.
J1
Leander, F. 445
185
))
Leliuinus, N. 307
))
Louis Bertrand, O. 213
)]
Leo, Archb. of Rouen, Mch.
»J
Louthiern, 0. 438
19
»>
Lubin, Mch. 257
))
Leo IL, Pope, Ju. 413
M
Lubentius, O. 322
))
Leo IIL, Pope, Ju. 156
SS.
Luceja and Aucejas, Ju. 342
'1
Leo IV., Pope, Jly. 428
»1
Lucia and Geminianus, S. 259
;i
Leo IX., Ap. 233
s.
Lucian of Antioch, Jan. 88
))
Leo the Great, Ap. 137
»»
Lucian of Beauvais, Jan. 99
M
Leobard, Jan. 278
SS.
Lucian and Marcian, O. 644
1»
Leocadia, D. 115
»)
Lucian and others, Jly. 166
IJ
Leodegar, or Leger, O. 19
n
Lucilla and Nemesius, O. 725
I)
Leonard of Limoges, N. 159
S.
Lucina, Ju. 462
»i
Leonard of Porto-Maurizio,
»»
Lucius, D. 13, F. 395, Mch.
N.549
55
}1
Leonard of Reresby, N. 166
SS.
Lucius and Ptolemsus, 0.
*j
Leonore, Appdx. 246, Jly. 23
478
SS.
Leontius and comp., Ju. 250
S.
Lucy, D. 168
s.
Leopold, N. 340
))
Ludmilla, S. 265
M
Leudomer, O. 15
»
Ludger, Mch. 469
M
Leutfried, Ju. 290
>I
Ludwig, Ap. 38 1
JJ
Levan, O. 658, D. 273
IJ
Luke, Evan, O. 467
)»
Levan or Levin, Appdx. 231
)J
Lullus, Abp. of Alainz, 0.
)»
Lewina, Appdx. 254
434
SS
Liberatus, Boniface, and
»
Luperculus, Ju. 410
comp., Au. 159
)J
Lupicinus, Mch. 371
s.
Liberius I., B. of Ravenna,
))
Lupus, Jly. 635
D. 404
'J
Lupus, Abp. of Sens, S. 5
)*
Liberius, Pope, S. 351
n
Lupus of Chalons, Jan. 413
)»
Liborius, Jly. 521
SS
Luxorius, Cisellus, and Came-
»1
Licinius, F. 292
rinus, Au. 221
»^
Lidwyna, Ap. 189
s.
Lydia, Mch. 482, Au. 24
)1
Liebert, Jly. 324
n
Lietbert of Cambrai, Ju. 310
s.
Mabenna, Appdx. 276
))
Limnaeus, F. 367
))
Mabyn, Appdx. 276
))
Linus, Pope, S. 349
I)
Macarius, Mch. 208, D. 109,
»
Lioba, S. 417
Ju. 271
)i
Livinus, N. 300
1)
Macarius of Antioch, Ap. 133
)i
Llechid, Appdx. 319
»
Macarius, Alexandria, Jan. 28
n
Lleuddad, Appdx. 172
}f
Macarius, Egypt, Jan. 221
n
Llibio, Appdx. 187
)'
Maccald, or Maughold, Ap.
)>
Lhvchaiarn, Appdx. 169
338
SS
Llywelyn and Gvkrnerth,
>1
Maccallin, O. 139
Appdx. 210
f»
Maccarthen, Au. 148
s
Lo, S. 337
II
Macedonius, Jan. 362
>-s-
*-
Index to Saints.
351
ss.
Macedonius, Theodulus, and
S.
Marcellinus of Carthace, Ap.
Tatian, S. 179
89
s.
Machan, Appdx. 277
))
Marcellinus of Embrun, Ap.
»)
Machar, N. 315
251 .
M
Machraith, Appdx. 161
SS
Marcellinus and Marcus, Ju.
»»
Machudd, Appdx. 305
251
))
Maclovius, or Malo, N. 336
*»
Marcellinus and comp., Ju. 19
))
Macniss, S. 36
S.
Marcellus, Jan. 238, S. 44,
J'
Macra, Jan. 85, Ju. 146
0.719
»t
Macrina, Jan. 202, Jly. 446
»)
Marcellus, Bp., Au. 137
ss.
Macrobius, Gordian, and
'>^
Marcellus, B. of Paris, N. 23
comp., S. 185
SS.
Marcellus and Apuleius, O.
s.
Macwoloc, Appdx. 176
154
)J
Madelberta, S. 109
Jl
Marcellus, Mammsea, and
1)
Madern, My. 239
comp., Au. 328
J»
Mael, or Mahail, Appdx. 221
s.
Marchell, Appdx. 271
ss.
Mael and others, F. 178
J»
Marcian, Jan. 134, N. 54
s.
Maelog, Appdx. 326
11
Marciana, Jan. 120
?J
Maelrubh, Appdx. 215
ss.
Marcian, Abundius, and
)»
Maelrubha, Au. 346
comp., S. 261
»»
Maelrys, Appdx. 159
)J
Marcian and Lucian, 0. 644
>»
Maen, or Meven, Ju. 288
)»
Marcian and Nicander, Ju. 231
»»
Maethlu, Appdx. 325
»»
Marcian, Nicander, and comp..
))
Maglorius, B. of Del, 0. 616
J"-39
»)
Magnoald, S. 94
s.
Marculf, My. 15
)»
Magnobod, B. of Angers, O.
ss.
Marcus and Marcellinus, Ju.
428
251
1*
Magnus, Ap. 211, Au. 176
s.
Mares, Jan. 374
Jl
Maildulf, or Maidulf, Appdx.
))
Margaret, Jly. 485, Ju. 136,
213
0. 642
*»
Majolus, My. 154
B.
Margaret-Mary Alacoque, O.
ss.
Majoricus and others, D. 69
465
s.
Malachy, Abp. of Armagh,
»»
Margaret of Colonna, D. 409
N. 85
s.
Margaret of Cortona, F. 371
)»
Malchion, O. 695
B.
Margaret of Louvain, S. 17
)»
Malchus, 0. 530
ss.
Marian, James, and comp..
n
Malchus, B. of Lismore, Au.
Ap. 371
112
s.
Mariamne, F. 318
»»
Malo, Appdx. 304
B.
Marianna of Jesus, My. 392
))
Mamertius, My. 150
s.
Marina, Jly. 424
*»
Mammas, Au. 158
s.
Marinus, D. 300, Au. loi
»i
Manaccus, Appdx. 281
)'
Marin us, Deac, S. 46
*)
Mansuetus, S. 35, F. 341
S.S.
Marinus and Asterius, Mch.
ss.
Manuel, Sabiel, and Ismael,
42
Ju- 234
»
Marinus and comp., Jly. 256
»*
Marana and Cyra, Au. 28
»»
Maris and others, Jan. 285
s.
Marcella, Appdx. 271, Jan.
S.
Marius, B. of Avenches, D.
470
425
J)
Marcellina, Jly. 412
11
Mark, B. of Jerusalem, O.
»'
Marcellinus, Pope, Ap. 345
564
^-
*-
-*
352
Index to Saints.
S. Mark, Evang., Ap. 334
„ Mark of Arethusa, Mch. 492
,, Mark of Lucera, Ju. 191
„ Marnan or Marnock, Appdx.
18S
,, Marnoc or Marnan, Appdx.
2S3
„ Marnock, O. 639
SS. Maro and comp., Ap. 199
S. Marrha, Jan. 285, F. 373, Jly.
611
„ Martial of Limoges, Ju. 463
SS. Martialis and comp., O. 321
S. Martian, F. 289
„ Martin, B. of Tours, N. 241
„ Martin, Pope, N. 293
„ Martin, Ab. of Verton, O.
618
SS. Martinian and comp., O. 416
,, Martyrius and comp., My.
418
,, Martyrs at Alexandria, F.
449
„ Martyrs at Lichfield, Jan. 28
„ Martyrs at Nicomedia, D. 277
„ Martyrs in Arabia, F. 367
„ Martyrs in Canada, Jly. 733
„ Martyrs in the Thebaid, Jan.
65, Jly- 598
„ Martyrs in the Serapion, Mch.
284
„ Martyrs of Africa, Ap. 73
„ Martyrs of Alexandria, My.
181
„ Martyrs of Ebbecksdorf, F.
45
„ Martyrs of Gorkum, Jly. 212
„ Martyrs of Japan, F. 141
„ Martyrs of Nicopolis. Jly. 257
,, Martyrs of Nismes, My. 312
„ Martyrs of Sandomir, Ju. 21
,, Martyrs of Saragossa, Ap.
208
„ Martyrs of Sebaste, Mch. 256
„ Martyrs under Alexander,
Mch. 21
„ Martyrs under Nero, Mch.
256, Ju. 334
„ Martyrs under the Lombards,
Mch. 23
S. Maruanus, O. 658
B.V. Mary, Immaculate Con-
ception of the, D. 108
B.V. Mary, Presentation of,
N. 486
B.V. Mar}', Visitation of the,
Jly- 32
S. Mary, B.V., Purification of,
F. 34 .
B. Mary d'Oignies, Ju. 319
S. Mary of Rome, N. 18
„ Mary of the Snows, Au. 62
„ Mary, the Mother of Mark,
Ju- 454
„ Mary the Sorrowful, Ju. 254
„ Mary, wife of Cleopas, Ap.
124
„ Mary Magdalen, Jly. 503, 611
„ Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, My.
3«i
SS. Mary and Flora, N. 525
„ Mary and comp., Au. 107
„ Mary of Egypt and Zosimus,
Ap. 15
S. Materiana, Appdx. 210
„ Maternus, B. of Treves, S.
230
„ Mathernus or Madron, Appdx.
222
„ Mathilda, Mch. 260
„ Matrona, Mch. 26S
„ Matthew, Ap. Evang., S. 323
„ Matthew of Beauvais, Mch.
488
„ Matthias, Ap. F. 393
,, Maudez, N. 402, Appdx. 306
,, Maughan, Appdx. 277
,, Maura, F. 286
.SS. Maura and Baya, N. 60
„ Maura and Bridget, Jly. 306
„ Maurice and comp., F. 358,
S. 329
S. Maurilius, S. 186
,, Maurontius, My. 78
,, Maurus, Jan. 234
SS. Maurus and Felix, Ju. 221
S. Mawes, Appdx. 306
,, Mawgan or Meugant, Appdx.
277
,, Maxellend, N. 318
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
353
s.
Maxentia, N. 461
SS.
Memorius and comp., S. 103
)1
Maxentius, Ju. 371
>)
Menas, Hermogenes, and
) )
Maxima of Nicomedia, Mch.
Eugraphius, D. 125
222
S.
Mengold, F. 220
) J
Maxima of Sermium, Mch.
55
Menna, O. 52
467
J)
Mennas, N. 239
ss.
Maxima, Donatilla, and Se-
)>
Mennas, Patr. of Constanti-
cunda, Jly. 678
nople, Au. 271
s.
Maximian, F. 369, 0. 54
SS.
Menodora, Matrodora, Nym-
) >
Maximinus, Ab. of Miscy, D.
phodora, S. 145
198
s.
Mercurius, N. 540
>»
Maximus, F. 329, Jan. 371
))
Merewenna, V. Rumsey,
i J
Maximus, B. of Mixy, D. 198
Appdx. 221
) J
Maximus, B. of Riez, N. 569
99
Merewenna, V. Marham
>»
Maximus of Aix, Ju. 77
Church, Appdx. 263
)>
Maximus of Ephesus, Ap. 369
))
Meriadoc, Appdx. 231
))
Maximus of Jerusalem, My.
)l
Merin or Meiryn, Appdx. 167
74
n
Methodius, S. 291, Mch. 176
))
Maximus of Rome, N. 412
»
Methodius, Patr. of Constanti-
?5
Maximus of Turin, Ju. 353
nople, Ju. 204
SS.
Maximus and Olympias, Ap.
)i
Metrophanes, Ju. 33
200
n
Meugant, Appdx. 277
»»
Maximus and Venerandus,
)t
Mevan, Appdx. 238
My. 343
SS.
Michael and All Angels, S.
»J
Maximus, Quintilian, and
428
comp, Ap. 181
S.
Michael, Apparition of, My.
}}
Maximus, Theodotus, and
"5
Asclepiodotus, S. 247
M
Milburgh, F. 382
s.
Mazota, D. 240
M
Mildgytha, Jan. 273
5»
Mechell, Appdx. 305
»t
Mildred, F. 354, Jly. 317
))
Medana, Appdx. 308
SS.
Milles and comp., N. 230
)»
Medard of Noyon, Ju. 79
s.
Minver or Menefreda, Appdx.
ss
Medran and Odran, Jly. 168
314
s.
Meigan, Appdx. 277
fl
Mnason, Jly. 282
J>
Meinrad, Jan. 321
J»
Mochoemog, Mch. 245
>J
Meinulf, O. 127
J»
Mochua or Cronan, Jan. 20
)>
Meirion, Appdx. 179
M
Mochua or Cuan, Jan. 19
)>
Melangell or Monacella,
»»
Mochteus of Louth, Au. 1S2
Appdx. 225
^t
Mochuda of Lismore, My. 196
>>
Melania the Younger, D. 417
i-i
Modan, F. 91
))
Melanius, Appdx. 296, Jan. 85
It
Moderan, or Moran, O. 573
»)
Melas, Jan. 239
M
Modesta, N. 108
>>
Melchiades, Pope, D. 126
SS.
Modestus and others, Ju. 207
1)
Melchu, F. 178
s.
Modoc, S. 108
>)
Meldan, F. 193
»J
Modomnoc, F. 291
>»
Meletius, D. 28, F. 278
)J
Modwenna, Jly. 150
>>
Mellitus, Ap. 326
>I
Moling of Ferns, Ju. 249
5>
Melor, Appdx. 162, Jan. 44
J)
Moloc, or Mo-luoch, Appdx.
Memorial of the Crucifixion, Mch.
240
454
J>
Molua of Clonfert, Au. 37
^-
-*
^-
-*
354
Index to Saints.
S. Monan, Mch. i8
SS.
Nestabo, Eusebius, and comp.,
„ Monan or Moinen, Appdx.
S. 118
l88
s.
Nestor, F. 430
„ Monegunda, Jly. 38
SS.
Nestor, Eusebius, and comp..
,, Monessa, S. 47
S. 118
„ Monica, My. 67
s.
Nicander, Mch. 267
SS. Montanus and comp., F. 395
SS.
Nicander and Marcian, Ju.
„ Montanus and Maxima, Mch.
231
467
»
Nicander, Marcian, and comp. ,
S. Monynna, Jly. 149
Ju.39
„ Morwenna, Jly. 146
s.
Nicanor, Jan. 133
„ Mosentius, Jan. 163
SS.
Nicasius and comp., 0. 258
SS. Moses and others, F. 192
»>
Nicasius and Eutropia, D. 1S5
S. Moses of Syria, F. 376
S.
Nicephorus, F. 233, Mch. 249
„ Moyses, D. 219
S.S.
Niceta and Aquilina, Jly. 526
„ Moyses the Ethiopian, Au.
s.
Nicetas, Ap. 39, 0. 135
348
»>
Nicetas of Nicomedia, S. 176
„ Mummolin, O. 430
>»
Nicetas the Goth, S. 248
„ Mun, F. 178
tj
Nicetius, B. of Treves, D. 6j
,, Muran, Mch. 238
B.
Nicholas von der Flue, Mch.
„ Murdach, 0. 130
421
., Muredach, Au. 118
s.
Nicolas, F. 92
„ Musa, Ap. 24
»1
Nicolas, B. of Myra, D. 64
SS. Mustiola and Irenseus, Jly. 91
)i
Nicolas I., Pope, N. 319
)f
Nicolas Tolentini, S. 160
SS. Nabor and comp. , Jly. 256
•)
Nicomede, S. 246
Name of Jesus, The, Au. 82
SS.
Nicrostratus and others, Jly.
SS. Narses and comp., N. 460
167
S. Narcissus, Mch. 313
s.
Nidan, Appdx. 278
„ Narcissus, B. of Jerusalem,
t)
Nilus, S. 389, N. 290
0.701
J»
Ninian, S. 262
SS. Narcissus and comp., 0. 724
»»
Nithard, F. 56
„ Natalia, Adrian, and comp.,
J»
Nivard, Abp. of Rheims, S. 8
S. 113
)>
Non or Nonnita, Appdx. 189
„ Natalia or Sabagotha and
)}
Nonnosus, S. 13
comp., Jly. 588
»>
Norbert of Magdeburg, Ju. 58
S. Nathy, Au. 107
JJ
Norhburga, S. 240
Nativity of our Lord, D. 276
)»
Nothelm, Appdx. 282
Nativity of S. John the Baptist,
»»
Nothelm, Abp. of Canterbury,
Ju. 323
0.449
Nativity of the B. Virgin, S. no
B.
Notker Balbulus, Ap. 95
SS. Nazarius and Celsus, Jly. 593
s.
Novatus, Ju. 269
S. Nectan, Appdx. 238
*♦
Noyala, Jly. 140
SS. Nemesianus, Felix and comp..
ss.
Nunilo and Alodia, O. 575
S. 144
s.
Nwython or Noethan, Appdx.
S. Neniesion, D. 223
283
SS. Nemesius and Lucilla, O. 725
ss.
Nymphas and Eubulus, F.
S. Nennocha, Ju. 36
449
„ Neot, Jly. 697
»I
Nymphodora, Menodora, and
SS. Nercus and comp.. My. 158
Metrodora, S. 145
»-
-*
► ^-
->4
Index to Sahits,
355
S. Oda, O. 578
Veil. Ode, Ap. 252
S. Odhran, O. 668
„ Odilia, D. 174
„ Odilo, Jan. 20
„ Odo, N. 404
„ Odo, Abp. of Canterbury,
Jly. Ill
,, Odo of Cambrai, Ju. 260
„ Odran, F. 341
SS. Odran and Medran, Jly, 168
S. Olaf, Jly. 636
„ Olcan, F. 349
SS. Olympas and Tertius, N. 225
S. Olympias, D. 206
SS. Olympias and Maximus, Ap.
2CX)
S. Omer, S. 135
SS. Onesiphorus and Porphyry,
S. 87
S. Onisimus, F. 312
S. Onuphrius, Ju. 150
„ Optatus, Ju. 34
B. Ordorico, Jan. 211
S. Oriens, My. 14
„ Oringa, Jan. 146
,, Osmund, B. of Salisbury, D.
48
„ Oswald, King, Au. 63
„ Oswald, York, F. 455
„ Oswin, Au. 192
„ Osyth, O. 161
„ Otto, B. of Bamberg, Jly. 44
,, Oudoc, B. of Llandaft, Jly. 39
„ Ouen, B. of Rouen, Au. 263
Our Lady of Hal, Jly. 275
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Jly.
407
„ Owen, Mch. 57
S. Pabo Post Prydain, Appdx.
302
„ Pacian, Mch. 172
,, Pachomius, My. 192
„ Padarn, Ap. 200, Appdx. 289
„ PalKmon, Jan. 149
„ Palladius, O. 156, Jly. 143,
Jan. 417
„ Pambo, Jly. 5
SS. Pamphilius and others, Ju. 2
VOL. XVI
SS,
SS,
S.
SS,
S,
SS,
S,
SS
SS.
Pancharius, Mch. 328
Pancras, Ap. 33, My. 159
Pandwyna, Appdx. 268
Pansemne and Theophanes,
Ju. 130
Pantaleon, Jly. 585
Pantalus, O. 285
Pantoenns, Jly. 167
Papas, Mch. 273
Paphnutius, S. 169
Paphnutius and comp., S. 362
Papias, F. 366
Pappian, Ju. 412
Papulus, N. 65
Parthenius, F. 191
Paschal Bay Ion, My. 242
Paschal L, Pope, My. 199
Pasicrates and Valentio, My.
342
Pastor, Jly. 571
Patermuth and comp., Jly. 207
Patiens, Jan. 100
Patrician, Appdx. 316
Patrick, Mch. 285
Patrobas and Philologus, N.
106
Patroclus, Jan. 315
Paul, Jan. 215
Paul, Apostle, Ju. 432
Paul, B. of Leon, Appdx. 195
Paul, B. of Skalholt, N. 413
Paul L, Pope, Ju. 416
Paul of Constantinople, Ju.
69
Paul of Cyprus, Mch. 311
Paul of Leon, Mch. 223
Paul of Narbonne, Mch. 406
Paul of Verdun, F. 213
Paul of the Cross, N. 369
Paul the New, Jly. 193
Paul the Simple, Mch. 114
Jan. 277,
Valentina,
384
Paulinas, Jan. 436, Appdx.
3"
Paulinus of Nola, Ju. 304
Paulinus of York, O. 230
Z
Paul and comp.,
My. 205
Paul, Thea, and
Jly- 561
Paula, F. 348, Jan.
>■*-
356
Index to Samts.
s.
ss.
s.
J'
ss,
s.
Paulinus of Treves, Au. 387
Paulinus and comp., Jly. 285
Peblig or Publicius, Appdx.
248
„ Pega, Jan. 118
„ Peithian, Appdx. 176
„ Pelagia, O. 169, Ju. 89, My.
66
„ Pelagius, Ju. 377
Penitent Thief, The, Mch. 455
S. Pepin, F. 360
Perpetua, N. 105
Perpetua and comp., Mch. 102
Peregrinus and Laurence, Ju.
22
Peregrinus and others, Jly. 166
Peter, Apostle, Ju. 419
,, Peter ad Vincula, Au. i
„ Peter of Alcantara, O. 487
„ Peter of Alexandria, N. 544
„ Peter of Aste, Ju. 485
„ Peter of Canterbury, Jan. 86
B. Peter of Castlenau, Mch. 74
„ Peter of KiefF, Au. 264
Peter of Luxemburg, Jly. 85
Peter of Sebaste, Jan. 125
Peter of Tarenteise, My. 117
Peter the Spaniard, Mch. 221
Peter the Venerable, D. 280
Peter Balsam, Jan. 39
Peter Cambian, F. 45
Peter Celestine, My. 288
Peter Chrysologus, D. 11
Peter Damiani, F. 3S7
Peter Gonsalez, Ap. 205
Peter Martyr, Ap. 366
„ Peter Nolasco, Jan. 474
„ Peter Paschal, D. 71
SS. Peter and comp.. My. 205
„ Peter and comp. of Carthage,
Mch. 256
„ Peter and comp. of Nicomedia,
Mch. 222
„ Peter, Walabons, and comp.,
Ju. 72
S. Peter's Chair, Jan. 275
„ Peter's Chair at Antioch, F.
365
„ Petrock, Ju. 35
B.
S.
B.
S.
B.
S.
S. Petronilla, My. 427
,, Peulin, Appdx. 31 1
„ Pharaiklis, Jan. 60
SS. Phileas and others, F. 80
„ Philemon and Apollonius,
Mch. 156
„ Philemon and Appia, N. 501
„ Philetus and comp., Mch. 428
S. Philip, S. 184
,, Philip, Ap., My. I
,, Philip of Agyra, My. 161
,, Philip of Tralles.Ju. 55
,, Philip Beniti, Au. 252
Philip Neri, My. 391
Philip of Heraclea and comp.,
0.565
Philogonius, B. of Antioch,
D. 225
Philologus and Patrobas, N.
106
Philomena, Jly. 128, Au. iii
Philonilla and Zenais, O. 257
Phlegon and comp., Ap. 121
Phocas, Mch. 63, Jly. 320
Phocas the Gardener, S. 327
Phoebe, S. 34
Photinus, F. 358
Photius and Anicetus, Au. 115
Piala, Mch. 437
Piatus, O. I
Pieriu.s, N. 106
Pinitus, O. 223
Pionius and comp., F. 5
Pior, Ju. 235
Piran or Kieran, Mch. 66
Pirminus, N. 83
Pius v.. Pope, My. 80
Placidus and comp., O. 120
,, Placidus and Sigisbert, Jly.
280
S. Plato, Jly. 510, Ap. 69
,, Plechelm, Jly. 358
,, Plegmund, Appdx. 258
SS. Plutarch, Potamicena, and
others, Ju. 410
S. Poemen, Au. 330
,, Polycarp, Jan. 378
,, Polychronius, B. M., F. 319
,, Polychronius, H., F. 376
,, Polyeuctus, F. 287
SS.
SS.
S.
SS.
s.
SS.
S.
SS.
s.
ss.
->4
Index to Saints.
357
S. Pontianus, Pope, N. 411
,, Pontius, My. 18S
„ Poppo, Jan. 375
SS. Porcarius and comp., Au.
119
S. Porphyrins, F. 434
SS. Porphyry and Onesiphorus,
S. 87
,, Potamisena and others, Ju. 410
S. Potamisena the Younger, J 11.
68
SS. Pothinus and others, Ju. 7
S. Praejectus, J.nn. 375
,, Praetextatus, F. 402
,, Praxedix, Jly. 496
Presentation of the B. V. Mary,
N. 486
S. Priamianus, F. 376
SS. Primilivus and Facundus, N.
564
.S. Primus, Jan. 44
.SS. Primus and Felician, Ju. 87
S. Principius, P. of .Soissons, S.
.376
,, Prisca, Jan. 276
,, Priscilla, Jan. 238
,, Priscus, S. I
SS. Probus and comp., O. 260
,, Probus and Grace, Appdx.
208
,, Processus and Martinian, Jly.
34
S. Prochorus, Ap. 130
,, Proclus, B. of Constantinople,
O. 605
,, Procopius of Csesarea, Jly. 184
,, Procopius of Prague, lly. 123
,, Proculus, Mch. 435
SS. Prosdoee and comp., O. 63
S. Prosdichimus, N. 168
,, Prosper of Aquitain, Ju. 353
,, Prosper of Reggio, Ju. 358
,, Proierius, F. 451
S.S. Protus and Hyacinth, S. 166
S. Prudentius, Ap. 362
SS. Ptolemseusand Lucius, O. 478
,, Pudens and Pudentiana, My.
262
S. Pulcheria, Empss., .S. 148
Purification of B. V. Mary, F. 34
S. QUADRATUS, My. 383
,, Quartus, N. 64
SS. Quatuor Coronati, N. 185
S. Quintin, O. 725
,, Quintin of Tours, O. 66
,, Quintilian, Ap. 18 1
,, Quiriacus, My. 64
SS. Quiriacus, Censurinus, and
comp., S. 67
S. Quirinus, Ju. 30
,, Quirinus of Rome, Mch. 456
,, Quirinus the Tribune, Mch.
504
SS. Quirinus and comp., O. 258
S. Quiteria, My. 333
,, Quodvultdeus, O. 645
S. Radbod, B. of Utrecht, N.
591
,, Radegund, Queen, Au. 130
,, Radegund, V., Au. 136
,, Ragnbert, Ju. 17S
,, Ragnulf, jly. 323
,, Randoald, F. 361
,, Raymund, Jan. 357
B. Raymund Lulli, Ju. 489
S. Raymund Nonnatus, Au. 401
,, Raymund of Fitero, F. 29
„ Regina, S. loi, Jly. 31
,, Reginswinda, Jly. 359
,, Regula, S. 169
,, ReguluB, O. 454, Mch. 504
,, Remade, S. 38
,, Rembert, F. 98
,, Remigius, B. of Rheims, O. 2
,, Renovatus, Mch. 515
,, Reolus, N. 542
SS. Respicius and Trypho, N. 277
S. Restituta, My. 238
,, ReynildisorRainilda, Jly. 406
,, Rhais, S. 70
,, Rhediw, Appdx. 303
,, Rhian, Appdx. 194
SS. Rhipsime, Gaiane, and others,
S.437
,, Rhuddlad, Appdx. 271
,, Rhwydrys, Appdx. 2S7
,, Richard, F. 194
,, l-iichard of Chichester, Ap
,, Richard Rolle, Appdx. 277 "'
*
*-
*
358
Index to Saints.
Richarius, Ap. 352
Rictrudis, My. 170
Rigobert, Jan. 61
Rioch, F. 178, Appdx. 1S2
Roch, Au. 155
Robert, Ju. 76, Appdx. 202
Robert of Arbrissel, F. 426
Robert of Molesme, Ap. 366
Robert Knaresborough, S. 364
SS. Rogatianus and Felicissimus,
O. 644
S. Rolenda, My. 187
,, Romana, O. 51
,, Ronianus, Au. 106, N. 401,
F. 452
,, Romanus, B. of Rouen, O. 577
SS. Romanus and David, S. 75
S. Romaric, D. no
,, Romuald, F. 194
,, Romula, Jly. 524
,, Romulus, S. 67, N. 152
SS. Romulus and comp. , Jly. 1 31
S. Ronald, Au. 215
,, Ronan, Appdx. 180, Ju, 4
,, Rosa, S. 57
,, Rosalia, S. 53
,, Rose of Lima, Au. 316
,, Ruadan, Ap. 202
SS. Ruderick and Salomon, Mch.
254
S. Rudesind, Mch. 19
,, Rudolf, Ap. 221
SS. Ruffinus and Valerius, Ju. 190
,, Rufin and Wulfhad, Jly. 531
,, Rufina and Secunda, Jly. 254
,, Rufus and Zosimus, D. 219
S. Rumbold, Jly. 27
,, Rumon, Jan. 57
,, Rumon, Roman, or Ruan,
Appdx. 165
,, Rumwold, Appdx. 209
,, Rusticus, B. of Narbonne, O.
645
SS. Rusticus and comp., O. 195
S. Rutilius, Au. 18
,, Rychwyn, Appdx. 233
SS. Sabagotha, Aurelius, and
comp., Jly. 588
S. Sabas, D. 53
S. Sabas the Goth, Ap. 176
SS. Sabiel and others, Ju. 234
,, Sabina and comp., O. 649
S. Sabine, F. 241, Jan. 273
SS. Sabinian and Sabina, Jan. 439
,, Sabinus and others, D. 405
S. Sadwrn Farchog, Appdx. 317
,, Salaberga, S. 339
,, Salome, O. 562
S.S. Salome and Judith, Ju. 455
S. Salomon, Mch. 254
,, Salaun, N. 40
,, Salvius, Ju. 375, S. 158, Jan.
160
SS. Samonas and comp., N. 334
S. Samson, Appdx. 254
,, Samson, K. of Dol, Jly. 602
,, Sampson Xenodochus, Ju. 387
SS. Sanctianus, Augustinus, and
Beata, S. 89
,, Sapientia and comp., Au. 4
S. Sara, Jly. 305
SS. Saturian and comp., O. 416
S. Saturninus, F. 259, N. 5S9
,, Satyrius, S. 273
SS. Satyrus and others, Jan. 163
S. Savin, O. 203
,, Sawyl Benuchel, Appdx. 172
,, Schetzelo, Au. 81
,, .Scholastica, F. 250
SS. Scholastica and Injuriosus,
My. 344
S. Scothin, Appdx. 161
SS. Scubiculus and comp., O. 258
S. Sebaldus, Au. 1S3
,, Sebastian, Jan. 300, F. 212
,, Sebbi, Au. 380
SS. Secunda and Rufina, Jly. 254
,, Secunda or Septima and
comp., Jly. 678
S. Secundinus, Appdx. 316
,, Secundinus, B. in Meath, N.
. 578.
SS. Secundinus and Castus, Jly. 3
S. Secundus, Mch. 503
SS. Secundus and comp., My. 319
S. Seiriol, Appdx. 162
,, Sempert, O. 326
,, Senan, Ap. 364, O. 658,
Appdx. 194
*-
-*
Index to Saints.
359
S. Senan of Iniscarthy, Mch. 1 59
,, Sennan or Senanus, Appdx.
233
SS. Sennan and Abdon, Jly. 677
,, Separation of the Apostles,
Jly- 347
B. vSeraphina, S. 127
S. Serapion, B. of Antioch, O.
717
,, Serenus, F. 374, O. 16
,, Serf or Servan, Jly. 9
,, Sergius, F. 402
,, Sergius I., Pope, S. 137
,, Sergius, Ab. , S. 381
SS. Sergius and Bacchus, O. 155
S. Servatus of Tongres, My. 183
,, Serverian, S. 132
,, Servulus, D. 239
,, Sethrida, Jan. 138
Seven Sleepers, The, Jly. 575
S. Severinus, Jan. loi
„ Severus, N. 164, Ap. 374
,, Severus (Avranches), F. 23
,, Severus (Ravenna), F. 12
,, Severus (Valeria), F. 306
,, Sexburga, Jly. 158
,, Sezin, Mch. 90
,, Sidonius Apollinaris, Au. 244
,, Sidronius, Jly. 277
,, Sidwell or Sativola, Appdx.
258
„ Sigebert, O. 712, F. 24
,, Sigfrid, Appdx. 267
,, Sigfried, F. 310
SS. Sigisbert and Placidus, Jly.
280
S. Sigismund, My. 17
,, Silas, Jly. 304
,, .Silvester, Jan. 36
,, Simeon, F. 328
,, Simeon of Ctesiphon, Ap.
260
,, Simeon the Old, Jan. 383
,, .Simeon Metaphrastes, N. 574
,, Simeon, Prophet, O. 164
,, Simeon Salus, Jly. 26
,, Simeon .Stylites, Jan. 72
,, Simon, Ap., O. 671
,, .Simon of Trent, Mch. 447
„ Simon Stock, My. 226
S.
SS.
SS.
>)
>>
>)
SS.
s.
SS.
S.
SS.
Simplicius, Mch. 22
Simplicius of Autun, Ju. 336
Simplicius, Bertrix, and Fau-
shinus, Jly. 631
Sina and comp., N. 230
.Sisinnius and comp., My. 41S
Sisoes, Jly. 140
Sixtus, Mch. 489
Sixtus, Pope, Ap. 89
Sixtus II., Pope, Au.
75
Au.
SS
S,
Smaragdus and comp
98
.Socrates and Stephen, S. 272
Solangia, My. 145
Solina, O. 437
Solomon or Selyf, Appdx. 421
Solus, D. 20
Sophronius, Mch. 215
Sosipater and Jason, Ju. 341
Sosthenes, N. 577
Soteris, F. 248
Sozon, S. 98
Sperandea, .S. 174
.Speratus and comp., Jly. 409
Spes, Mch. 489
Spes and comp., Au. 4
Speusippus and others, Jan.
246
Speridion, D. 180
Stachys, O. 724
Stanislas Kotska, N. 322
Stanislaus of Cracow, My
Stephen, D. 296
Stephen, K., S. 19
Stephen I., Pope, Au. 16
Stephen of Grandmout,
224
Stephen of Servia, N. 287
Stephen the Younger, N. 583
Stephen Harding, Ap. 220
.Stephen and comp., Jly. 125
Stinan, Appdx. 320
Sturmi, D. 208
Sulien, N. 195
Sulien or Sulin, Appdx. 270
Sulpicius Severus, Jan. 442
Sunnifa, Jly. 195
Sura, F. 252
Susanna, S. 320, F. 246, Jan
278, Au. 114
110
F.
-+
•i*
360
Index to Saints.
S. Swibert the Elder, Mch. 16
,, Swithun, Jly. 40
,, Sylvanus of Gaza, My. 66
,, Sylverius, Pope, Ju. 271
,, Sylvester, Pope, D. 412
,, Symeon, Jly. 571
,, Symmachus, Jly. 448
,, Symphorian, F. 451, Au. 230
SS. Symphorosa and her sons, Jly.
432 ,
S. Syncletica, Jan. 67
,, .Syntyche, Jly. 510
S. Tai.arican, O. 721, Appdx.
286
,, Tancha, O. 247
,, Tanco, F. 317
,, Tanwg, Appdx. 280
SS. Tarachus and conip., O. 260
S. Taraghta, F. 236
,, Tarasius, F. 416
,, Tarsilla, D. 272
,, Tathan or Tathseus, Appdx.
324
,, Tatian, Mch. 271
SS. Tatian, Macedonius and Theo-
dulus, S. 179
S. Tatwin, Abp. of Canterbury,
Jly. 680
,, Tecwyn, or Tegwyn, Appdx.
274
,, Tegla, or Theckla, Appdx.
229
,, Teilo, Appdx. 181, F. 238
,, Telemachus, Jan. 7
,, Telesphorus, Jan. 65
,, Tenenan, Appdx. 253
SS. Ten Thousand Martyrs, Ju.
299
S. Ternan, or Torannan, Appdx.
233
SS. Tertius and Olympus, N. 225
S. Tetricus, Mch. 322
,, Teyrnog, or Tyrnog, Appdx.
207
,, Thaddaeus, Disc, O. 679
,, Thais, O. 167
SS. Thalassius and Limnaeus, F.
367
S. Thaleljeus, F. 444
SS. Thallelaens and comp.. My,
307 .
S. Tharsicius, Au. 143
S.S. Thea, Valentina, and Paul,
Jly- 561
S. Thecla, O. 357, Jan. 278, S.
350
SS. Thecla and Justina, Jan. 133
,, Thecla and comp., Au. 179
S. Thenew, Jly. 433
,, Theobald, Ju. 486
,, Theodard, S. 159, My. 25
,, Iheodehilda, Ju. 413
,, Theodora, Empress, F. 271,
,, Theodora of Alexandria, S.
172
,, Theodora of Rome, Ap. I
SS. Theodora and Didymus, Ap.
359
S. Theodore, Jly. 98
,, Theodore, Abp. of Canter-
bury, S. 303
,, Theodore of Amasea, N. 216
,, Theodore of Apamea, F. 358
,, Theodore of Heraclea, F. 190
,, Theodore of the Studium, N.
262
,, Thedoric, Jly. II, Jan. 414
,, Theodosia, Ap. 14. My. 420
,, Theodosius, Jan. 151
,, Theodota, Au. 18
,, Theodotus, B. of Laodicea,
N. 48
Theodotus and comp., My.
245
Theodotus, Maximus, and
Asclepiodotus, S. 247
Theodulus the Stylite, My. 409
Theodulus and Agathopus,
Ap. 61
,, Theodulus and comp., Jan. 202
,, Theodulus and Julian, F. 320
,, Theodulus, Macedonius, and
Tatian, S. 179
,, Theognis and comp., Jan. 44
S. Theonestus, O. 720
,, Theophanes, S. 130
SS. Theophanes and Pansemne,
Ju. 130
S. Theophilus, Penitent, F. 88
SS
S.
SS,
>>
)»
Theophilus of Antioch, O. 320
Theophilus the Younger, Jly.
517
Theoritgitha, Jan. 397
Theotimus, Ap. 251
Theresa, O. 358
,, Thomas, Ap., D. 226
,, Thomas a Becket, Appdx. 326,
D-325
B. Thomas of Lancaster, Mch.
414
S. Thomas of Villanova, S. 34I
,, Thomas Aquinas, Mch. 116
,, Thomas Cantikipe, O. 31
„ Thorlac, B.of Skalholt, D. 262
.SS. Three Soldiers, Jly. 38
,, Thyrsus, Andochius, and Felix,
S. 361
,, Thyrsus and comp., Jan. 416
,, Thyrsus and others, O. 62
S. Tibba, Mch. 93
SS. Tiburtius and Chromatins,
Au. 113
S. Tighernach, Ap. 62
SS. Tigris and Eutropius, Jan. 163
,, Timolaus and comp., Mch.
444
S. Timothy, Jan. 359
SS. Timothy and Apollinaris, Au.
.243
,, Timothy and Maura, My. 55
,, Timothy, Thecla, and Aga-
pius, Au. 179
S. Titus, Jan. 53
,, Torpes, My. 237
SS. Torquatus and comp., My.
204
S. Tranquillinus, Jly. 136
Transfiguration of our Lord, The,
Au. 75
Translation of S. Cuthliert, S. 50
Translation of S. Edward, Ju. 281
Translation of the Holy House to
Loreto, D. 129
S. Tresan, F. 192
,, Triduana, O. 180
,, Trillo, Appdx. 234
,, Trojanus, N. 598
,, Trophima, Jly. 129
,, Trophimus, D. 321
S. Trudo, N. 511
,, Trudpert, Ap. 351
,, Trumwin, B. of the Picts, D.
12
SS. Tryphena and Tryphosa, N.
226
,, Trypho and Respicius, N. 227
S. Tryphonia, O. 471
,, Tuda, Appdx. 183
,, Tudglyd, Appdx. 228
,, Tudno, Appdx. 230
,, Tudur, Appdx. 28 1
,, Tudy, Appdx. 274
,, Tugdual, N. 599, Appdx. 318
,, Turgot, Appdx. 206
,, Turibius, Ap, 210
SS. Twelve Brethren, S. 2
,, Twenty Monks at S. Sabas,
Mch. 365
,, Two Ewalds, O. 55
S. Twrog, Appdx. 243
,, Tybie, Appdx. 176
,, Tydecho, Appdx. 322
,, Tydfyl, Appdx. 268
,, Tyfaelog, Appdx. 187
,, Tyfei, Appdx. 202
,, Ty fry dog, Appdx. 160
>. Jygris, Ju. 359
,, I yllo, Jan. 94
S.S. Tyrannio and comp., P". 346
S. Tyssul, Appdx. 177
S. Ubald, My. 223
,, Ulched, Appdx. 168
,, Ulphia, Jan. 472
,, Ulpian, Ap. 38
,, Ulric, Jly. n6
,, Uni, 0.658
,, Urban I., Pope, My. 341
SS. Urban and comp., O. 724
S. Urbicius, Ap. 38
,, Ust, Appdx. 264
SS. Ursula and Eleven Thousand
Virgins, O. 535
,, Ursus and Victor, S. 441
S. Uvellus, Appdx. 310
SS. Vai.entina, Thea and Paul,
Jly- 561
S. Valentine, F. 296, Jan. 90
*-
*
362
Index to Saints.
ss.
Valeria and Vitalis, Ap. 357
S. Virgilius, Mch. 72
s.
Valerian, D. 197
,, Virgilius, B. of Salzburg, N.
))
Valerius of Treves, Jan. 439
570
1 J
Valerius (Saragossa), Jan. 417
SS. Virgins in Africa, D. 199
bS.
Valerius and Ruffinus, Ju. 190
Visitation of the B.V. Mary, Jly.
,.
Varus and others, O. 4S0
32
s.
Vasius, Ap. 210
S. Vitalian, Jly. 404
)1
Vedast, F. 179
„ Vitalina, F. 359
) J
Veep, Wymp, or Wennapa,
,, Vitalis, Jan. 156
Appdx. 246
SS. Vitalis and Agricola, N. 107
}}
Veho, or Vougo, Appdx. 234
,, Vitalis and Valeria, Ap. ,57
))
Voloc, or Macwoloc, Appdx.
,, Vitus, Modestus, and Cres-
176
centia, Ju. 207
•9*
Venantius, My. 244
S. Vladimir, Jly. 360
t )
Venantius Fortunatus, D. 186
„ Vougas, Ju. 211
ss.
Venerandus and Maximus,
My. 343 .
,, Vulmar, Jly. 489
s.
Verca and children, Mch. 468
S. Walabons, Ju. 72
) J
Verdiana, F. 31
,, Walaric of Leuconay, Ap. 3
))
Verena, S. 2
,, Walburga, F. 414
J»
Veronica, F. 73, Jly. 287
,, Walfrid, F. 309
>)
Veronica of Milan, Jan. 196
,, Walhere,Ju. 318
))
Victor, F. 410
,, Walstan, Appdx. 228
) >
Victor, Pope, Jly. 595
,, Walter, A p. 122
'J
Victor of Braga, Ap. 175
B. Walter of Bierbeeke, Jan. 341
ss.
Victor and comp., Jly. 498
S. Waltheof, Au. 29
) )
Victor and Susanna, F. 246
,, Waltrudis, Ap. 13 1
5)
Victor and Ursus, S. 441
„ Wandregisl, J ly. 515
) J
Victor, Zoticus, and comp.,
,, Wenceslas, S. 421
Ap. 250
,, Wendelin, 0. 561
s.
Victoria, D. 238
,, Wennapa, Appdx. 246
) )
Victorian, Mch. 439
,, Werburga, F. 52
ss.
Victoricus, Fuscianus, and
,, Werenfried, Au. 347
Gentianus, D. 136
,, \Yerner, Ap. 248
s.
Victorinus, S. 66, N. 47
White Mass, The, .Au. 261
ss.
Victorinusand comp., Ap. 199
S. Wilfreda, S. 140
J)
Victorinus and comp. in
,, Wilfrid II., Appdx. 217
Egypt, F. 410
,, Wilfrid, B. of York, O. 292
s.
Vigiiius, Ju. 370
„ Wilgefortis, Jly. 488
Vigor, N. 25
,, Wilgis, Appdx. 177
Vincent, Jan. 331, Mch. 213
,, WiUebold, N. 61
Vincent of Calahorra, Ap. 227
,, WiUehad, N. 197
Vincent of Lerins, My. 337
,, William, Appdx. 224
Vincent of Paul, Jly. 454
,, William (Bourges), Jan. 139
Vincent Ferrier, Ap. 87
,, William, B. of Roskilde, S. 13
Vincent Magdelgar, Jly. 321
,, William of Maleval, F. 253
ss
Vincent and Laetus, S. 4
,, William of Monte Virgine,
Vincent, Sabina, and Chry-
Ju. 362
steta, 0. 649
,, Williamof Norwich, Mch. 461
s
Vindician, Mch. 215
,, WilliamofRochester, My. 336
->*
*-
Index to Saints.
563
S. William of York, Ju. 82
S.
Zabdas, F. 341
„ William, Longsword, Uuke,
1 J
Zacchseus of Jerusalem, Au.
D. 212
237
„ Willibald, Jly. 170
SS.
Zacchseus and Alphreus, N.
„ Willibrord, N. 170
378
,, Winefred, N. 69
s.
Zacharias, Mch. 268
,, Winnoc, N. 164
»>
Zacharias (Jerusalem), F.
,, Winoc or Guinock, Appdx.
359
211
SS.
Zacharias and Elizabeth, N.
,, Winwaloe, Appdx. 190, 217,
147
Mch. 49
>>
Zebinas and comp., N. 311
,, Wiro, My. 116
)I
Zebinus and others, F. 376
,, Wistan, Ju. 5
S.
Zenas, S. 397
,, Withburga, Appdx. 251, IMch.
SS.
Zenais and Philonilla, 0.
309
257
,, Wolfgang, B. of Ratisbon, O.
s.
Zeno, F. 249
728
)?
Zeno of Verona, Ap. 175
SS. Wulfhad and Rufin, Jly. 53 1
ss.
Zeno and Zenas, Ju. 308
S. Wulfhilda, Appdx. 272
) )
Zeno and others, D. 224
,, Wulfram, Mch. 361
J>
Zeno, Eusebius, and comp.,
„ Wulfric, F. 356
S. 118
,, Wulgan, N. 59
))
Zeno, Concordius, and others,
,, Wulphlag, Ju. 71
S. 12
,, Wulsin, Jan. 118
19
Zeno, Eudoxius, and comp..
,, Wulstan, Jan. 290
S. 68
,, Wymp, Appdx. 246
s.
Zephyrinus, Pope, Au. 311
)»
Zita, Ap. 354
S. Xavier, Francis, N. 602
1 1
Zoe, Jly. 127
SS. Xenophon and Mary, Jan. 389
ss.
Zoe and Hesperus, My. 28
„ XXXVIII. Monks in Ionia,
>»
Zoilus and comp., Ju. 387
Jan. 175
s.
Zosimus, Pope, D. 301
S. Xystus (Sixtus), Ap. 89
)>
Zosimus of Syracuse, Mch.
,, Xystus, Pope, Mch. 489
508
ss.
Zosimus and Athanasius, Jan.
S. Yarcard, Au. 262
38
,, Ytha, Appdx. 171
)J
Zosimus and Mary, A p. 15
,, Yvo, My. 301, Ju. 132
>1
Zosimus and Rufus, D. 219
,, Yvo or Ivo, B. of Chartres,
s.
Zoticus, Jly. 501
D. 241
ss.
Zoticus and comp., Ap.
„ Ywi, 0. 135
250
*-
*
*-
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
[The following contractions arc used to indicate the months :- -Jan.
{January), F. {February), Mch. {March), A J {April), My. {May),
Ju. {Juiie),Jly. {July), Au. {August), S. {September), O. {October),
N. {November), D. (December), Appdx. {Vol. xvi.)'\.
Abfat, cruel, Au. 46 : deserts his
monastery, Jan. 95-6 ; Ap. 123 ;
Tu. 238 : murdered l)y monks,
Jan. 87 ; O. 432 : profligate, D.
200 : youthful, My. 279
Abbats, two at once, Jan. 12
Abbess, child, Mch. 279, 307 ; S.
270 ; N. 466 : murderess made,
J"- 457 ^ , .
Abbeys given by kmgs, Ju. 134,
457
Abdication of Pope, My. 298, 352
Abelard, story of, Au. 207-11;
D. 286-7
Abgar, letters of, N. 442 ; O. 679-
681
Abingdon, monastery rebuilt, Au.
9-1 1 : pool at, O. 654
"xAbove," word of comfort, O.
504
Abscesses, saint afflicted with, Ap.
190
Absence of mind, F. loi ; Mch.
143, 150; S. 294; N. 165
Absolution sold, Au. 293
Abstinence. See Fasting
Abyssinia, Church of, O. 652, 659-
668 ; N. 516-25 ; 613-15 : con-
version of, O. 652, 660-1
Acacius, schism of, Jlv. 100; Au.
87-9; N. 487-8 ;b: 151-5
Accusation against dying saint, F.
426 : of theft against saint, Jly.
458 : of unchastity against Pope,
Jly. 450-1 ; D. 141 : of unchastity
against saint, F. 42 ; My. 39 ;
Jly. 476 ; N. 313
Acepliali, heresy of, Au. 190
Achilles Tatius, romances of, S.
168 ; O. 621 ; N. 149
Acholyth, saint, Au. 143
Acoemeti, the Order of, Jan. 232-3
F. 92
Acrimony, theological, My. 166
s. 459-62
Actor saint, F. 443 ; Mch. 156-S
Ap. 189 ; Au. 267-70
Actress, lessons to be learned from,
Jly. 6 : saint, O. 169, 170
Acts of Pilate, Au. 329
Acts of saints, fabrication of, Ap.
217, 325. 345-9; Ju. 78, 295;
Jly. 277, 285; S. 94; O. 10, 13,
62. 704, 706: fabulous. Jan. 70-2,
121-5,238.246-7,276-7,347-8;
F.47,88-91, 176-7, 190,231,248,
330; Mch. 2-8, 45-9, 156-9.
313,482,483,503,504,513-15 ;
Ap. 1-2, 33, 34-7, 124, 129,
133-4. 177, 180, 199, 223, 227,
250, 301-5, 325-6, 345-9, 352,
358-9. 370-1 ; My. 54, 59, 64-5,
66, 94-5, 139-40. 141. 158-9.
160, 181, 204, 207-9, 211-13;
237, 244, 262, 3c 6, 307, 333, 342,
364
►p-
*-
^
Index of Subjects.
65
407, 427, 428-30; Ju. I, 36-7,
55. 78, 149-50, 154-5. 176-7.
207-8, 219, 221, 239-45, 246-7,
251-2; 270-1, 282, 288, 290-
303, 342, 359-60, 366-70, 377.
387, 426-30, 463-84 ; Jiy- 3-4,
8-9, lo-i I, 23-4, 34-7, 38, 125-6,
127, 131-5, 136, 137-9, 165-6,
167-8, 185-7, 195-7, 203-4, 206,
207-10, 251-2, 257, 277, 2S3-5,
306-9, 320, 432-3. 485-7. 488-9,
496, 497, 526, 527-30, 553-9.
575-8, 585-6, 593, 613-29, 635,
677; Au. 4, 24, 98, 114, 129,
155, 158, 171-4, 177, 235-6,
256, 315, 384. 401-4; S. 8, 12,
46, loi, 103, 131, 166, 169,
176-7, 180, 184, 246, 257, 259-
260, 301, 319,328, 350, 385, 386,
397. 437-40, 442; O. I, 16-19,
51, 62, 66-S, 120-5, 132-3.
152-4, 181, 191, 195, 225-7,
258-9, 285-6, 358-9, 454-5,
471-3, 495, 505-6, 620-27, 628-
30,631-4, 649-50, 653-6, 685-6,
697-8, 704, 706, 720-21, 725-7 ;
N. lo-ii, 12, 13-17, 65-6, 149-
152, 300-4, 502-5, 507-8, 513,
540-2, 562-4, 590-1, 595-7 ; D. I,
10, 25-8, 64, 67, 125, 136, 156,
168-70, 228-33, 236, 270, 278-9,
300-1,405-6,411 : forgeries, Jan.
121, 276; Y. 88-91, 190; Mch.
16, 45-9. 267 ;Ap. 33-4,177,223,
301-4, 345-9, 352; My. 139,
158, 161, 164, 188, 237, 262,
407 ; Ju. 269-70, 295-6, 298,
299. 366-70, 429, 463 ; Jiy- 3.
I3I-5. 285-7, 304, 320, 485,
594; S. 94, 186, 325, 442; O.
62, 120-2, 124, 152-4, 191, 195,
197, 433. 604, 620, 704; N. 12,
13, 168, 300-4, 565, 590-1 :
transfer of, F. 276, 444 ; Mch.
56, 90 ; Ap. 206, 325, 358-9 ;
My. 24;; Ju. I, 78, 129; Jly.
3. 4. 137. 139, 185, 251-2, 257,
413-19. 432, 485; s. 94; o.
471, 495, 604-5, 619
Adoption, symbol of, N. 33
Adria, O. 515
Adultery, bishops charged with,
My. 39; N. 313, 385; D. 242,
249, 251 : popes charged with,
yiy. 450 ; D. 141 : saint com-
mits, Au. 267
Advancement, prayer for, O. 482
Advertisement of self by saint, O.
592
" Advocate of Christians," title of,
Ju. 8
"Advocate of Poor," title of, S.
406
Aiifection between masters and
slaves, My. 332, O. 1 17-18:
lack of natural, N. 351 : mon-
astic, Au. 120, 122, 335; N.
392 {see also Monastic friend-
ships) : natural, overcome, Jan.
II, 78, 203; Mch. 425; Ju.
235, 487; Jly- 605; Au. 25,
30, 333-4 ; 'S. 79-80, 345 ; O.
531, 557-8, 699; N. 57-8, 257,
446, 489-90 ; D. 1 1 2- 1 3
Afra (S.), Church of, at Augsburg,
Au. 62 ; O. 326
Agapa:, Au. 365
Agaunum, monastery founded,
"My. 17
Aghaboe, monastery founded, O.
279.
Agnoetse, heresy of, S. 190
Agrestin, schism of, Mch. 499-
501 ; D. 106-7, 113
Ague, Ap. 168, 191 ; O. 71, I35.
228-9, 394
Alaric, K. of Visigoths, Jan. 167 ;
Ju. 372 ; Jly. 599
Albert of Austria, murder of. My.
lOI
Albigenses, heresy of, Jan. 140-1,
358, 471 ; Mch. 74-87 ; Ap.
367 ; Au. 41, 44-50; U. 271,
289, 292
Alchemy, Ju. 493
Alcuin, school of, Mch. 473 ; My.
269
Aleth, city of, F. 26 ; N. 338
Alexandria, catechetical school of,
Jly. 167; N. 168, 371, 544; D-
*-
^
-> <
366
htdex of Subjects.
24: plague of, Y. 449-50; N.
374, 376
Alfred (K.), miraculous cure of,
A p. 71
Algerine pirates, Jly. 456
Algonquin mission, Jly. 737, saj.
Alive, burial, Mch. 467 ; Ap. 357;
N. 237.8
Alleluja, omitted in Lent, A p.
246 : paschal, Ap. 73 : victory,
Jly. 684
Allemanni, incursions of, F. 179;
Ju. 342 ; Jly. 687 ; O. 6 ; N.
242-4
All-fours, saint goes on, F. 256
All Saints, N. i-io
All Souls, Jan. 27 ; Ju. 241 ; N.
42-7
Almsgiving, methodical, Jan. 348 ;
Jly. 460 : profuse, Jan. 348-9 ;
"O. 346, 412 ; D. 421
Alpenstocks, martyrdom by, My.
419
Alphabet inscribed on girdle, Mch.
257
Altar, breast used as, Jan. 89:
brought by doves, Mch. 24:
brought from heaven, My. 215 :
deacon's hands used as, Jan.
375 : linen, consecration of, N.
207 : linen falls from heaven,
Jly. 166 : linen not to be touched
by woman, O. 638 : made by S.
Bridget, F. 17 : of wood, F. 17;
S. 178 : portable, N. 179 : saints
slain at, Jan. 289, 369 ; My.
112; Jly. 273; S. 178; D. 399:
swims, O. 619 : vessels .sold for
the poor, Jan. 23, 407 ; F. 98 ;
Mch. 315, 412 ; Au. 15 ; D. 78
Altars, numerous, O. 160
Alumbrados, heretics, Jly. 720
Amalarius, story of. My. 269
Amants, les Deux, My. 344
Amber, superstitious u (of, D. 7
Ambition, monastic, Au. 204, 206-7
Amen, a ghostly, Ju. 317
America, Irish discovery of. My.
219
Amesbury Abbey founded, Jan. 45
Amoneburg, monastery founded,
Ju- 44
Amphitheatres, Jan. 42 : attrac
tions of, Au. 145-6
Ampoule, la Sainte, O. 7-10
Amputation of hands, Feb. 9
Anachronisms, Mch. 435 ; My. 94,
139, 158, 159, 343; Ju- 155.
299. 300, 366, 463 ; |ly. 107,
150,211,284,578, :;93, 620; Au.
262; S. 16S, 278; 6. 16, 19,
53, 153,226,471,621,634,652;
N. 16, 22, 301, 504, 565, 601-2
Anchor attached to martyr's neck,
N. 508
Anchorites, comfortable life of,
S. 121 : distinct from Cenobites,
D. 56 : life of, Jan. 74-7, 95,
151, 215-16, 251-6, 325-6, 374,
433-6, 469; F- 32, 85, 249,
254, 290, 300-2, 356, 369, 427,
445 ; Mch. 97, 274, 275, 278,
389-91, 425-8, 485 ; Ap. 17-24,
79, 115, 166-9, 187, 218, 228,
351 ; My. 48, 125-7, 136-7,226,
289-90, 323-4, 410 ; Ju. 57, 75,
131, 151-4, 194-5, 235, 236,
238, 248, 254, 290, 337, 339,
362-3, 45S-9; Jly. 5-8, 14. 38,
154, 351. 358, 404, 447-8 ; Au.
81,250,331; S. 3, 9, 55. 120-1,
130-1, 194, 364-72, 382; O.
65, 176-7, 200-3, 207, 422-3,
474. 506-22 ; N. 54-7, loo-i,
no, 219-22, 245, 348,; D. 54-5,
'43-55. ^17) ■ walled up, F. 32 ;
Mch. 97, 275, 485 ; Ap. 79, 218 ;
Ju. 458 ; Jly. 38 ; Au. 28 ; O.
176-7, 460-2; N. 346
Andenne, monastery founded, D.
207
Angel acts as guide, Mch. 330,
332; My. 54; S. 54-5, 165:
apparition of, F. 8 : attendant,
Mch. 194, 332; Ap. 148, 322;
Jly. 444; Au. 323; N. 503:
brings a crown of virginity, Jan.
123 ; My. 22 ; Jly. 203 ; N. 503 :
brings a crown to a martyr, Ju.
19 ; N. 229, 564 : brings a slate
*-
► <-
-*
Index of Subjects.
Z^7
from heaven, Au. 182: brings
bread from heaven, Jly. 528 ; N.
163 : brings chocolate from
heaven, Au. 323 : brings dinner
to a saint, O. 710 : carries a
bell, My. 144 : carries a bishop's
staff, N. 75 : catches the devil
by a snap-collar, N. 257 : cha-
rioteer, Ap. 63 : communicates a
saint, Ju. 152 : fights in a tour-
nament, Jan. 342 : guards a
virgin, Jan. 120, 147, 319; My.
206 ; N. 503 : guards sheep,
Au. 402 : indicates site of mon-
astery, Jan. 19: makes dress-
trimmings, O. 183 : ploughs,
My. 148 ; S. 181 : reaps corn,
O. 281 : robes a virgin, Jan.
319 : rows a boat, O. 485 : sym-
bol of, Jan. 321 ; Mch. 202 ; Ju.
332; Jly. 444; Au. 157; S.
325 : teaches a virgin to read,
Jan. 197 : veils a virgin, Jly.
563 : visits a saint. My. 54 ;
O. 559 : warns a virgin, O. 707 :
whips a saint, Ju. 252
Angelic salutation, Jan. 144 ; Mch.
450
Angelo (S.), Castle of, Mch. 230 ;
My. 379 ; Ju- 66
Angels bear the body of a saint,
N. 542, 594 : bear the souls of
saints, Jan. 56 ; F. 341 ; Ju. 76 :
comfort martyrs, Jan. 5, 333 ;
My. 55;Ju. 145, 190; Jly. 52S;
Au. 243 : deliver martyrs, Jan.
124, 200 : doubtful appearances
of, My. 115 ; Ju. 80 : protect a
child, Jan. 127 : same as monks,
Ju. 99 : shelter saints from sun
and rain, F. 50 ; Ap. 355 : sing
to a child, F. 83 ; N. 315 : sing-
ing of, heard, Jan. 187, 244 ;
F.^ 51, 83, 382 ; Mch. 30, 58,
468 ; O. 229
Angelus, the, Mch. 452 ; Jly.
343
Anger, no escape from, Jan. 308 :
to be conquered, Jan. 352 ; N.
220
Anglesea, Norse attack on, Ap.
213
Anglican Calendar, errors in, Jan.
99 ; Ju. 294 ; S. 203
Anglo-Saxon poetry, F. 273 ; My.
348
Animals, saints and, Jan. 31, 33,
282, 287,288,384; F. 85, 181 ;
Mch. 12, 14, 35, 460; My. 15;
Ju. 125, 337 ; Jly. 22, 262; Au.
6; S. 9; O. 94-6, 211-13, 229,
423 ; N. 68, 491
Anna-Comnena, historian, Au.
135
Annunciation, Feast of, Mch.
450-2 : Order of, F. ill
Ant-hill, monastery likened to,
O- 53.3
Antichrist, N. 251
Antidoron, N. 473
Antioch, see of, F. 1-3 : threat-
ened with chastisement, Jan.
362, 401
Antiochian schism, F. 280 ; Jly.
99-105; D. 57
Antiphonal singing, F. 2 ; Au.
362 ; D. 89
Antipodes, N. 571-2
Antipopes, Ap. 88; My. 121-2,
352 ; Ju. 64-7, 382 ; Jly. 375,
632-4 ; Aug. 202 ; S. 354-6,
391-2
Ants, F. 340
Antwerp Cathedral wrecked, Jly,
214-18: heathenism at, D. 8
Aphrodite, symbols transferred to
saint, Jly. 4S6
Apiarius, case of, D. 304-5
Apocryphal Acts of Priscillianists,
Ap. 147 : Acts of Martyrs [see
Acts, fabulous) : Books con-
demned, N. 488 : Letters of
Constantine, S. 448
Apollinarian heresy, My. 165 ; S.
457; O. 613
Apology of Apollonius, Ap. 224 ;
of Justin, Ap. 179; of Quad-
ratus, My. 383
Apostasy of bishop, F. 6
Apostles, Church of, at Cologne,
*-
-44
368
Index of Subjects.
Mch. 281 : Feasts of, Jan. 370 ;
F. 393-5 ; My. i-io, 93 ; Ju.
139-43; 419-54; Jiy- 546-53 ;
Au. 253-60; S. 323-5; O.
671-8; N. 593-8; D. 226-34,
307-10: separation of, Jly. 348
Apostolic constitutions, N. 507 ;
D. 266 : title of, S. 24 : volume,
an, My. 163
Apparitions, My. 115; O. 215,
494. 571-2, 573; N. 18
Appeals to Rome, O. 306 ; N. 207
Appetite, ravenous, Jly. 11
Applause in church, My. 133
Apple from Paradise, F. 177 :
given to Christ, Ap. 116
Apples miraculously produced,
F.308
Aquileja, battle of, Mch. 486 ;
D. 101-2
Arabia, Church in, O. 650-1 ; N.
515-25 : divisions of, N. 514
Aran, Isle of, Mch. 378 ; S. 133;
N. 190-2: visit of Bishop of
Ardagh to, Mch. 384-7
Ararat ascended, Jly. 356
"Archangel of Monks," title of,
Jan. 24
Archdeaconery a road to perdition,
Feb. loi
Ardennes, Forest of, S. 39 ; N.
79
Ardstraw. monastery founded, Au.
251
Arenaria, Jan. 285-6
Arian, explanation of faith refused
to, N. 291 : heresy, Jan. 12, 16,
126, 183-6, 267-8, 334, 400, 404,
423 ; Feb. 93, 278-80, 433-4,
446-7; Mch. 174, 213, 314-19,
371, 407-8, 412-13, 492-5;
Ap. 64, 73, 113, 183-4; My-
30-53. 74. 129, 132-8, 183,317,
319-20; Ju. 41, 69-70, 164,
165, 285-7 ; Jly- 310-16, 354-6,
399-402, 632 ; Au. 26, 387-9 ;
.S. 248-9, 292, 351-7; O. 119,
287-90 ; 496-8, 721 ; N. 48-53,
58, 164, 245, 498, 510, 547;
D. 63, 66-7, 69, 74, 78, 81,
85-91,93. 149. 191-7,225,299:
saint, S. 248-9; O. 496-8; N.
48-54
Arians, persecution by, Jan. 12-18,
90, 223, 404 ; F. 281, 466-7
Mch. 174, 213, 371, 407-8
Ap. 64, 73, 184; My. 319-20
Ju. 69-70, 286-7; Jly- 310-16
400-3, 632 ; Au. 389 ; S. 352-6
O. 287-90, 496, 721 ; N. 51-3
164, 245 ; D. 69-70, 194-5
persecution of, Au. 26 ; O. 606
S. 248-9 ; N. 510
Arians, Semi-, Feb. 2S0 ; Mch.
314-18, 492-3; My. 127; Ju.
69-70
Ark of Noah discovered, Jly. 357
Arm of executioner becomes rigid,
S. 37, 44 : of saint broken, Ju.
247; Jly. 262: of saint pulled
off, S. 141
Armagh founded, Mch. 301 : lay
usurpation of, Ap. 106 ; N. 87,
91-2
Armenia, conversion of, S. 442
Armorica, ancient extent of, Mch.
288
Arrow pierces S. Theresa's bowels,
0.371
Arrows, martyrdom by, Jan. 285,
304 ; Ap. 37, 73 ; Ju. 361 ; Jly.
530 ; O. 556 ; N. 38-9, 465 :
marvellous. My. 1 15: symbol
of, Jan. 305; Jly. 531; S. 10;
o. 414. 556
Artifices in war, Ju. 405
Artistic bishop, N. 469
Asceticism and sensuality, Aug.
320, 352 : extraordinary {set
Austerities) : moderation in,
Jan. 69 : obedience better than,
Jan. 69 : should be secret, Jan.
374
Ash-tree of S. Kenelm, Jly. 427
Ass bites a lawyer, S. 128 : deter-
mines boundaries, N. 160 : dis-
covers a spring, D. 54 • kills a
wolf, D. 21-2: restored to life,
Jly. 690 : restores its shoes, Ap.
32 : saint rides, O. 583 : symbol
-> <
Index of Sitbjects.
369
of, Ap. 32 ; My. 261 ; Jly. 690 :
the body regarded as, O. 508
Asses obey a saint, O. 513
Assistant saints in extremis, D. 28
AssumptionofB. Virgin, All. 141 -3
Athanasian Creed, My. 340
Attic honey, D. 28
Attila, invasion of, Jan. 48, loi ;
Ap. 158-9; Ju. 23; Jly. 635;
S. 103, 153
Augustinian Canons, F. 105
Austerities, extraordinary, Jan. 12,
30-1, 72-80, 222, 253 ; F. 32-3,
225-6, 256, 298, 369, 427, 445,
453; Mch. 275, 373, 426-7; Ap.
17-24, 25; My. 323, 392; Ju.
320-1 ; Au. 318, 320, 327 ; S.
161, 174, 254; O. 188, 206-8,
474, 488; N. 351, 527, 534,
558, 560, 587, 604, 606; Appdx.
66
Austrasia, kingdom of, F. 25
Avalon, Isle of, Jan. 5
Axe, emblem of, F. 343 ; Ap. 368 :
martyrdom by, F. 367 ; Ap.
367, 371; My. 419; Ju. 172,
376
B
Babe boiled in caldron, O. 634 :
found in eagle's nest, S. 140 :
required to announce its parent-
age, N. 313
Babelmandeb, Straits of, forced,
N. 523-4
Babies, miraculous production of,
N. 601-2
Bacchantes beat saint to death, Ju.
257
Bacchus, hymn to, N. 53
Badon, Mount, battle of, Jan. 441
Bagaudae, insurgent, S. 330-1 ; N.
629
Baker saint. My. 336
Balla, monastery founded, Jan. 20
Ballads incorporated in lives of
saints, O. 421 : used as texts,
My. 349
Bamberg, see founded, Mch. 53 ;
Jly. 377-8 ; S. 29
Bamborough, siege of, Au. 398
Bandage falls from heaven, Jly. 36
Bangor (Irish) founded, My. 142-3:
restored, N. 87, 89
Bangor (Welsh) founded. My. 142:
destroyed, N. 196: massacre at.
My. 390
Banker saint, O. 348
Banner of S. Wilfred, O. 315 :
symbol of, Ju. 406
Baptism administered by Christ.
Jly. 529: by father. My. 125:
by immersion, Jly. 63 : death
after, S. 48 : doubtful, N. 599 :
enforced, D. 60 : erroneous
form of, N. 570- 1: in a cloud,
Mch. 158: in blood, Ap. 175;
Au. 270; O. 118; D. 100:
its nature, Jan. 2 : miraculous
light at, F. 443 ; Au. 269, 279;
S. 270: of heretics, Au. 16, 75 ;
S. 220-2; O. 688-92; N. 378,
370
Baptismal Creed, My. 140 : cus-
toms, Au. 361
"Bara," title of, D, 105
Barathnun, imprisonment in, Jan.
124; ,S. 289-91, 445; O. 626;
N. 15, 335
Bards, Ju. 1 14, 239; O. 291 ;
Appdx. 167
Bark, books made of, Mch. 471
Barking, monastery founded, Mch.
446 ; O. 281-2
Baronius, errors of, Ju. i ; Jly.
135. 137, 205-6, 321, 356; Au.
78, 108, 223 ; S. 100, 385 ; O.
50 ; N. 224, 563
Barrel, saint born in, D. 120:
saint lives in, F. 445
Barrenness cured by abbot, N.
203
Basilisk, Ju. 430
Basin, symbol of, Jly. 497
Batavia ceases to be an island, O.
538
Bath, a cold. My. 323 ; Ju. 35 :
hot springs at, My. 285 :
► *-
-► A
370
Index of Subjects.
marvellous effects of, Jly. Ii :
miraculous, D. 26 : rarely used,
0.445
Baths, martyr condemned to, N.
504
Bayac, monastery founded, Jan.
96
Beam, martyr crushed under, Jan.
339 : miraculously lengthened,
223 ; O. 282
Bear, Jan. 243, 376 ; F. 85, 181 ;
Mch. 459; Ju. 75, 362; Jly.
679 : and saint, Jan. 243 ; F. 85,
181; Mch. 459; Ju. 75; Jly.
262; S. 47, 122; O. 211-13,
229, 423 ; N. 491 ; D. 412 :
carries loads, Mch. 459; S. 47,
122-3 : defends virgin, D. 412 :
discovers a mine, S. 95 : martyr
exposed to, Au. 330 ; S. 258 ;
O. 229 ; N. 459 : splinter
plucked from foot of, F. 85 ; Ju.
75 . .
Bear-baiting forbidden to monks,
My. 271
Bearded virgin saint, F. 348 ; Jly.
488
Beards forbidden, N. 584
Beasts, exposure to, Jan. 120, 277,
278, 284 ; F. 4-5, 346-8 ; Mch.
III-13, 114; My. 237, 244; Ju.
14, 17.336; Jly. 679; Au. 115,
162, 179,330; S. 302; 0.276-7;
N. 459 ; D. 300
Beatific vision, Mch. 151
Beating into virtue, N. 490
Bedcover of fur, O. 36; of mouse-
skin, Jly. 83
Bed-curtain given as clothing, O.
729
Bed not slept in, O. 214 ; N. 550 :
of iron, martyrdom on, Jan.
440; F. 176; My. 418; Jly.
678; Au. no; S. 179; O. 133
Beefsteaks, why underdone, O. 71 1
Beer dedicated to Woden, O. 420;
N. 497 : foams miraculously, O.
431-2 : miraculously increased,
O. 580
Bees brought to Ireland, F. 291 ;
Mch. 14, 224 : keeping of, in
Brittany, Mch. 225 : sign of
election. My. 79 : swarm on
saint's mouth, Ap. 65 ; Au. 42 ;
D. 76
Beggar saint, Jan. 233 ; F. 220-4
Begging forbidden, Jly. 462
Beghards, the, Jly. 339 ; Au. 41
Beguines, Order of, U. 207
Belgrade, relief of, O. 599
Bell, Jan. 19, 366, 468; Mch. 223,
225, 226,248; My. 144; Ju.92,
112; Jly. 40; Au. 6, 9, 13; S.
6; N. 154: arrests a massacre,
S. 6 : indicates site of monas-
tery, Jan. 19; N. 154: made
by a saint, Au. 9, 13 : made of
butter, Jly. 40 : multiplies itself,
N. 154: serves as a baby's bottle,
Au. 6
Bells ring miraculously, Mch. 21 1 ;
My. 149; S. 52; O. 67, 576;
N. 62, 68, 154
Benedictine Order, attempt to
suppress. My. 296
Benefices given to bastards, D.
162: given to children, Ju. 173;
Jly. So-7; S. 161 ; N. 113, 116-
17 ; D, 71 : given to laymen,
N. 398; D. 162
Bereavement, comfort in, O. 4S3
Beresynth, an idol, Ju. 337 ; Au.
230
Bergamo, churches built at, S. 49
Bernicia, kingdom of, O. 230,
234
Berytus, legal school at, Jan. 389 ;
Ap. 12
Beverley Abbey founded. My. no
Beziers, siege of, Au. 46
Bible, use made of, Jan. 88,
95 ; ^^y- 304: written by Alcuin,
My. 276. See also Holy Scrip-
tures
Bier miraculously shortened, N
237
Bigamy allowed by Luther, D„
202
Binding books. My. 268
Bird, example from, F. 243 : re-
-+ *
» 4-
-*
Index of Subjects.
371
stored to life, O. 16 : sings to a
dying saint, N. 456
Birds and saints, F. 85, 385, 448 ;
Mch. 345, 502; Ap. 56, 132,
171 ; My. 145, MS ; Ju. 29,
238, 372; Jly. 15, 22; Au. 6,
321 ; O. 6 ; N. 456
" Bishop of Bishops," title of, Au.
Bishoprics given by kings, Ju. 49,
134, 163; Jly. 19, 20, 117,372:
hereditary claims to, F. 322 ;
Ap. 106 ; N. 87, 91-2
Bishops, adulterous, Jly. 156, 401,
402; O. 159; N. 313, 385; D.
30, 242, 249, 251 : and women
to be avoided, Jly. 523: apos-
tate, F. 6 ; N. 48 : avaricious,
N. 291 : beat emperors, D. 30:
beat their clergy, O. 160 ; D.
34; Celtic, Appdx. 30-1: co-
adjutor, first instance of, Jly.
94 : connive at murder, N. 184:
consecrated by Christ, S. 378 :
criminal, Mch. 20 ; My. 266 ;
S. 5, 41 ; N. 52, 313; D. 249:
cruel, Au. 47 ; D. 45, 292 :
deceitful, N. 543 : desert their
sees, F. 40; My. 118, 185 ; Ju.
57. 259; Jly- 279; -'^- 126,243;
O- 434,. 573. 709; N. 232, 313,
338 : displaced by kings, Mch.
20: dress as laymen, N. 141 :
drunkards, S. 284 : elected by
parliament, D. 264 : envious,
F. 64 ; German, character of,
Mch. 180-1 ; My. 266-7 ; J"-
49, 63; S. 30, 282-6; N. 184,
211 : guilty of murder, Ju. 49:
incite to murder, D. 1 10: in-
solence of, Jly. 377 ; S. 283 ;
U. 30, 40, 42-3, no: jealous
of their rights, Mch. 180; N.
207: kick nobles, D. no:
laymen elected, F. 13 ; My.
299 ; Ju. 283, 336 ; Jly. 682 ;
I). 75 : luxurious, S. 30, 126,
282-4; N. 141 ; D. 32, 35:
married, Jan. 44, 58, 182 ; F.
13, 81 ; Mch. 173, 457; Ap.
VOL. XVI.
8, 38, 41, 140, 141, 318, 363 ;
My. 125, 414, 416, 223, 271,
281, 355, 359-66; Ju. 337, 401,
420; Au. n, 12, 103-4, 139,
248 ; S. 70, 376 ; O. 10, 290,
645, 699 ; N. 206, 346, 414 ; D.
304 : nepotism of, Ju. 6 ; D.
36-7 : ordained by force, Jan.
14; N. 245 : perjured, D. 393-4 :
pomp of, S. 30, 282-6 : popu-
lar election of, F. 13, 86; My.
14 ; N. 246 ; D. 74 : pride
of, D. 391 : rapacious, Mch.
180-1 ; Ju. 6 ; Jly. 372, 373,
374; S. 126, 243 ; O. 142, 145,
449; N. 116; D. 31-5, 38-41 :
rebuke kings, My. 335, 413:
regionary, F. 183; Mch. 208;
Ap. 342; S. 122; N. 59, 84;
D. 274 : resign their sees, F.
24, 49, 186; My. 135; Ju. 56;
S- 39; O. 617 : sell benefices,
D. 35-6 : shameful tricks played
on, Jly. 405 : treacherous, N.
542-3 : turbulent, Mch. 20 ; Ju.
47. 360; Jly. 42; S, 126, 312-
314; O. 159-60; N. 231, 250;
D. 30, 40, 94, 391 : under can-
onical age, Jly. 24, 87, 377 ; Au.
189, 191 ; O. 2, 3; N. n4,
1 16-17; D. 71, 246: warlike,
Ju. 49, 360; Jly. 42-3: whip
old women, S. 126
Black Forest, Ap. S5I
"Black Joan," D."76
Blackberries, Mch. 70
Blacksmith saint, F. 447
Blasphemy, temptation to, A p. 8
Bleeding, N. 410 : relics, S. 164-5 ;
O. 63, 68, n6; N. 12
Blessed, the Isles of the, D.
123
Blessed Sacrament, delight in re-
ceiving, S. 403 : devotion to,
Jan. 142; F. 175, 195; Mch.
154; Ap. 79, 119-20; My. 68,
105 ; Ju. 174, 216, 225 : mule
adores, Ju. 18S ; recourse had
to, Mch. 142 ; My. 103 : visions
concerning, Jan. 197 ; Mch.
2 A
► <-
*-
-^4
37^
Index of Stibjects.
238 ; Ap. 78, 80 ; Au. 30 ; O.
570 ; N. 400
Blind saint, F. 244, 258 ; Mch.
489 ; Ju. 241 ; Au. 140 ; S.
Blindness conducive to medita-
tion, F. 20 : miraculously
healed, Mch. 14, 332 ; N.
455 : inflicted, O. 485
Blood, Council of, Jly. 221
Blood, drinking, Jly. 267 : earth
turned to, S. 52 : effervesces,
O. 116: exudes on approach of
a murderer, Mch. 449 : fossil,
N. 148-9 ; liquefies, Jly. 587 :
trickles from feet of saint, N.
136
Bluebottle, the pet of a saint, O.
709
Blue-devils, O. 213
Blue veils, Jly. 109
Boar indicates site of monastery,
Jan. 282 ; Mch. 248 : king
transformed into, S. 440 : saint
protects, Jan. 282 : turned to
stone, N. 315
Boar-hunt, Jly. 502
Boasting, saintly, O. 595
Boat breasts stream, Jan. 86 ; O.
323 ; N. 258 : follows the ship,
Ju. 245 : manned by angels, Ju.
150: saints exposed in, My.
239 ; O. 721 : symbol of, My.
238 ; S. 74
Bobbio founded, N. 500
Bodkins thrust through ears, Ju.
177. See Skewers
Body floats against stream, O. 56 :
multiplies itself, Jan. 96 ; Mch.
95 j Jly- 426 ; O. 656 : regarded
as an ass, O. 508
Boedeken founded, O. 128-9
Boiling of body to obtain the
bones, N. 184, 443 : water,
martyrdom in, F. 174-5
Boldness before kings, D. 62, 82,
97.
Bolivia, missions to, O. 21S-20
BoUandists, S. 265, 377
Bonse Memoriae, on tombs, O. 705
Bonds, the Cross the strongest of,
F. 112
Bonhomme de Fatonville, O. 708
Bonosus, heresy of, D. 408-9
Book floats, N. 337 : miraculously
kept dry, Jan. 24, 467 ; O. 655 ;
Appdx. 178 : of Life, Jan. 125 :
tied to a stake, F. 65
Books borrowed and returned, F.
250 : brought to England, Jan.
168, 170: importance of, N.
552
" Boots and Belly," F. 370
Boots, torture of the, O. 155
Borromeo family, N. 113- 15
Bosham founded, O. 307
Boswell, an ecclesiastical. My. 325
Bough, saint floats on a, Au. 182
Bow and quiver, symbol of, Mch.
208
Bowels unwound, Ju. 20
Bowl, saint sails in a silver, Ju.
35 ; Jly- 625
Boy confessors, F. 83; Ju. 139,
291-3; Jly- .323; N. 322-5 :
girl changed into, O. 655 : given
a benefice, S. 161 (see Bishops
under age) : killed byjews, Mch.
447-9 ; 461-6 ; Ap. 221-2, 248-
249. 250, 381-2; Jly. 592 ; Au.
279; O. 597; N. 21 ; Appdx.
202 : martyrs, Jan. 124-5, 246-
247, 370-1 ; F. 147-8, 150, 156-7,
164-7, •71-4. 262, 358; Mch.
447-9, 461-6; Ap. 221-2, 248-
24'^,373.38i-2;My.i6o-i, 18S-
191, 244, 428-30; Ju. 5, 17, 207,
220, 377; Jly. 592; Au. 143,
158, 162, 223-4; S. 98-100, 103,
229, 326 ; O. 226-7, 471-3, 597 ;
N. 21; D. 69; Appdx. 202:
pope. My. 351 : restored to life,
S. 261 ; I). 66-7
Bracelet given by an angel, S. 94
Bramble conceals tomb, F. 38
Brazen bull, martyrdom in, S.
319
Bread changed into chips, S. 241 ;
N. 347, 426 : changed into
pearls, N. 409 : changed into
->■*
^4-
-►4
Index of Subjects.
Z12>
roses, Mch. 121 ; Ju. 217 ; Jly.
87 ; S. 164, 241 ; N. 425-6 :
changed into stones, Jan. 61 ;
S. 139; O. 249: chokes Earl
Godwin, O. 340 : cures the sick,
S. 163 : from heaven, Ap. 115 ;
N. 16 : unleavened, Ap. 246
Breakwater, miraculous, Ju. 57
Breasts cut ort", Jan. 85 ; F. 137 ;
Ap. 208 ; xMy. 95 ; Ju. 77, 146,
349; S. 321 ; O. 698; D. 27:
emit light, O. 17S : three
breasts, Appdx. 193
Breath, intoxicating, Au. 40 :
vari-coloured, Ap. 63
Bremen, diocese united to Ham-
burg, F. 68, 98
Brentford, battle of, O. 328
Brethren of Our Lord, O. 125-8
Bretwalda, title of, F. 406 ; Au.
68 ; O. 232, 244
Breviary, errors in, Ju. 306 :
Franciscan, Jly. 32
Brian, title of, D. 221
Briars, saint rolls in, Mch. 390
Bribery at Rome, O. 334 ; N.
207-8, 353, 361, 367 ; D. 248,
251, 25s, 256
Bridge-building, Jan. 145 : mir-
aculous. My. 205
British refugees, Ap. 169; Appdx.
24-27, 88-110: saints, Jan. 5-7,
28,44, 57 ;F. 140, 190,238-41 ;
Mch. 51, 69, 214-15, 274,437-9;
Ap. 71, 185-6, 200-2, 260, 364 ;
My. 16-20, 137, 215-16, 239-42,
417 ; Ju. 35-7, 57, 155, 190,
203-4, 294-9; Jly- 1-2, 39-40.
140, 146-9, 697-8 ; Au. 6-8,
82-6. 181, 345-6; O. 176-7,
476, 616, 620, 646-7 ; N. 186-
197. 318, 599-600; j:). 13-16,
128, 160, 180; Appdx. I-119,
159-326.
Brittany, Celtic Church in,
Appdx. 51 : migration into,
Appdx. 24-6, 87-119, 159-326.
Broken heart, death from, Aj).
112 ; D. 171
Brothel, virgin consigned to, Jan.
319; Ap. 360; O. 626; D.
II
Brucheion, O. 514
Brunanburgh, battle of, Jly. 1 12
Brunswick, conversion of Duke
of, S. 298
Brychan, family of, Ju. 36; Jly.
146-8 ; Au. 6-7, 181 ; O. 178
Buddha as a Christian saint, N.
562
Buffalo, Jly. 15
Bull, brazen, martyrdom in, Ap.
136; My. 66; S. 319: baiting
forbidden, N. 127 : emblem of,
N. 591 : fight, excitement of,
Au. 146 : saint gored by, Jan.
120; Ju. 17 : saint tied to, N.
590-1
Burial alive, martyrdom by, Aji.
357 ; N. 237-8 : rites, Au. 363:
to the waist, S. 46
Burning of heretics, N. 236
Butler, Alban, distorts facts, O.
4S9
Ci^SARiAN process, Ap. 217; Au.
401
Calatrava, Order of, F. 30
Caldron, martyr immersed in, F.
174, 317 ; Jly. 20 ; O. 265.
S^e also Oil and Pitch
Caledonia, extent of, Ju. 108
Calextin schism, O. 594
Calf restored to life, O. 653
Call to preach, My. 157
Caltraeth, battle of, O. 647
Calumnies against bishops, N. 52
Calvinists, conversion of, Jan.
446-57; Ju. 227, 484: doctrine
of grace, My. 338 : violence of,
Jan. 142; My. 243, 312; Jly.
212-50, 385-98
Calw, family of, N. 62
Cambrai, see founded, O. lo
Camel weeping, S. 400
Campine, conversion of, S. 276 ;
N. 79
*-
^
-44
374
Index of Subjects.
Canada, missions in, Jly. 733-88
Cancer, saint suffers from, Jan.
69, 461 ; F. 112; Ap. 193; Ju.
148; O. 126, Appdx. 172.
Candle brought from heaven, O.
655 : held by dying, Mch. 184:
light, reading by, Au. 14: lights
miraculously, Jan. 51, 109, 288,
461 ; Ap. 355 ; Jly. 168; S. 162 ;
O. 209, 434, 576, 654 : not ex-
tinguished by wind, Jan. 461 ;
F. 361 ; Ap. 355: sets fire to a
pillar, Jly. 125-6: symbol of,
Jan. 163; F. 49, 214
Candlemas, F. 35-6
Candles as symbols of joy, Jan.
17 : borne in procession, Jan.
17, 159; O. 177: on festivals,
Jan. 97 : on altars, Mch. 242;
Jly. 166 : used as tokens of
faith, O. 289
Cane, letter concealed in, Jan.
429
Cannibals, mission to, N. 595
Canon of Scripture, S. 411
Canonisation l)y imperial orders,
Mch. 284 : popular, N. 24S,
414; D. 269
Canonry given to a child, Jly.
341 ; S. 161
Canons excommunicate their
bishop, N, 124-5 : unruly, My.
223, 28 r; Au. 11; N. 124
Canossa, Henry IV. at, My. 374
Canterbury taken by Northmen,
Jly- 643
Cap and bells, symbol of, Au. 270
Capitulary of S. Aklric, Jan. 97
Captives, Christian, My. 97 : libe-
rated, Jan. 50, 414, 471 ; O.
429 ; N. 254 : ransomed, Jan.
470-1 ; F. 85, 98,227; O. 432
Capuchins, devotion of, N. 135
Caravans plundered, N. 516
Cardinal, child made, My. 82
Cardinal's hat, Jly. 344
Cards blessed, N. 628 : l^urned,
0.591
Carinthia attacked by Huns, N.
572: conversion of, N. 572-3
Carmelite Order founded, N. 527:
in England, My. 226
Carnival forbidden, N. 140
Carols, O. 108; D. 7
Carpenter saint, Mch. 484 ; D.
228, 231
Carpenter's son saint, S. 132, 134,
292
Carthusian Order founded, O.
142-9: houses in England, N.
397
Cashel, archdiocese, Ap. 107
Caste, F. 115, 118
Casturis, sack of, Jan. loi
Catacombs, Jan. 285-6, Feb. 249 ;
Au. 35, III ; S. 451
Catalepsy, Jly. 534-41 ; S. 158-9
Catasta, F. 176
Catechetical School, Alexandria,
Jly. 167; N. 168, 371, 544; D.
24
Caterpillars, D. 317
Cathari, heretics, Mch. 75 ; N. 431
Catholic, title of, D. 93
Cats, Ju. 249 : symbol of. My. 305
Catskin, myth of, Jan. 292 ; My.
207, 211
Cattle passed through split trees,
D. 7
Cave, exploration of, Au. 217 :
mysterious maid in. My. 211 :
temple, D. 54
Celestine Order founded. My. 296
Celibacy, clerical, F. 344, 427,
455 ; Ap. 123, 237. 312; My.
281, 286 ; Ju. 62, 389-99 ; Au.
II, 103-4; S. 137-8, 170-1 ; O.
351 ; N. 206, 214, 360 ; D. 263,
265
Celle, La, founded, Jan. 114
Cells, desert of, Jan. 29
Celtic Church, peculiarities of,
Appdx. 40-43, 43-6 : reduced
to Roman obedience, Jan. 94 ;
F. 217; Mch. 342; Appdx.
50. 54
Celtic usages, Jan. 93-4 ; My. 349;
N. 493-4; Appdx. 31-41, 43-
47. 54-
Cenobites and Anchorites, D. 56
^
-* i
*-
-> 4
hidex of Subjects.
175
Censer, F. 196 : not to be touched
by a woman, O. 638 ; self-
kindled, Jan. 152
Censius, disturbances caused by,
^ My. 366 ; N. 475, 479
Ccntule founded, Ap. 352
Centurion flies persecution, Jan.
42 : martyrs, Jan. 42 ; O. 719 :
saint, F. 38
Ccrfroid, monastery founded, N.
485
Cerinthus, heresy of, D. 310
Chablais, conversion of, Jan. 446-
457
Chain-mail, F. 356
Chains fall off, Jan. 59 : of S.
Lawrence, N. 166: of S. Peter,
Mch. 514; Ap. 2; Ju. 431 ; S.
153
Chair kissed, O. 459 : of Bede,
My. 409 : of Cainech, O. 279 :
of S. Peter, Jan. 275 ; Ju. 431 :
torture of red-hot, Jan. 440 ;
Ju- i.3> 17
Chalcaion, image of Ciirist in, F.
95; Ap. 43-4; My. 177-8, 420;
Au. 107
Chalice and Host, symbol of, D.
28
Chalons, battle of, N. 380 :
sacked, Jly. 440
Chancel not for laymen, D. 94
Chariot-races, Jan. 42 ; Au. 144-6
Charity above fasling, N. 57 :
disgusting, O. 484: dishonest,
F. 32; Ap. 354; S. 163, 240;
N. 347 : examples of, Jan.
29. 135-6, 349-56 ; F. 24, 243,
2S1 ; My. 117, 202, 203,411-
412; Jly. 5-7, 15, 43, 288, 335,
336; S. 84, 130, 346-7, 425;
O. 73, 88, 198, 730; N. 132-4,
242, 405, 425-7, 450-2, 490 ; I).
65, 153, 181, 281 : heals, i, 376 :
lack of, F. 233-6 : Order of,
Mch. 167 : profuse, Jan. 23 ;
F. 16; S. 412; N. 292, 329,
333 : the supreme rule, D. 285 :
to the dead, Jan. 23
Charlemagne claims ecclesiastical
supremacy. My. 270-1 ; Ju. 163:
coronation of, Ju. 160: extends
the Creed, Ju. i6'5-9,: reforms
the Church, My. 266-72 : wives
of, Ap. 275-6 : Jly. 262-3
Chartreuse, La Grande, Ju. 378 :
founded, Ap. 9 ; O. 146-9 ; N.
396-7
Chasuble sent from heaven, D.
116
Cheerfulness, Jan. 374
Cheese fancied by monk. My.
155 : turned to stone, O. 640
Chertsey, monastery founded,
Mch. 446 ; O. 281
Chess-boards burnt, O. 591
Chest, oak, My. 104
Chester - le - Street (Concester),
bishop's see at, S. 51
Chicken not meat, N. 409
Chilblains, Jan. 451 : saint suffers
from, Ju. 458 ; O. 461
Child Jesus crowns a saint. S 55 :
held by saint, Mch. 183; Ju.
188 ; .S. 360 ; N, 323, 325, 349-
350
Child, dedication of, Jan. 46-8,
126, 248, 306 ; Mch. 243, 508 ;
My. 263 ; Jly. 606, 703 ; N.
342 ; D. 105, 172, 281, 283,
420 : eaten by mother, Jan. 210 :
given benefices, Ju. 173 ; Jly.
86; S. 161; N. 113, 116-17;
D. 71 : kiss of, cures blindness,
Jan. 112: lesson of, Ju. 243:
proclaims a bishop, D. 75 : set
in the midst by Christ, Ju. 465
Child saints, F. 147, 150, 156,
164-7, 171-4 ; Ap. 24 ; Jly.
359; Au. 221-3; y. 12, 35, 70.
See also Boy saints
Childbirth, angel assists at, D.
120 : assistance in, Jly. 123 :
saints assists at, O. 220-1
Children, loss of, O. 198 : love of,
Jan. 456 : voices of, Au. 333
China, missions to, N. 674
Chocolate brought from heaven,
Au. 323
Chorister whipped, N. 24
► 4-
*-
-> 4
37^
Index of Subjects.
Christ baj>tizes, N. 66 : in per>on
ministered to, O. 5S9 : letters
of, O. 679 : portraits of, O.
681-4: present with sufferer,
Ju. 147 : relatives of, O. 562-4,
674-6 : serves at mass, D. 72
Chronicle of Radbod, N. 592
Chrysostom, persecution of adher-
ents of, Jan. 164
Church, acclamations in, Jan.
431 ; F. 279 : monolithic, N.
348 : of stone, Jan. 169 : of
wood, F. 326 : represented as
a wife, F. 436-7 ; Ap. 109 ;
S. 91 : supported by SS. Fran-
cis and Dominic, O. 79
Churches destroyed by edict of
Diocletian, O. 566, 601
Churching of women, F. 36
Ciborium, Jan. 26 ; N. 400
Cicero, study ui, S. 453-4
Cinderella myth, My. 10
Circumcelliones, Au. 370
Circumcision and baptism, Jan.
1-2
Circumstantial evidence, Ju. 254
Citations before God's- throne,
Mch. 501
Cities submerged, O. 618
Clairvaux founded, Au. 198-9
Clares, Poor, Mch. 182, 184 ;
Au. 123
Classic studies, evil of, S. 453 ;
N. 404
Claves Confessionis S. Petri, My.
184-5 ; N. 75- 5S1
Clean saint, S. 255
Cleanliness, revelations concern-
ing, O. 185
Clementine Recognitions, O. 154;
N. 507
Clergy, disorderly, N. 121 : fopp-
ish, S. 457 ; D. 141 : immoral,
^"- 333 ; D. 267 : luxurious, N.
257
Clerical celibacy, F. 344, 427,
455 ; Ap. 123, 237, 312; My.
281, 286, 355, 359-66; Ju. 62,
389, 399; Au. II, 103-4 ; S.
137-8, 170-I ; O. 351 ; N. 206,
214, 360 ; D. 263, 265 : cox-
comb described, D. 141 : im-
munities, D. 349-55, 385 : inso-
lence, Au. 104 : pride, N. 435
Cloak used as boat, Jan. 358 ; Ap.
32 : divided with a beggar, N.
242, 261 : given to a beggar,
N. 423 ; D. 337 : miraculously
sent, N. 71
Clockmaker saint, Ap. 120
Clonfert founded, Mch. 333 ; My.
222 ; Au. 38
Clonmacnois founded, S. 134
Clothair, descendants of, N. 72 :
marriages of, Au. 13 1 -2: murders
his nephews, S. 106
Cloud miraculously dispersed, O.
730-1
Clovis, conversion of, F. 179-81 :
descendants of, O. 157
Clown, charity of a, My. 410
Clown's cap and bells, Au. 270
Club, brains dashed out with, Jan.
305 ; My. 9 ; Au. 160, 1*75 ;
S. 247 ; N. 586 : of Hercules,
U. 8 : of the Devil, S. 163
Coachman saint, F. 18
Coals carried, Appdx. 175 : mira-
culously kindled, N. 337 : saint
laid on red-hot, Ju. 146
Coat, an old, Ap. 113: of arms,
Jly. 272 ; Au. 326 : of mail
worn by saint, F. 356-7 ; Ju.
362 ; N. 349, 587 : one between
several scholars, Ap. 50
Cock and hens, Jan. 248
Cock and mouse wake a saint, O.
709
Code of K. Ina, F. 186 ; Jly. 169
Coffin filled with food, S. 50 : used
as a bed, N. 527
Coinage, new, in England, F. 356
Coincidences, Ap. 71
Coins, hung round neck, Jan. 47 :
of S. Eligius, D. 4 : Roman
silver, Jly. 17
Cold endured, O. 493 : steel, effect
of, Au. 163 ; S. 400
Coldingham, monastery founded,
Au. 280-1
«r-
■**
Collar of S. Alexander, Mch. 513,
515
Collect, F. 260
Colobium, a linen tunic, Jan.
340
Cologne, crucifix at, S. 52-3: riots
at, D. 43-5 : school at, Mch.
127, 130: tomb of Albertus
Magnus at, Mch. 127, 130
Colonna family. My. 291
Comb of S. Majolus, My. 156:
symbol of, S. 3, 4
Cumbe, a valley, N. 348
Communion by angels. ^^^ Angels
Communion, delight in, S. 403 :
frequent, Jan. 374 ; F. 435 ; Ju.
216; Jly. 346 ; Au. 87 : given by
Christ, Jan. 197 ; Au. 403 :
miraculous, Jan. 197, 348 ; Ju.
152, 268; Au. 403; N. 323:
in both kinds, Ju. 147 : of
children, Au. 279 : of saints,
doctrine of, N. 2-8: under one
kind, O. 593
Como, filling up of Lake, O. 697
Compasses, Jan. 1 13
Conception of B. V. M., Jly. 340
Conclaves, law of, My. 295
Concord between abbots, Jan. 12
Concubinage at Goa, N. 615
Condate founded, F. 452 ; Mch.
372
Conferences, religious. My. 391
Confession, frequent, O. 218:
general, Jly. 459 : in Celtic
Church, Appdx. 76 : of women
not to be heard in a room, Ap-
10 : seal of, My. 229, 234-5 :
thrice a day, D. 107 : to a
layman, Jan. 343
" Confession," a church, My. 246
Confessions of S. Augustine, O.
369
Confessors, easy-going, Au. :?2 :
indiscreet love of, O. 364-5,
368 : sensil)le, Au. 322
Confirmation administered on the
road, O. 40 : by priests, N. 617 :
neglected, S. i88 ; proper age
for, N. 79
Conflagration miraculously extin-
guished. N. 153
Conge d'elire, N. 397-S ; D. 344
Consanguinity, bar of, Mch. 16 :
in Ireland, N. 90
Consecration by a single bishop,
Jan. 189 : of bishop in dream,
Jly. 607 : violent scenes at, Jan.
Consistory, papal, bribery in, N.
207
Constantinople, pope sent to, My.
396-7; Ju. 273 ; Au. 271: see
of, claims equality with Rome,
Ap. 156 ; Jly. 96
Constitutions of Clarendon, D.
354
Constraint, injudicious, Ap. 266 :
to Christ's service, F. 409
Consubstantial, Mch. 314, 316,
492
Consumption, saint dies of, Jan,
69, 173 ; Feb. 380
Contemplation, long, impossible,
Jan. 30
Contest for bishopric, O. 21
Continence, example of, Mch.
124-5 '• of married bishops, Jan.
182
Conventuals and observants, O.
589
Conversion, gradual, Au. 349 :
sudden, Jan. 55, 81 ; F. 106,
195,371 ; Mch. 377; My. 381 ;
Ju. 58, 262, 489, 490 ; Jly. 291,
701 ; Au. 21, 252, 355-9; S.
139 ; O. 74, 252
Convicts, work among, Jly. 460
Cook becomes a bishop, Au. 10 :
honour paid to a, S. 244 :
roasted. My. 230 : saint, Ap. 59;
Au. 10: S. 240-5: tidiness in,
Au. 10
Cookery, good, Au. 342
" Copronymus," nickname, O. 451
Coracle, My. 219, 222 ; jly. 28,
434 ; Au. 6 ; N. 162, 192
Corbie, new, founded, Jan. 35 ;
F. 60 : old, Jan. 34, 397
Cords shaken off, O. 624
-»<
2>7^
Index of Subjects.
Corea, missions to, N. 675
Cork, see founded, ,S. 377
Cornish l)ishopric, Appdx. 49 :
saints, Jan. 44-6, 57 ; F. 273,
448; Mch. 69, 214-15, 274,
437-9; Ap. 71, 364; My. 239-
42, 417; Ju. 35-7, 57; Jly.
146-9, 697-8; O. 639, 657-9,
717 ; N. 186-95, 314 ; D- 273 ;
Appdx. 149-322.
Corn-mill, king grinds a, Mch.
214
Coronation at Aix, Ju. 163 ; Jly.
371 : at Rome, Ju. 66, 160;
Jly- 375
Coronet laid before crucifix, N.
418
Coroticus, letter to, Mch. 285, 301,
437
Corporal, miraculous recovery of,
D. 17
Corpse, carried by saint, Jly. 54-5 ;
O. 598 : designates murderer,
Jan, 417 . .
Corpus Christi, festival instituted,
Mch. 145 ; Ap. 78-87
Council of Agde (506), D. 113
Aix (782), Jan. 436 : (799), Ju.
159 : (860), D. 201
Albi (1 1 76), Mch. 74
Alexandria (231), O. 687 : (320),
F. 433 ; My. 30-3 : (362), F.
280 ; My. 49
Altino (S02), Jan. 436
Antioch (252), N. 372 : (264),
Jly. 93 ; O. 694 ; N. 377 :
(269), O. 695-6 ; D. 300 :
(270), N. 377: {331), Jly.
401-2 : (341), My. 41 ; Jly.
354-5: (361), F. 279; Ju.
285: (379), F- 282; Mch. 321
Aquileja (381), Jan. 273; D. 80
Ariminium (359), Jan. 184 ;
Mch. 317-1S; Ap. 48, 183;
My. 48, 359 ; S. 356
Aries (314), S. 232; D. 192:
(451), 0.646; (454), 0.646;
N. 570: (475). Au. 387; S.
415-16
Autun (1077), O. 143
Council of Basle (1441), Jly. 32;
0.594
Bayonne (1300), D. 108
Beaugency (1104), D. 254
Berne (577-80, N. 385
Bourges (11 13), N. 213
Bourgos (10S9), My. 365
Caerleon (529), Mch. 12.
Capua (391), I). 408-9
Carthage (222), O. 686-7 : (251),
S. 220: (254), S. 221 : (255),
Au. 17 ; O. 689-90: (256),
Au. 17; S. 221, 223; O.
690-91: (404), Au. 370:
(410-11), Ap. 89, 90, 138;
Au. 372 : (416), Ap. 139 :
(417), D. 302: (418), Ap.
140 ; D. 303
Chalcedon (451), F. 300-2, 337,
368 ; Mch. 232 ; Ap. 102-5,
152-8 ; Jly. 96, 99, 102-5 ; S.
156, 258; O. 614; D. 57-S
Cirta (412), F. 259
Clermont (1095), Mch. 451 :
(1130), Ju. 65
Cloveshoe (742), S. 31 1
Cologne (346), My. 183, 334
Constance (1414-18), O. 593
Constantinople (360), Jan. 185 ;
Mch. 318: (381), Jan. 126;
F. 282-3 ; Mch. 174, 321 ;
O. 510: (389), My. 134:
(394), Jly- 354; N. 510:
(448), the Latrocinium, F.
333-7: (450), Ap. 24: (553),
O. 613; N. 498: (680- 1), Jan.
137-8; F. 343; My. 175;
Ju. 41 M4: (746), F. 94-5:
(754), F. 419; N. 584: (815),
Ap. 45 : the dedication (394),
Jly. 384; N. 510
Epaone (517), Mch. i6 ; O.
119
Ephesus (431), Jan. 307, 425-
432;F. 335; Au. 27; S. 152 :
(444^ S. 152, 157: (447), S.
152: (449), F. 335-7; Ap.
148; S. 155-7
Frankfort (794), Jan. 436; F,
423 ; My. 273 ; Ju. 164
n-
Index of Subjects.
379
Council of Fritzlar {lll8), Ju- 59
Friuli (791 or 796), Jan. 436
Holmpatrick (1148), N. 94
Iconium (232), S. 220; O. 688
Jiinque (524), Jan. 18
Lateran (313), S. 232: (649),
N. 295: (1076), My. 369-70:
(1099), Ap. 292-3 : (1 179).
N. 332: (1116), D. 280:
(1215), O. 92-3; U. 293
Leptines (742), O. 354
Liege {710), N. 79: (726), N.
79
Llanddewi Brefi (519-69), Mch.
11-13; N. 194, 327-S; D.
128
London (1076), My. 365 :( 1 137).
N. 359-60
Lyons (517), O. 119: {1245),
O. 32,34: (1275), Mch. 152 ;
Jly. 345; Au. 124, 252; O.
35
Macon (585), F. 405 ; O. 159 ;
D. 425 : (624), Mch. 500
Maghlene (630), Ap. 225
Mainz (1049), Ap. 239-40:
(1069), F. 391
Mantua (1053), Ap. 242-3
Marly (678), O. 28-9
Metz (863), D. 202
Milan (355), Jan. 183 ; My.
45-6 ; Au. 388-9 ; S. 352 :
(347), My. 43: (451), Ap.
24: (1565), N. 118: (1569),
N. 123: (1573), N. 127
Nicrea (325), Jan. 264, 273 ; F.
434; Mch. 208; My. 33-6;
Jly- 354, 399-400; S. 1 70- 1,
448-9 ; N. 50 ; D. 66-7 :
(787), F. 420-3; Mch. 216,
250; Ap. 70; Jly. 186; N.
223-4
Northampton (1176), Ap. 11
Oak, the (403), Jan. 406-7, 421
Orange (441), N. 345, 570:
(529), Au. 378; N. 346
Orleans (511), F. 87: (558),
Mch. 16: (549), Mch. 259;
D. 63
Oxford (1222), D. 108
Council of Paris (551), Mch. 259 ;
D. 63 : (577), F. 403-5 ; N.
384: (824), F. 423: (1072),
My. 364: (1092), Ap. 123:
(1 104), D. 255
Poitiers (iioo), D. 250
Rheims (625), N. 306 : (630),
S. 91: (995), Ap. 311: (1049),
Ap. 239-40: (1094), 1). 245:
(II 19), Ju. 60: (1148), F.
27
Riez (433), N. 570
Rimini. See Ariminium
Rockingham (1095), Ap. 282-8
Rome (341 ), J u. 69; (382), My.
164; D. 80: (430), A p. 94:
(503), Palmary, Jly. 451-2:
(680), F. 242-3: (721), N.
395 : (732), N. 579-80: (799),
Jly- 157
Saragossa (380), Ap. 146; D.
271
Sardica (347), Ap. 176; My.
42-3, 183; S. 172
Seleucia (359), F. 279 ; Mch.
317
Sens (601), N. 493: (1140),
Au. 208-10: (1247), D. 108
Seville (590), F. 447: (619),
Ap. 66
Sidon (390), D. 58
Sinuessa (apocryphal), Ap. 345,
348-9; Ju. 160; Jly. 452;
D. 416
Sirmium (351), Mch. 492; S.
355
Sutri (1046), M. 352
Taragona {1235), Jan. 358
Toledo (589), F. 447 ; Ap. 64 :
(633),Ap. 66; D. 115: {654),
D. 218: (656), Mch. 451
Trent (1545-63), Mch. 148
Troyes (1104), D. 254
Trullo, in (680), Mch. 451 ; S.
137 ; D. 313
Tyre(335), My. 38-9; S. 171-2:
(3S8), My. 38-40
Vaison (444), Jly. 687
Vcrcelli (1050), Ap. 240-1
Verulam (430), Jly. 683
->1
*-
->^
80
Index of Subjects.
Council of Vezelai (1 146), Mch.
211
Vienne (1112), N. 212-13
Whitby (664), Jan. 94 ; Mch.
24 ; O. 299-300 ; N. 393
Worms (1076), My. 368-9; Ju.
224 ; All. 104
Councils, absurd scene in, My.
370: violent scenes in, Mch.
317 ; Ap. 45
Coverlet given to sick, Jan. 376
Cow, image of, touched by pil-
grims, F. 51 : injured, F. 7 :
martyr gored by, Mch. 112: of
hermit, Jan. 364 ; N. 191 : re-
stored to life, Mch. 332, 438 :
suckles a wolf, Jan. 364
Cowardice, charge of, N. 244: in
monk, O. 216
Cowardly saint, D. 213
Cowherd saints, Jan. 146 ; F. 273,
448; N._I7
Cowl, luminous, S. 107
Cows stolen, F. 19, 199
Cracow taken, Ju. 405
Cradle, betrothed children laid in
same, N. 416-17 : of S-. Herve,
Ju. 245 : silver, N. 416
Crane attacks eyes, N. 203-4. See
Eyes
Craving in pregnant women, Mch.
70
Creed, Apostles', Ap. 367 ; Jly.
348-9 : Baptismal, My. 140
Crib, Christmas, O. 108-9 ! D.
276
Crocodile killed by saint, D. 436
Cross, apparition of, Mch. 314 ;
My. 316; Au. 180-1 : borne in
procession, F. 439, 440 : child
led before, Jly. 171 : emblem
of, F. 278 : falls from heaven,
Jly. 119 : hung round neck, Jan.
47 : invention of. My. 56-63 :
miraculous impression of, Mch.
460 : of fire, N. 352 : of S.
Andrew, N. 598 : same as the
Little Horse, F. 276, 278 : sign
of, Jan. 44, 163, 286, 314 ; F.
278, 368, 431 ; S. 100, 236-9,
270 ; O. 175 : the true, F. 360,
436; My. 56, 63-4; Au. 133,
170; S. 236
Cross-roads, superstitions about,
D. 7
Crowbar, martyrdom by, Ap. 200
Crowberry wine, N. 415
Crown, Edgar forbidden to wear,
My. 2S6 : obtained by prayer,
Ju. 412 : of gold given to a
church, Jan. 123 : of thorns pre-
ferred to gold, Ap. 379: of
thorns, Au. 403 : symbol of,
Aug. 327, 404
Crucifix, bleeds, N. 224 : Host put
into, S. 52-3 : miraculously re-
stored, N. 630-1 : moves arm,
N. 459, 554: moves head, Jly.
291 : of S. Rosalia, S. 54 :
olive-leafed, O. 151 : on stag's
head, S. 319: sends message,
S. 52 : speaks, S. 52 ; O. 75 :
the Book of .Saints, Jly. 340
Crucifixion, martyrdom by, Jan.
41, 277, 470; F. 147-8, 329,
394. 432 ; Ap. 112; My. 55,
332 ; Ju. 3, 409 ; N. 107, 597 :
supposed day of, Mch. 454
Cruelty of Spaniards, O. 219
Crusade against Albigenses, Au.
48, 52, 186 ; .S. 60-1 1 D. 292-4 :
against Christians, O. 582, 594 :
against Moors, My. 422 : of
Frederick II., N. 435-7 : of
S. Louis, Au. 291-302, 307-10;
O. 99 : preached, Aug. 21 1 -12 ;
N. 352 : second, Au. 21 1 -13
Crusaders, Au. 213, 219
Crusading Club, S. 60
Crushing, martyrdom by, Mch.
491 ; Ap. 199 ; Ju. 19
Crypts at Hexham and Ripon, O.
304
Culdees, Jan. 191
Cunedda, family of, Appdx. 23
Curates wear rectors' cast-off
clothes, O. 36
Cures, miraculous, only tempo
rary, O. 591-2
Curia, charges of, Au. 89-90
-*
p ^-
Index of Subjects,
381
Curse of saint, O. 7U ", xi. 591 ;
Appdx. 36-7, 173-8
Cursing well, Appdx. 170
Custody of the eyes, D. 56-7
D
"Dadsisas," a death-wake, F.
365
Dagrinnis founded, Jan. 19
Dcilmatia united to Hungary, Ju.
404
Dalmatic assists parturition, O. 83
Dalmatics allowed to deacons, Au.
344 : green, N. 83
Damietta, siege of, O. 99-100
Dancing forbidden, N. 553-4: reli-
gious, Au. 7, 260 ; N. 177-8; D.
312 : saints, S. 297
Danegeld Tax, O. 342
Danes die of dysentery, N. 592 :
ravages of, F. 56-8; Mch. 18,
59, 94-5 ; Ap. 230
Darkness, spiritual, N. 532
" Darling's Mug," S. 420
David's, St., founded, Mch. 11;
N. 154
Deaconesses, S. 34, 114; O.
173-5 ; N. 226 : saints, S. 34
Deacons, aged fifteen, D. 262 :
saints, Jan. 312-15, 331-4; ^^•
7-12, 46, 305 ; Mch. 515; Ap.
272; Ju. 361 ; Jly. 127, 286,
500; Au. 98, 109-10, 160-1 ;
S. 251-2, 261, 361 ; O. 127-30,
135, 476-7, 725 ; N. 230-2,
335, 412 ; D. 296-9, 405 : seven
to be with a bishop, O. 643 :
the Seven, Jan. 133, 346; Ap.
130; Ju- 55; D. 323
Dead called on to speak, D. iSi :
mass for, Au. 363 ; D. 100 :
prayer for, Jan. 79 : restored to
life, Jan. 109 ; F. 284, 307, 352 ;
Mch. 71, 398; Ap. 374; My.
hi; Ju. 5, 475; S. 36, 189,
260, 261, 264 ; O. 67, 305,
619; N. 240, 246, 315; D. 67
Death foretold, N. 94 : in prayer,
Jan. 57; S. 35, 44, u?. 146,
185 : preservative against, O.
711 : wake, F. 365
Deceased brother's wife, marriage
with, Jly. 189-90 : wife's sister,
marriage with, O. 1 19
Decretals, false, N. 321
Dedication, Celtic, Appdx. 67
Deer indicate site of monastery,
O. 138-9 : trace boundaries of,
O. 439
"Defender of Church," title of,
Jan. 157
Deformed saints, F. 109 ; Mch.
369 ; Au. 6
Deformity in answer to prayer,
F. 116
Deira, kingdom of, O. 230, 234
Delay in answering death-call, F.
307
Demon, curious vision of, Ju.
253 , i
Dempster, errors of, S. 35
Denain founded, Jly. 31
Denmark, conversion of, F. 60- 1,
70-1 ; N. 28-30, 32, 39
Denys (St.) built, Jan. 49
Deo Gratias, My. 259
Deorham, battle of, Appdx. 20,
180
Depression, spiritual, N. 532
Derceto, symbol of, Jly. 486, 625 ;
S. 258
Derry founded, Ju. 92
Derwentwater, hermit on, Mch.
356
Desertion of abbey by abbot, Jan.
95 ; Ap. 1 23 ; Ju. 238 : of see
by bishop, F. 40; My. 118,
185 ; Ju. 57, 259 ; Jly. 279 ;
S. 126, 243; O. 434, 573, 709;
N. 232, 313, 338: of wife. My.
409 ; S. 46
Deserts of Egypt, Jan. 29 : of
Gaul, Jly. 14 : monasteries in,
Jan. 224-5
Despair, temptation to, Jan. 444 :
F. 200 : warning against, Jan.
433
*-
382
Index of Subjects.
Deulz, monastery founded, Mch.
281
Devil, assaults of, Jan. 253-4 ;
O. 509 ; N. 249-50 : at table.
My. 144 : beats a saint, S.
163 : carries a saint, Ju. 352 :
deuiands adoration, N. 251 :
invades the bowels, N. 250 :
invited into a saint, F. 191 :
sits on a collect, O. 371
Devils carry off a king, Jly. 206 :
caught by the nose. My. 288 :
dispersed jjy holy water, O.
373 : drown a buy, Ju. 474-5 :
expelled, O. 425, 515, 707 :
hideous, Ju. 475, 481 : jerk a
saint into fire, O. 419 : pull
chair from under saint, O. 466 :
red-hot, N 237 : silenced by
mockery, Jan. 211
Dexter, forged Chronicle of, F.
9, 45; Ap. 181, 250, Tpo, 325,
359; My. 238; Ju. 304, 367,
464 ; Jly. 183
Diamonds fall from mouth, My.
104
Diana, statue washed. My.- 247
Dice burnt, O. 591
Die, S., founded, Ju. 260
Diet of Worms, D. 38
Dinner borne by angels, O. 710
Dionysian mysteries, O. 196 :
writings, O. 190-4
Dionysus Zagreus, O. 197
Dioscorus of Alexandria, Ap. 149
Diptychs, Jan. 420; N. 4S7
Dirceto, Jly. 4S6 ; S. 258
Director in nunnery, Ju. 39 : un-
suitable, My. 103
Dirty saints, Ju. 339, 417; Jly.
590; Au. 190; O. 510, 560;
N. 584 ; D. 400
Discalced Carmellites, N. 528-38.
Disciples of Christ, Ju. 77; Jly.
282 ; S. 376 ; N. 20, 64, 66,
226 : of S. Paul, Jan. 53, 359 ;
F. 449 ; Ap. 121 ; Ju. 386 ; Au.
Discipline, employed, O. 216 ; N.
14.4, 558-60 : given to ladies.
N. 435, 446-7, 454 : relaxed,
O. 352 : strictness of, O. 216-7 ;
N. 205, 214
Discord seen as filth, F. 398
Discouragement, Au. 341
Disembowelment, Mch. 495 ; Ju.
20
Disentis founded, Jly. 281
Disfigurement of saint, F. 363
Disguised female saints, A|). 254 ;
O. 200
Disgusting acts of penance, Jly.
702 ; S. 255 ; O. 459 ; Appdx.
66
Dishonesty in saint, F, 12, 16
Dismemberment, Jan. 162 ; F.
411; Mch. 504; Jly. 260; S.
115. 24!^. 339. 439; O. 118 ;
N. 152
Dispensations, sale of, Ap. 51 ;
Jly. 526 ; N. 365
Distaff, Ju. 218
Diuma, Bishop, Appdx. 43
Divorces granted by Pope, F. ill
Doctor illuminatus, Ju. 500
Doe, hermit nourished by, Ju.
337 > S. 9 : measures bounds,
O. 439
Au.
12
J )
Dog, Y. 44, 371 ; Jly.
42, 157 ; N. 463-4
Dog-headed saint, Jly. 554
Dogs, martyr cast to, N. 15
Dolphin, Jan. 90 ; S. 385
Domestic life, its sanctity, Jan.
223 : love, F. 14
" Domine quo vadis," Jly. 37
Dominican Order, Mch. 122, 125;
Au. 46-58 : in Scotland, Appdx.
'97.
Domitian, saint related to, My. 106
Donations, forged, F. 326 ; D.
414
Donatists, F. 259 ; Mch. 238 ;
Ap. 90-4 ; Ju. 34 ; Au. 366 ; .S.
231-2; O. 54
Dorchester, see founded, Jly. 169 ;
D. 19
Double (second-self), Jan. 342 ;
Ju. 185; O. 215 : monastery, F.
18, 272, 338, 382; 415, 428;
•f<-
Index of Stibjects.
3^3
Mch. 175; Ap. 165 ; My. no;
Au. 281 ; S. 339; O. 445; N.
70, 71, 156 ; D. 113; Appdx.
1078
Dove decides site of monastery,
O. 432 : indicates tomb, N. 307:
oil brought by, O. 9 : rests
on head, Jan. 299 ; F. 13 ; Mch.
127, 238 ; My. 76 ; Ju. 90, 604 :
soul appears as, O. 727 : symbol
of, O. 414, 537, 556 : vision
of, Mch. 237; S. 181-2; O. 373,
569, 58 1 : whispers in the ear,
F. 13 : wine brought by, O. 633
Dover, riot at, O. 335
Dragging to death, N. 568
Dragon, F. 191 ; Mch. 226 ; Ap.
373; Ju. 35; Jly-4«7. 624; S.
95; O. 25, 26, 258, 417, 436,
516,632,633; N.25, 162,600;
Appdx. 182
Dreams, Jan. 166 ; F. 8, 435 ; Ju.
34, 90; O. 216, 569, 571
Dress, gay, S. 269; N. 209-10;
D. 4-5
Dropsy, My. 425 ; D. 102
Drowning, half, F. 122; martyr-
dom by, Jan. 44, 1S2 ; F. 411,
412 ; Mch. 8, 57, 468; Ap. 14,
38, 61. 176; My. 247; Jly.
127, 162, 166, 168; N. 508:
recovery from, 5, 36 ; N. 165 :
rescue from, Jan. 235 ; Appdx.
169, 177
"Druidical" monuments, Mch.
224, 298
Drunkenness in monastery, Jly.
606
Dryness, spiritual, F. 204; Mch.
88
Dublin, suffragans of, N. 333 :
under Canterbury, Ap. 107 ;
Appdx. 61
Ducks, marvellous, O. 670
Duel prevented. My. 259; Jly.
542
Dull child, F. 99
Dumb ox, Mch. 128
Dumbness healed, Ju. 23S, 251 ;
Jly. 134, 261 ; N. 253
Dung-heap, saint hung over, Jly.
137
Dunwich, Bishopric, Mch. 163
Duplicity in saint, Jan. 473
Durrow founded, Ju. 92
Dysentery, N. 592
E
Eagle guides a saint, O. 212:
indicates site, Jly. 12 : protects
from sun or rain, F. 139, 242 ;
My. 184; Ju. 80: symbol, D.
310
Eagle's nest, babe in, S. 140
Ears and nose cut off, O. 321 : of
wheat, three, F. 415
Earth dissolves into lilood, S. 52 :
jerks a boy into heaven, O. 615 :
opens and swallows persecutor,
Appdx. 173 : turned into bread,
S. 181
Earthen bowl, Jan. 308
Earthquake, O. 517, 615, 689
East Saxons, Jan. 91 ; Appdx. 14
Easter, difference about. See
Paschal controversy
Eccelin da Romano, Ju. 185-6
Echternach, dancing procession
at, N. 177
Ecthesis of Heraclius, N. 294-6
Edict torn down, S. 97
Edmund the Magnificent, My. 254
Education of boys, Appdx. 266
Eggs received as fees, S. 97
Eichstiidt founded, Jly. 180
Einsiedeln, pilgrimage to. My, 104
Eirenarchs, N. 87
Election contested. My. 120, 291 ;
Ju. 3S3; Jly. 449; S- 137; O.
636-8 : ol Bishops, Jan. 299 ;
F. 12, 363, 370; Ap. 313;
My. 108, 109; Ju. 156, 311 ;
Au. 316 ; O. 2, 606 ; N. 24, 76,
246, 306
Elephants, O. 666
Elevation in rajiture, Mch. 142 ;
S. 297
-*4
384
Index of Siibjects,
Eleven thousand virgins, Jly.
i9.v7
Elfreda, story of, Jly. 200
Elgiva, story of. My. 283 ; Jly.
114
Elias of Cortona, Ju. 187 ; Jly.
336
Elmet, kingdom of, Appdx. 22
Elmo's lights, Jan. 376, 462 ;
Ap. 207 ; Ju. 21
Elopement from convent, F. 23,
43
Eloquence, F. 11 : useless without
unction, Ju. 226
Elves, world of, N. 571
Ely, chapel of S. Zita at, Ap.
356 : founded, O. 444
Ember season, O. 351
Emperor forbidden admission to
church, Jan. 361 ; D. 97
Empress martyr, N. 541 : saint,
Mch. 52-4 ; Au. 164-74
Endura, Mch. 80
Enfants trouves, Jly. 473
England, conversion of, O. 477
Envy among hermits, Ju. 338
Ephesian Church, O. 64
Epilepsy, saint invoked for, Ju.
334
Episcopus Episcoporum, O. 691
Epistles of S. Paul, Ju. 408
Equivocation, F. 370
Ermine mantle, O. 186
Eruption on face, My. 321
Etchmiadzin founded, S. 447
Etna, My. 163 ; Jly. 172
Eucharist, called Never -failing
Food, F. 398; carried, Mch.
6 ; S. 410 ; sent to encourage
war, N. 522 ; vision of, O. 570
Eucharistic sacrifice, F. 82
Eudoxia, Jan. 163, 408
Eulogise, Jan. 49 ; F. 5 ; Ap. 4 ;
O. 279 ; N. 473
Eunuch saint, J. 166 ; Ju. 55
Eusebians, My. 70 ; Ju. 336
Eusebius, Feci. Hist, of, N. 488
Eutychianism, Jan. 154, 309 ; F.
243, 300-2, 332-7, 451 ; Mch.
63-4; Ap. 150; Ju. 273; S.
152, 157, 190, 322; N. 488;
D. 56-8
Evangelical demonstration of
Eusebius, N. 48
Everlasting gospel, Mch. 138; Jly.
331. 338
Evil speaking, Jly. 8
Excommunication, ceremony of,
Ju. 245 : of emperor, My. 370,
377, 380, 406 ; Ju. 264 ; Jly.
55, 375 ; N. 431,437, 488; D.
96 : of king, My. 112 : of monk,
Jan. 155 ; of Pope, N. 488 : pen
dipped in chalice to write, N.
293 : saints under, Jly. 48, 49,
82 : unseemly, O. 43-5
Exercise, against evil thoughts,
Au. 349
Exposition of children, N. 312
Eye, loss of, F. 16 : plucked out,
Mch. 50; .S. 170, 392 ; O. 181
Eyelids pierced, Jan. 416
Eyes cursed by saint, O. 731 :
government of, N. 109 ; D. 56 ;
. healed, N. 236, 2S8 : opened,
N. 303: sore, N. 109; D. 107 :
transfixed, O. 181
Face shines, N. 535 (see Illumi-
nation) : stained, Jan. 147
P'acts alleged, S. 278
Faith, self-devotion for, Jan. 425
Falcon in hunting, Mch. 502
False accusations, .S. 167, 194,
264, 338; N. 313 : decretals,
N. 321
Famine, relieved, Jan. 23 ; F. 1 1 ;
Mch. 40
Fanaticism and immorality, Ju. 62
Faremoutier founded, S. 91
Fame, hermits in, Mch. 344, 354,
441 ; My. 96, 327; Ju. 339
Fasting communion, Jan. 407 ; Ap.
4 : excessive, rebuked, F. 324 ;
Mch. 373 : extraordinary, F.
22, 324; Ap. 228, 303, 373,
*
Index of Stibjects.
385
426; S. 254, 295; N. 123;
Appdx. 178 : on Sundays in
Lent, N. 215 : true purpose of,
Au. 331
Faust and Marguerite, S. 388
Fear of death, F. 9 ; S. 102 ; D.
72
Feather trimmings, O. 183
Fees, exaction of, F. 332
Feet, hung up by, D. 7 : sink into
stone, F. 354 ; O. 649 : trans-
fixed, O. 155 ; N. 228
Felicissimus, case of, S. 205, 214,
217
Female society, S. Dominic's lik-
ing for, Au. 43
Females disguised as monks,
Ap. 250 ; O. 200
Fens of Cambridgeshire, Ap. 166
Ferry-boat, Jan. 33
Feudal tenures. My. 119, 229 ; S.
26
Fever cured, Ju. 199; Jly. 133:
patron against. My. 106; .S.
326 ; N. 163 : transfer of, F.
102
Fig-tree, F. 263; My. 186
Figurehead, Jly. 649
P'ilioque, Ju. 165
Finchale, My. 330
Finger of the Baptist, Ju. 359-60 :
of S. Helena, Jly. 699
Fire carried in the lap, Mch.
164; My. 17; Ju. 337; N.
192, 337 ; Appdx. 175 : column
of, N. 302 : devil throws saint
into, O. 417 : falls from heaven,
Ju. 342 : martyrdom by, Jan.
381 ; F. 7, 232, 316, 330, 348,
411, 412, 444 ; Mch. io8, 207,
222,468; Ap. 13,37; Ju. 411;
Jly. 205, 207, 210, 278; S. 89,
100, 185, 249, 273 ; O. 321,
322, 569; N. 211,218, 335-45^.
519: miraculous escape from,
F. loi : miraculously lighted,
Jan. 188 : power over. A]).
28: predicted, N. 214 ; sacred,
Mch. 71 ; saint invoked against,
O. 561 : used against tempta-
tion, Jan. 434 ; F. 23, 290 ; Ap.
206 ; Ju. 364 : vision of, F.
384
Fireworks, O. 213
Fish and book, Jan. 368 : and key,
Jan. 161 ; Ju. 224 ; S. 188 ; O.
434: and ring, Jan. 192; Ju.
438 ; S. 7 : bone of, removed,
O. 463 : carries a saint, S. 358,
385: sent on Friday, S. 123:
swallowed, O. 340 : tails. My.
390
Fisherman saint, F. 191 ; Ju.
419
Fishes created, Ap. 60 : sermon
to, Ju. 188
Flame, perpetual, F. 21 : saint
rolls in, Ap. 206 ; vision of, F.
355
Flaying alive, Au. 257 ; N. 169
Flea, Jly. il
Flesh, subdual of, Jan. 31
Fleur-de-lys, Ap. 352
Flies cursed, Jly. 291 : torment
saint, Mch. 511
Flirtations, O. 360
Floods, F. 119
Fly, Ju. 249 : carries off Host, D.
46
Flowers for altar, Ju. 244 ; S. 182 :
of Paradise, N. 229, 503
Fontanelle founded, Jly. 517
Fontenay founded, Ju. 132
Fool's cap assumed by a saint, O.
583
P^oolprints in rocks, F. 354 ; My.
385; Ju. 56, 75, 431 ; Jly. 37;
S. 40
Forest life of hermits, Jan. 325 ;
Jly. 13, 14, 124, 490; N- 491
Forests of (Jaul, Jly. 13 : of Ger-
many, Jly. 359: of Pomerania,
Jly- 59
Forged decretals, N. 321 : docu-
ments appealed to. My. 26
Forgery of Acts. See Acts
Forgiveness asked of the dead,
N. 156 : of trespasses, Jan.
352
Ff)rk marks boundaries, O. 640
->*
386
Index of Stibjeds.
Formulary of cursing, Appdx. Ii8:
of election, P'. 102
Forty days' fast, Jan. 74 ; S. 254 :
hours' exposition. Jan. 454 : mar-
tyrs, Mch. 204
Fossils, D. 21
Foulques of Marseilles, Au. 47
Foundlings, Jly. 473
Fountain flows with oil, S. 378 :
miraculously elicited, Mch. 47 ;
Jly- 36, 37 ; S. 192, 260, 264,
274; O. 179, 209, 418, 486,
487; N. 66, 68, 70, 139, 15^,
177. 179. 50S; Appdx. 174:
sacred, D. 7
Four Articles of Utraquists, O.
592
Fours, saint crawls on all-, F. 256
Fowl follows saint, O. 617
F"ox, Jan. 249 : choked by a
duck, O. 670
Frati Umiliati, N. 121
Fraticelli, Jly. 339, 704 ; O. 589
P'rauds, pious, F. 12,40; Mch.
257 ; Ju. 298 ; O. 5, 12, 122
Freedom, marvellous, Mch. 20
F"ree-will, My. 268 ; Ju. 354 ; S.
415
Friday, Good, Mch. 451 ; O. 589:
head-washing on, F. 359
Friendships, Ap. 268; Ju. 354;
Appdx. 162
Fringe of hair, D. 61
F'rivolity, Jan. 462
Frogs, Jan. 369 ; Mch. 505 ; Ju.
224, 246
Frost, Jan. I15 : martyrs exposed
to, Mch. 204 ; N. 228
Frost-bites, My. 190; Jly. 52
Furnace, Au. 18, 1 16 ; N. 218
Fiissen founded, S. 95
Future slate denied, O. 669
Gadfly killed, Au. 32
Galley-slaves, Jly. 461, 474
Gallician Church, independence
of, Ap. 144
Gallows, destroyed, S. 424 : man
cut down from, F. 184; Mch.
363 : sight of, brutalises, S. 424;
N. 550
Gardener saint, Jan. 34 ; F. 263,
374 ; S. 327
"Garlic king," My. 380
Garment sent from heaven, D. 27,
116
Geese follow saint, O. 229
Generosity, Ju. So
Gentleness, Jan. 288 ; F. 10, 198,
205; Mch. 374 ; O. 341, 560
Geoffrey of Monmouth, unreliabi-
lity of, Jan. 7
George of Alexandria, Ap. 306 ;
My. 319
Geraint of Cornwall, My. 350 ;
Appdx. 260
German bishops, generally bad,
Ju. 63; S. 30, 283, 286, 288:
jealousy of, Mch. 178, 180:
their pomp, .S. 30
Gheel, My. 210
Ghosts, Jan. 152, 211 ; Mch. 151,
194; S. 241,270
Gifts offered to God, Jly. 5
Gildas, Ju. 295 ; Appdx. 80
Girdle determines a site, O. 711 :
of continence, Mch. 125 : of
saint, Mch. 125, 328
Girl, young, martyr, O. 227
Gladiatorial fights abolished, Jan.
S : shows, Au. 145 ; O. 166
Glass, Jan. 442: goblets, Jan. i.
24, 25 : windows, Jly. 271 ; N.
414
Glastonbury founded, Jan. 5
Gloria in Excelsis, O. 638
Glove, symbol of, V. 51
Gluttony, F. 379 ; Mch. 70, 516 ;
Au. 342 ; D. 107
Gnats, Jan. 31 : save Nisibis, Jly.
354.
Gnostics, Jan. 140 ; Ju. 408
Goat and saint, N. 193 ; bleats
after being eaten, Mch. 295 :
venerated by Lombards, Mch.
25
Golden balls, D. 65 : Horde, N.
-n
512 : mouth, Jan. 403 : speaker,
D. II
Goldsmith, Jan. 106 : saint, Jan.
95 ; Mch. 95, 343
Good Friday, Mch. 451 ; O. 589,
601
Good works like gold chains,0.282
Goose, Jan. 60, 62, 291 ; F. 181 ;
Mch. 50, 396; Jly. 264; All.
390: smell of roast, Jan. 291 ;
Mch. 396
Gospel liberty, S. 176 : of S.
Peter, O. 718 : of the Hebrews,
Jly- 511
Gospels enthroned, Jan. 427 : sold
for redemption of captives, Ju.
236 : superstitious use of, D. 7 :
volume of, Au. 116, 118, 222
Goths, ravages of, D. 77
Gouty saints, F. 442 ; Mch. 230 ;
Au. 113; D. 48
Gower, Au. 6
Grail, the Holy, S. 147
Granaries, subterranean, Jan. 365
Grand Chartreuse founded, Jan. 9
Granson, battle of, Mch. 42S
Grapes, Jan. 29
Grass sod, saint floats on, N. 27
Grate, roasting on, F. 412 ; Mch.
222; My. 418; Ju. 211; Au.
no; S. 179; O. 133
Gratzacham, Mch. 301
Gravel, saint invoked against, My.
187; Jly. 521
Greediness in monk, Mch. 51A
Greek language in Sicily, S. 54
Green path of saint, O. 281
Gregorian music, Mch. 236 ; O.
303, 501
Gridiron. See Grate
Grimsby, Au. 216
Guelf .and Ghibelline, My. 291 ;
S. 57-64 _
Guerin et Giry, Ap. 223, 227, 304,
359 ; My. 94 ; Ju. 79, 203, 207,
464; Jly. 306, 617; (). 500
Guilemites, Order of, F. 255
Guiscard, Robert, Ap. 244; My.
379
Gulls, Au. 6, 119
VOL. XVI.
H
Habit of S. Francis, 8, 297 :
worn from vow, F. 1 1 3
Hadrian IV., My. 119
Hadrianople, battle of, D. 77
Hair, cut off, S. 250 : turns white,
Jly. 352 : used for ropes, F. 238
Halbert, F. 395 ; My. 203
Hall, Bishop, My. 240
Hall converted into church, F. 311
Hallucination, N. 323, 342
Hamburg made archiepiscopal
see, F. 63
Hammer beats in head, O. 641
Hand adheres to wall, N. 163 :
amputated, Jan. 45; F. 9 ; Ju.
258 ; S. 341 : emits light, Jan.
127; Mch. 160; S. 378; O,
714; D. 221 : golden. My. 140:
held over fire, N. 413 : shaken
off, S. 141 : silver, Jan. 45
Hands and feet cut off, Jan. 45 ;
O. 118
Hanging, martyrdom by, O. 720 :
recovery after, Mch. 365 ; Jly.
23; O. 711: to Odin, Mch.
363
Hare, Jan. 147 ; Ap. 269
Harlots ordered to be whipped,
N. 120: reclaimed, Jan. 136,
156; F. 371 ; Mch. 2, 276;
Ap. 19; Ju. 130; Jly. 526;
Au. 59; O. 167-77; N. 235:
tempt saint, Jly. 598 : wealth
of, Mch. 5
Harp, Jan. 343, 365 : Kolian, My.
278
Harpers, Mch. 71
Harsh judgment censured, Jly. 426
Hat of saint exhibited, O. 5S5
Hatfield, battle of, O. 246, 477
Ilatto myth, My, 143
Hautmont founded, Jly. 322
Hawks will not peck out hawks'
'een, F. 404
Hayle, old name of, Mch. 438
Head carried, Mch. 19 ; Ju. 75 ;
Jly. 140, 281 ; O, 197, 248, 259,
2 R
*-
-^.i
*-
*
388
Index of Subjects,
472 ; N. 109 ; Appdx. 252, 258 :
cut off to preclude coronation,
N. 564 : luminous, O. 473 : put
on again, Mch. 246; N. 71,
168 : speaks after decapitation,
Jan. 45 ; O. 472 ; N. 465
Headache, saint suffers from,
Appdx. 74
Heart, blazing, F. 447; Ju. 215 :
cut, O. 411, 413 : disease of, N.
159 : plunged in that of Christ,
0.466
Heathen deity, saint inherits sym-
bols of, F. 416 : governors,
forbearance of, F. 430 : perse-
cution of, Au. 137
Heaven, many ways to, Jly. 6
Hedgehog, O. 464
Helebore, N. 245
Heligoland, Mch. 478 ; N. 173
Helios invoked by S. Patrick,
Mch. 291
Hell not considered, Jly. 141 : of
Theodoric, Jly. 179 : vision of,
Ju. 467; Jly. 316, S34; O. 374
Henoticon of Zeno, Jly. 100, 420,
449
Henry IV., Emperor, Ju. 264-6 ;
Jly. 46-51, 55
Henry of Bavaria, Mch. 264
Heraclian, revolt of, Ap. 93
Hercules, club of, D. 8
Hereford founded. My. 309
Heresy of Eon de I'Etoile, F. 27
Heretical baptism, Au. 16, 75 ; O.
688-92 ; bishops burnt, F. 294
Heretics persecuted, Jan. 421,
476-8; O. 588, 590, 598; N.
236. See also Persecution
Heriot, O. 35
Hermit elected pope, My. 292
Hermits in the East, their customs,
Jan. 29, 154, 203, 223-6; F.
250, 266; Mch. 64; Ap. 17;
Jly. 522; O. 474; D. 54: in
the West, F. 388, 453 ; Ju.
258; Au. 81 : number in desert,
Jan. 224
Hernia, saint invoked against, O.
284
Heroism of Christians, My. 342
Hersfeld founded, O. 435
Hide, martyr wrapped in, O. 625
Hildebrand, My. 357
Hildesheim, treasure of, N. 469
Hind, Jan. 288
Hive, Ap. 68
Holy water, efficacy of, O. 373 :
well, Mch. 438 ; O. 179, 180,
183
"Homo," term of reproach
" Homoousios," Jly. 355
Honesty, example of, D. 3, 5
Honey, Jan. 350; Mch. 225, 291,
471 ; Jly. 606 : martyr smeared
with, F. 359 ; Mch. 494
Horn of S. Hubert, N. 82
Horren founded, N. 108
Horse, blue, O. 669 : exchanged
for a girl, F. 98 : flayed. My.
112 : issues from cloud, S. 181 :
killed by touching a tomb, S.
183 : miraculously obtained, S
loi: of S. Columba, Ju. 125:
saint thrown by, N. 237: tamed,
O. 353 : winged, F. 288
Horse-boy made bishop, F. 24
Horse-hair shirts and sheets, N.
349-52
Horse-shoes nailed to feet, Mch.
273
Horse-stealing, S. 123-5
Horse's leg taken off, D. 9
Horses, saint torn by wild, S. 80
Hospital founded, Jan. 123; Ju.
388
Hospitality, Jan. 231 ; S. 68
Host, carried on the heart, Jan.
453 ; Mch. 7 : infant seen in,
F. 311 ; Au. 30: saint adores,
Au. 126 : sent to King of Abys-
sinia, O. 663 : symbol of, Ju.
Hot spring, saint cast into, D. 17
Household regulation, S. 404
Howling saint, O. 489
Huguenot barbarities, Mch. 495 ;
My. 243, 312 : destruction, D. 2
Human love overcome {see also
Natural affection), F, 100; Mch.
*-
-*
*.-
-*
Index of Subjects.
389
377 : sacrifices, Mch. 43, 363,
364, 410; N. 10
Humility, Jan. 18, 63, 78 ; My.
132, 194, 324, 389 ; Ju. 38, 288 ;
Jly. 507; S. 78, 81, 173: gro-
tesque, S. 28 ; O. 459
Hungary, F. 205 ; S. 20 : crown
of, S. 23
Huns, Jan. 48, 107 ; Mch. 91, 261 ;
My. 132, 194, 324; Ju. 400,
404 ; Jly. 118 ; S. 156 ; O. 540,
542
Hunting, bishop's love of, My.
288: passion for, O. 340 ; patron
saint of, N. 72
Hurons, Jly. 740
Husband and wife, mutual love,
s. 113,389, 403
Husbandman saint, F. 246, 344 ;
Mch. 114; N. 413; Appdx.
209. See Labourer
HyKna, Jan. 33
Hydrophobia, N. 177
Hymns, F. 12, 303, 368 ; D. 89
Hypsistarians, D. 117
Hyssop at the coronation, Jly. 100
Hysteria, S. 253 ; N. 242, 537
I
Ice, martyrs exposed on, Mch.
205
Iceland colonised by Irish, My.
218 : conversion of, Jly. 664
Icelandic Church, N. 413 : saints,
Ap. 313, My. 413, N. 413, D.
262
Icicles used as fuel, Au. 184
Iconoclasm, Jan. 175 ; My. 98 ;
Jly. 194; Au. 107; O. 138: in
West, Mch. 235
Iconoclastic heresy, F. 92-6, 275,
293, 386, 41S-23; Mch. 216,
249; Ap. 39; My. 98, 177,
201, 420; N. 109, 271-8, 579
Idiot saint, N. 40
Idleness, evil of, Jly. 8
Idol broken by prayer, F. 440;
Mch, 48 ; Ju. 337 : falls before
saint, N. 51, 491 : in Flanders,
Ap. 5: in Gaul, N. 26: in
Sicily, Ap. 33: spat on by
saint, Jan. 5
Idolatry, folly of. My. 190
Idols broken by martyrs, Jan. 5,
120, 163, 246; Ju. 387, 470,
481 ; Jly. 58, 98, 499 ; S. 4, 98,
179
Ignorance encouraged, Au. 124,
197, 207 ; O. 217
lUuminati, Jly. 720
Illumination in ecstasy, Jan. 147 ;
Ju. 122; Jly. S24; N. 535
Image kicks oft its shoe, O. 13 1 :
of B. V. M., My. 423 ; Ju. 365 ;
Jly. 275 ; O. 126, 131 ; N. 351,
587: of Christ, Mch. 251 ; Ap.
34, 43 ; My. 99, 177, 420 ; Jly.
194; Au. 107; O. 126, 131;
N. 273
Images, Mch. 243, 250; My. 98,
99; Ju. 170, 374, 470; Jly.
186, 194; Au. 152 : S. 52, 165 ;
O. 75; N. 538, 582; D. 95:
dressing up of, Au. 324 ; N.
537 : reverence to, N. 580, 585,
605 : saint objects to. My. 167:
saint tramples on, Au. 232 : use
of, F. 93, 416-8 ; Mch. 235 ;
Ap. 20; My. 178, 179; 0.453;
N. 622
Immaculate Conception, F. 3 1, 73 ;
D. 108
Immorality and mysticism, Ju. 62
Impalement, F. 134 ; Ju. 255
Impediment in speech, Jan. 417
Imperial placet, N. 297
Impious songs of Arius, D. 66
Impurity, spirit of, Jan. 252 ; Au.
337
Incantation, Christian worship re-
garded as, F. 298
Incarnation, F. 46
Incendiarism, Jan. 164
Incense, Jan. 428 ; Mch. 242 ; Ap.
118 ; Ju. 152
Incontinence, clerical, Ap. 55 ;
My. 223, 265
Indecent pictures in churches, N.
-*
*-
-*
390
Index of Stibjects.
123 : talk reproved, Ap. 5 ; My.
310; O. 37; D. 61
Independence of bishops, O. 691 ;
of see of Rome, Ju. 415
India, missions to, N. 610 ; D.
228
Indian cabin, Jly. 738
Indians, N. American, Jly. 733-88
Indulgences, Ju. 58, 142, 255;
Jly. 34, 129, 309, 321, 406;
N. 430
Infant offered to monastery, My.
263 : prodigy, D. 64
Influenza cured, N. 492
Ingratitude, N. 441
Ingulfs Hist, of Croyland, Au. 19
Innkeeper saint, My. 246
Innocents, lieads of Holy, O. 563
Inquisition, My. 83, 87 ; N. 429 :
at Goa, N. 615, 629 : introduced
into Aragon, Jan. 30S
Inquisitor saint, F. 45 ; O. 5S6,
587, 596;. N. 587
Insanity, saint invoked against,
My. 210
Insensibility to abuse, Jan. 222
Insight, spiritual, S. 299
" Insinuations of Divine Piety,"
N. 343
Intemperate speech, F. 258
Intercession of saints, Jan. 314,
400; F. 381 ; Ju. 152, 412, N.
7-8
Interdict, My. 1 13; S. 287
Intermediate state, O. 198
Intolerance, Mch. 61 ; My. 84 ;
Jly. 572 ; Au. 104 ; D. 85, 92-5
"Invention" of relics, Mch. 95;
Jly. 560 ; S. 12 ; O. 62, 122 ; D.
10 1. See Relics
Investitures, Mch. 225; Ap. 123,
276, 294, 311 ; My. 354, 361,
405; Ju. 263; Jly. 49, 51-2,
55-6; S. 729; N. 211-3,478
lona founded, Ju. 100
Ireland, conquest of, by Henry
II., N. 330 : grant of, by Adrian
IV., N. 330; Appdx. 61
Irish colonists in Iceland, My.
218 : girls, beauty of, N. 489 :
missionaries, F. 192, 193 ; Mch.
22, 91-3; Ap. 376; My. 1 14-6,
137. 346; ju. 280, 373; Jly.
38, 97, 1 87, 188, 261 ; N. 59,
170, 489, 570; Appdx. 41-2:
pilgrims, O. 326, 575 : recrimi-
nation, A p. 203
Iron band round body, Jan. 362 :
boots, Jly. 277: works at
Fiissen, S. 95
Issue of blood, woman with, Jly.
287
Italians given English benefices,
Jly. 341; O. 32: moral l)ack-
wardness, N. 357, 367, 553
Ithancester, Jan. 91
Itinerary of S. Peter, N. 488
James, S., leads army. My. 424
Jansenism, Jly. 477
Japanese missions, F. 141 ; N.
640-50, 675
Jaws broken. My. 428; Ju. 145,
205, 307
Jealousy among ascetics, Jan. 30
Jersey, My. 15 ; O. 617
Jerusalem, pilgrimage to, S. 153,
155, 182: taken by Chosroes,
F. 359 : Welsh visits to, Mch.
11; Ju. 34; N. 188
Jesuates founded, Jly. 707 ; O. 5S6
Jesuits forge a Veda, N. 623 :
founded, Jly. 729 ; N. 603
"Jesus" on breast, Ap. 88
Jew Pope, Ju. 64
Jewel falls inlo chalice, S. 6
Jews, accusations against, O. 596 ;
N. 224 : charged with nmrtler-
ing boys, Mch. 447, 461, 465 ;
My. 204 ; O. 597 ; N. 21:
insulting treatment of. My. 20 :
persecuted, Mch. 462 ; Jly.
592; O. 40, 586-8, 596, 664:
practice usury, Au. 290 : riots
made by, D. 234 : urge on per-
secution, O. 567, 662 ; N. 516
*-
-+i4
John the Baptist, disciples of, F.
I ; Mch. 505 : relics destroyed,
Mch. 495
Jointures founded, Ju. 257
Jordan, sacrifices to, Mch. 43
Joseph of Ariniathsea, Jan. 5
Journey, marvellous, Jan. 37, N.
166
Jovinian, S. 459
Joy, death through excessive, S. 48
Judges reluctant to sentence, Ju.
232 : who communicate, D. 92
Judgment on persecutors, F. 203:
rash, to be avoided, Jan. 356 ;
F. 192; Ju. 235; Jly.141, 142;
S. 38
Judith, Queen, Jly. 437-41
Julian bathes in blood, Mch. 319 :
martyrs under, Jan. 371 ; Mch.
408; Ap. 131 ; Ju. 234, 309,
369; Jly. 209, 210; Au. 225,
279; S. 12, 96, 179, 321 : re-
builds Temple, Mch. 319
Julian of Eclona, Ap. 140
Jumping saint, S. 295-8
Jurisdiction, My. 128
K
Kaiserwerth founded, Mch. 18
Kalends of January, Jan. 2
Keuschberg, battle of, Mch. 262
Key, Jan. 51 : of St. Peter, My.
184; N. 75, 581
Kief, Jly. 360, 367
Kiln, Jly. 531 : martyrdom in,
Au. 262
King and bishop friends, S. 13-
17 : excommunicated, S. 14 :
repulsed from church door, S.
15 : turns monk, O. 712
King's Evil, My. 16; O. 346
Kings, three, Jan. 83, 148, 151
Kirkwall minster, Au. 218
Kiss cures leper, N. 147 : ob-
jected to, F. 329; S. 351, 439
Kitchen scene, Ap. 36
Knees, impression of, O. 154 :
lumps on, O. 463 : torture of
bent, N. 335
Knife, F. 3S0 : floats, O. 433
Knight saint, Jan. 81 ; Appdx. 249
Knocking against coftin, F. 139
Labarum, Au. 180, 225
Labourer saint, Mch. 114; Ap.
209 ; N. 413. See Husbandman
Lac d'Oo, Ju. 75
Ladder, F. 209, 210
Lamb, Jan. 321 ; F. 108 ; O. 96
Lammas, Au. i
Lampreys, O. 38
Lamps for churches, Jan. 239 ;
F. 396 ; Ju. 384 : miraculously
kindled, My. 105, 152; Ju. 384
Lance, martyrdom by, Ju. 178,
252 : sacred, Mch. 263, 267 ;
S. 234
Landes, Jly. 454
Langensalza, battle of, Ju. 224
Lantern miraculously lighted, Jan.
51, 116, 288; My. 249. See
Lamps
Lapsed, case of, S. 209, 214, 217 ;
N. 544
Larbouste, Ju. 75
Las Casas, O. 219
Lastingham founded, Jan. 92-94 ;
Mch. 24
Latrocinium, F. 337
Laura described, Jan. 306 ; Mch.
64; Jly. 176; D. 56
Laus perennis, S. 339 ; N. 492 ;
D. 112
Law, saint's love for, O. 35-42 :
school at Berytus, Jan. 389 ;
Ap. 12
Lawyer saint. My. 301 ; S. 397
Lay garb assumed by bishops, N.
141
Laymen compulsorily ordained,
F. 12; Jly. 682; O. 614: in-
vested with ecclesiastical dig-
nities, Mch. 7
*-
*-
-*
192
Index of Subjects.
Laxity of bishops, N. 141
Lazare, S., College founded, Jly.
464
Lead, molten, martyrdom by, Jan.
3S; F. 317; Ju. 88; S. 12
Leaded whips, S. 246
Leaden shirt, N. 351
Leaf, saint floats on, Mch. 438
Lech, battle of, S. 19
Leeds, battle near, F. 215
Leeks, marvellous, S. 264
Le Gras, Mme., Jly. 467
Leg, hamstrung, S. 170
Legal lying, N. 235
Legates, rapacity of, N. 358
Legend, growth of, Jan. 383 ; F.
2 ; S. 399 ; N. 601 : transfer of,
D. 76
Leonine city, Jly. 430
Lepanto, battle of. My. 60
Leper saint, Ju. 147; O. 560;
Appdx. 196
Leprosy, F. 50, 87, 292, 454 ; Ap.
253; Ju. 147; Aug. 136; U.
617 ; N. 197, 424, 449
Lerins, Au. 345 ; S. 41, 414
Letter concealed in cave, Jan. 429
Letters forged, S. 247 : of peace,
S. 211: three, Jan. 176
Lettres de cachet, Jly. 474
Leuconay founded, Ap. 4
Levity, Arian, 129-30
Libellatics, S. 199
Liberius, fall of Pope, Jly- 632
Lichfield, Jan. 28 ; Mch. 29
Licinius persecutes, Jly. 257; S. 185
Liege, Ap. 78 ; N. 76
Lies, " pious," Ju. 303 ; Jly. 522
Life, value of, Au. 194
Light above corpses, Jan. 86 ; F.
-140, 311; Ju. 5, 15s; Jly. 31,
699 ; S. 18 ; O. 278 : in ecstasy,
Jan. 147 ; F. 382; Ju. 122 ; Jly.
524 ; O. 314 ; N. 55, 62 : mira-
culous, Appdx. 171 : not ex-
tinguished by wind, Jan. 461 ;
F. 361
Lights at funerals, F. 283, 413;
Mch. 305 : carried in proces-
sion, F. 2S3
Lightning, F. 414; Mch. 119:
conversion through, N. 564 :
saint invoked against, Ju. 485 ;
D. 28
Lily, Mch. 434 : grows from grave,
My. 293 ; Jly. 303 ; N. 40 ; of
Quito, My. 393
Lime-kilns discovered, Jan. 29
Lincoln founded, O. 242
Lindisfarne devastated, My. 274
Linen forbidden, O. 217 : hang-
ings of, D. 68 : pattern, N. 449 :
use of, abandoned, 0.445: white,
at communion, F. 263.
Lion and splinter, Mch. 64, 274 ;
S. 462 : defends hermit. My.
187 : saint rides on, S. 131 :
spares a hermit, D. 55 : spares
a virgin, D. 626 : symbol of,
Mch. 66 ; Appdx. 25, 337 ; S.
463 : tamed by Landgrave, N.
428
Lioness preaches, Ju. 282 : pro-
tects saint, O. 534
Lions dig a grave, Jan. 220, 383 :
in Berkshire, O. 654
Liquefaction of blood, S. 303
Lismore founded. My. 19S
Litanies used, F. 264, 409 ; Mch.
230; Ju. 157
Lithographic stones, D. 21
Lithuanians, missions to, F.
.304
Little men, saints, Mch. 2S5, Jly.
698
Liturgy, vernacular, Jan. 154
Livery, significance of, Au. 292
Lives of saints, effect of reading,
O. 359
Living truth, Au. 342
Llandaff founded, D. 15
Llandewi's Brefi, Synod, Mch. 1 1;
Appdx. 312
Loaves, petrified, Jan. 61 : symbol
of, Appdx. 24
Lobe of ear, babe suckled from,
F. 308
Lobes founded, Ju. 212
Log, man turned into a, Ju. 27
Lombardy, Mch. 96 ; N^ 580
*-
-KH
-^
Index j)f Subjects.
393
London attacked by Norsemen,
Jly. 640
Looking-glass, N. 421
Lotharingia, O. 634
Louis XL, King, Ap. 29
Love above fear, Jly. 141: feasts.
All. 365
Lovers, patroness of, Appdx. 175
Luke, S., pictures by, Y. 77
Lumbago, Au. 350 : saint invoked
against. My. 187
Lumps on knees, S. 131
Lunatics in monastery, Jan. 154
Lure, My. 419
Luther, Jly. 717
Luxeuil, Mch. 498 ; Ap. 4 :
founded, N. 491
Luxury in bishops, N. 141 See
Bishops
M
Macedonian heresy, F. 282 ; O.
607
Madeira, Jly. 384
Madman's sermon, F. 20
Madness, Jan. 154 ; Mch. 349 : in
saint, F. 166 ; Ju. 417 ; Jly. 26,
533
Mafortium, F. 430
Magic, S. 387
Magician saint, S. 387
Magyars, invasion of, S. 19, 423
Mail coat, saint wears, Ju. 362 ;
N. 587
Malmesbury founded. My. 347
Man, bishopric of, O. 498
Manichees, Jan. 140 ; Mch. 75 ;
Ap. 141 ; Au. 41, 145, 251-3,
351 ; N. 437 : invade Europe,
Au. 41 : persecuted, Au. 41
Manna in tomb, S. 65
Mantle divided with beggar, N.
242, 261 : given to, N. 423 ; \).
337 : miraculously sent, N. 71 :
used as boat, Jan. 358 ; Appdx.
32
Marlile converted to crystal, N.
338: pillar burns, Jly. 126
Marcionite martyr, F. 7
Marende, S. 40
Marnion burnt, F. 440; S. 120
Marriage, compulsory, S. 28 ; O.
65 : continence in, Jan. 52, 60,
122, 182; My. 12, 344; O.
39-65- 305. 332, .441, .532; N.
151, 161, 503 : dissuasion from,
Jan. 182 : escape from, Jan.
146, 376 ; Y. 261, 268 ; Mch.
221, 275; My. 277, 321; Ju.
213; Jly. 18, 262, 323; S. 78,
141 ; 0.426,485,531,582; N.
197, 203 ; D. 106 ; Appdx.
298 : spiritual, Jan. 52, 60 ; F.
295 ; Ap. 119; My. 344, 382;
Au. 320 ;0. 395 ;N. 342, 351,
537
Marriages, spiritual relationship
bars, N. 197 : to be celebrated
in churches, N. 133 : within
forbidden degrees, N. 90
Married bishops, Jan. 44, 58, 182 ;
F. 13, 81 ; Mch. 173,457 ; Ap.
8, 38, 41, 140, 141, 318; My.
125; Ju. 305, 337, 401, 420;
Au. II, 12, 103, 139, 248, 414.
416 ; S. 70, 376 ; O. 10, 290, 645,
699; N. 346, 414; D. 117;
Appdx. 35, 67 : clergy expelled
the choir, N. 206 : deacons, F.
288 : lector, Appdx. 55 : life,
happiness of, S. 403 : love, My.
344; priests, Jan. 3; F. 259,
337, 344; Mch. 288, 468 ; Ap.
8,41, 318, 363; My. 223, 271,
281 ; Ju. 72, 221, 305, 383,
389; Jly. 113, 267, 296; S.
137, 170, 216; N. 360, 605;
Appdx. 35, 67-8
Martyrdom courted, S. loo, 1 13;
N. 217, 335, 459
Martyrs, a few multiplied into
many, O. 604 ; apocryphal {see
Acts, fabulous), do not suffer
pain, O. 352, 644 ; N. 20 :
show disrespect to judges, N.
520 : title loosely applied, Jly.
317; N. 413
Martyrology of Ado, 536 : of
*-
-*
*-
;94
Index of Subjects.
Florus, O. 535 : of Hrabanus,
O. 535: of Notker, Ap. .105;
O. 536 : of Usuaidus, D. 536 :
of Wandelbert, O. 536: of Whit-
ford, S. 464 : of Wilson, S. 92,
269, 464 : Roman, errors in,
Au. 223, 234
Mary, S., acts as midwife, O. 185 :
adversaries of. My. 165: benefit
of invoking, O. 359 : cakes
offered to, My. 165 : portrait
of, S. Ill : visits a saint, N.
343
Masqueraders torment a saint, N.
249
Mass and sermon, respective val-
ues, Au. 303 : assistance at, F.
262 : congregations attend part
only, Jan. 353 : fasting before,
N. 204 : repetition, Ap. 146 :
said easily, O. 228
Masses, three daily, Jly. 117
Master thief. My. 252
Maurice, S., in Valais, S. 333
Maximilian of Mexico, My. 425 ;
Au. 146
Mazard apples, Ap. 192
Meat and drink, evaporate, N.
15 : kingdom of God not in,
Jly- IS5
Mecklenburg founded, Ju. 74
Media vita in morte sumus, Ap.
lOI
Mediation of Christ, Jan. 451
Medici family, N. ill
Meditation, Jan. 343
Meekness, examples of, F. 198,
380 ; Jly. 477 ; Au. 288, 332,
477 ; O. 55S ; N. 252
Meleiian schism, Jan. 264 ; F.
278-83 ; S. 455-7 ; N. 545
Melifont founded, N. 94
Memory, Jan. 35
Men, virgin may not address, D.
68 : nor look on, N. 252
Mendicant orders, charges against,
Jly- 380
Menhir, idolatrous rite at, Jly. 608:
story of, O. 618
Merchant saint, Mch. 517 ; Au. 5
Mercia, kingdom of, O. 244
Mercy, in judging, Jly. 141-2:
sought for captives, N. 253
Mersebuig founded, Ju. 74
Mesalliance, O. 351
Metaphrastes, N. 575
Mice as symbols, Mch. 308 ; Ju.
340: earth drives away, Jly. 123:
festival of, D. 7 : story of, My. 143
Michael, S., apparition of. My.
115; S. 435: churches dedi-
caied to, N. 22
Midland English, Jan. 91
Mitlsunimer Eve, Ju. 333
Milk from veins of saint, Ju. 453 ;
Jly- 35 1 > 586: heals blindness,
S. 274 : in Irish legends, F. 15 ;
Mch. 160, 247 ; Ap. 332, 333 ;
Ju. 27 ; Au. 136 : man's breast
yields, D. 122
Mill, Jan. 310, Mch. 214, Appdx.
201
Milliner saint, Au. 325
Millstone round neck of saint, O.
629
Minims, Order of, Ap. 26
Ministrales, Au. 193
Minster in Sheppey, Jly. 159: in
Thanet, Jly. 318
Minstrelsy, My. 349
Miracles, alleged, but false, N.
626, 632 : curious, Jan. 25, 61,
146; Mch. 50, 71 ; My. 112,
205, 307 ; Ju. 27, 249 ; Jly. 10,
II, 40, 120, 135, 281 ; Au. 39,
150, 153, 160, 247; S. 49, 52,
163, 187, 251, 278; O. 431 ;
N. 240, 337, 33S: desire for,
F. 72 ; O. 732 : doubtful, N.
252 : explained, F. 2 ; My. 278 ;
Ju. 32, 184, 246, 363; Jly. 302,
365. 376, 3S1 ; Au. 12; S. 187,
189 ; O. 324, 475, 581 ; N. 23,
71, 72, 139, 169, 208 : magnifi-
cation of, Jan. 117; Ju. 158,
247 ; Jly. 376 : manufacture of,
Jan. 351, 3S2; F. 2: test of, F.
66 ; O. 130
Missions, fruits of, N. 556, 559 :
preaching, N. 553-60
*-
*-
Index of Sudj'ecfs.
195
Mitre, deprivation of, N. 66 :
papal, N. 94
Mittens, Jan. Ii6
Mixed motives, Au. 341
Mob, violence of, S. 148
Moderation in asceticism, Jan. 69:
refusal of, N. 488: use of, Jan.
69; N. no; D. 38
Modesty, O. 37 : false, Ju. 292-
293 ; D. 68 : martyrs to, D. 407
Molten lead, martyrdom by. See
Lead
Monachism, Arian dislike of, Jan.
404
Monasteries, double, see Double :
given to laymen, F. 65 ; My.
279 ; Ju. 41 : great size of. My.
143
Monastic cruelty, Ap. 122; N.
539 : decline, My. 268, 2S1 :
friendships, O. 282 : habit, re-
verence for, Jan. 391 : laxity,
F. 197, 201, 428; S. 41 : life,
attraction of, Jan. 11, 33 ; Ju.
262, 378 ; Au. 227 : love, Jan.
12, 150, 174; F. 250; Mch.
245, 472 ; Ap. 267 ; N. 193 :
violence, Jan. 419 ; F. 200, 253;
S. 41 ; N. 210, 473
Mongols, Au. 152
Monks, customs in Egypt, Jan.
29-30 ; F. 266 : desert their
monasteries, Ju. 237 ; Jly. 23 :
dissolute, Au. 282 ; O. 500 ; N.
126: gluttonous, N. 204: jea-
lous, N. 191, 210, 220, 337,
347 : poison abbot, Jan. 87,
337; Mch. 391, 414; S. 363:
turned out by nuns, O. 558 :
warlike, F. 30
Monophysite heresy, Au. 272, 275 ;
S. 152
Monothelite heresy, Jan. 137 ; F.
342; Mch. 215; My. 175 ; Ju.
413; N. 293-6
Montanist heresy, Ju. 1 5, 407 ;
Au. 311 ; O. 351, 688, 717
Montjoie, S. Denis, O. 197
Montmorency family, O. 197
Montserrat, Jly. 711
Moorish martyrs, Au. 223, 226,
234: persecution, Mch. 218-20,
254
Morat, battle of, Mch. 429
Moravians, conversion of, Mch.
180
Morini, Mch. 288
Mortar, cast into, My. 224 : mar-
tyr brayed in, F. 410
Morte d'Arthur, Mch. 37
Moscowf, churches of, Au. 265
Moss, saint overgrown with,
Appdx. 183
Mothers, good, F. 10; Ju. 136:
prayers of, F. 106
Mother ill-treated, O. 333 : of
God, My. 129 : wheeled about,
F. 221
Motley's "Netherlands," Jly. 212
Mount, S. Bernard, Ju. 214
Mozarabic liturgy. My. 359
Mule, Ju. 188 : restored to life,
S. 121
Miinster sacked, O. 57
MUnsterbilsen founded, Jly. 192
Mtinsterthal founded, F. 362
Murder attempted by monks, F.
197, 266 ; S. 362 ; N. 122
Music, ecclesiastical, Ju. 223 : irj
England, Au. 80 : love of, O.
97 : miraculous instruction in,
My. 285 : patroness of, N. 505 :
school of, Jan. 171
Mutilation of corpses, S. 164 : of
males by Alexander III., Ap.
II : of saint's body, O. 409-13
Mystery, a vestment, O. 212
Mysticism, Jly. 334
N
Naii, given by Christ, O. 397,
414'
Nails, found with relics, S. 331 ;
D. 9, lOl : in feet of martyrs,
Mch. 46, 273 ; Ju. 88, 251 ;
S. 99; O. . 155 ; N. 228: in
temples, N. 164 : of the Cross,
*-
-*
*-
-*
596
Index of Subjects.
My. 6i ; N. 136: symbol of,
S. 107
Nails, splinters driven under, O.
629
Nain, widow's son of, Au. 255
Naked saint, O. 488, Appdx. 183.
Nakedness, virgin sentenced to,
O. 698; N. 311; D. 27
Name of Jesus, My. 31 1
Names revealed in dream, N. 186 :
used in witchcraft, S. 104
Natural affection overcome, Jan.
II, 78, 203; Mch. 425; Ju
235, 487 ; Jly. 605 ; Au. 333 ;
S- 79, 345 ; O. 531, 557, 699 ;
N. 446, 489, Appdx. 250 ; lack
of, N. 351
Nature, love of, F. 195
Neck of saint invulnerable, 0. 633
Necromancy employed, O. 644
Needlework, ecclesiastical, . My.
278
Negro saint, Ap. 59 ; Au. 348
Nepotism, episcopal, Jly. 122
Nero at burning of Rome, Ju.
335 : reappearance predicted,
N. 251
Nervii, Mch. 107
Nestorian heresy, Jan. 309, 422-31 ;
•Au. 26, 27; S. 152, 321; O.
607-12; N. 488
Nets, introduced in Sussex, O.
308 ; martyr enveloped in, Jan.
182
Netad, battle of, Jan. 107
New year begins, F. 27, 305
Newminster founded, Ju. 76
Newport, Appdx. 203
Nicknames, My. 274 ; Ju. 208 ;
Jly- 327
Nicodemus, crucifix by, F. 78 :
gospel of, Mch. 266
Niebelungen Lied, Jly. 202
Nightmare, Mch. 291
Nine at a birth. My. 333 ; Appdx.
292 : maidens, Jly. 358 ; O.
324
Nitrian desert, Jan .29
Nixes banished, O 420, 423
Nizibis, siege of, Jly. 353
Noetian heresy, O. 347
Noise, dislike of, Jly. 491 : to be
avoided, F. 379
Nominalists and Realists, Ju. 261
Non-residence, N. 116, 141
Norman treatment, of Saxons, My.
327 : of Welsh, Appdx. 56
Norsemen, F. 57, 243
Northumbria, conversion of, O. 240
Nose comes off, Au. 49 : cut off,
Ap. 253; Au. 284; S. 138,
392 : miraculous bleeding of,
0.496
Notaries instituted, Jan. 38
Noth-helfer, the Fourteen, S. 10
Novatian heresy, Jan. 134, 166 ;
Mch. 56, 172; S. 197-202, 205,
214, 216 ; O. 606, 689 ; N. 317,
545
Nuns, demoralised, Mch. 69 ; Ap.
55; My. 286; S. 142; N. 313,
328, 353 ; D. 103 : directorship
of, Ju. 39 ; Jly. 340 : dissolute,
Au. 282 ; O. 500 ; N. 234 ;
malice of. My. 10 : try to
escape, D. 107
Nurse, love for, Ju. 133 : martyr
or saint, F. 286, 361 ; Ju. 208,
221 ; O. 685
Nursery tale. My. 333; Ju. 154,
270
Nut merchant, F. 298
Nut-tree planted, O. 303 : pro-
duces fruit miraculously, S. 378 :
saint buried under, O. 572
o
Oak, used as oratory, Jly. 455 :
worship of the, Jan. 81
Oaths abrogated by Pope, Mch.
415
Obedience, instances of, Jan. 69,
78, 467; Mch. 115, 244, 484;
S. 275; O. 381 ; N. 221, 550:
virtue of, P". 263 ; My. 155, 195
Oblates founded, Mch. 198; N.
129
*-
->£<
^
*
Index of Subjects.
197
Obotrites, Ju. 73
Obsequiousness, episcopal, My,
175
Observants, reform of, O. 589
Octave observed, O. 202
Odin, hanging to, Mch. 363
Odoacer, Jan. 107
Oil, at ordination, Ap. 53 : boil-
ing, martyrdom in, Mch. 482 ;
Ju. 412 : miracle wrought with,
F. 256 ; Ju. 84 ; N. 253 ; D.
67 : water changed to, O.
702
Olive, the, founded, F. 256
Oppressive sanctity, Ap. 62
Oracles cease, Jan. 361
Orarium, Jan. 136 ; Mch. 44
Orb, imperial, Mch. 53
Ordeal by fire, Jly. 298; S. 65:
curious, My. 153
Order of Annunciation, F. in:
Calatrava, F. 30 : Carmel, N.
527 : Celestines, My. 296 :
Charity, Mch. 167 : Chartreuse,
O. 142, 146-9 : Guillemites,
F. 255 : Mantellates, Ju. 268 :
Our Lady of Mercy, Jan. 472 ;
F. 229 : Passionists, O. 477 :
Preachers, Au. 51 : Premontre,
Ju. 61 : Theatines, Au. 90:
Trinitarians, F. 228 : Vallum-
biosa, Jly. 292
Ordination, Celtic, peculiarity in,
Appdx. 45, 254 : in prison,
Jan. 4
Organs, saint with, N. 505
O Rex gentium, My. 285
Origenism, Jan. 403 ; Mch. 208 ;
My. 165-9; Au. 272; S. 413,
461
Orphanage, Jan. 124 ; My. 303
Orthodoxy, Feast of, Ju. 206
Otters lick saint's feet, Mch. 363
Oven, saint enters, Jan. 37 ; F.
214 ; O. 67 ; N. 347 ; D. 53
Oweni cross, Mch. 24
Owls, white, Ju. 363, 459
Ox, symbol of, Jly. 261 ; O. 470
Oxford, riots at, O. 34 ; N. 362 :
uoder interdict, N. 363
Paderborn, F. 159
Padlock through eyes, Au. 402
Pain benit, Au. 365
Pain intolerable, Jan. 12
Painter saint, F. 3S6
Palatine Counts, My. 270
Pall given, to Archbishop of Can-
terbury, My. 387 ; O. 242 : to
Archbishop of York, Ju. 84 :
to Bishop of Bamberg, Jly. 52 :
to S. Norbert, Ju. 66
Pall, meaning of, Appdx. 257 :
unconsumed, O. 130
Palm-tree, Ju. 154
Palmary Council, Jly. 524
Pandarist, F. 116, 118
Pange lingua. My. 151
Pantheon converted, My. 345 ;
N. 2
Papal abdication. My. 298, 352 :
claims. My. 359, 367, 377:
degradation, My. 351, 353:
election, contested, My. 120,
191 ; Ju. 64, 271-2; Jly. 450;
Au. 202: imperial control over,
My. 200, 352 : encouragement
of persecution, N. 430 : en-
couragement to revolt, My. 120,
122 ; Ju. 264, 265, 294 ; Jly. 438 ;
N. 211, 241 ; D. 39 : exactions,
Ap. 51 ; O. 32-4 : greed of gold,
N. 352, 357, .361, 365, 367:
interference with election, Ju.
84 : pretensions resisted, Ju. 383,
384. 392, 395 : in England, Jly.
341 : sanction of abuses, N. 367
Paralysed saints, Jan. 133, 147 ;
Mch. 239 ; My. 427 ; Jly. 524 ;
O. 282, 288
Paralysis cured, Ju. 478 ; O. 520 ;
N. 96; D. 81, 307
Paris vaut bien une messe, N. 66 :
treaty of, Mch. 127 : university
of, Mch. 129 ; Ap. 50
Parishes, Rome divided into, O.
643 : England divided into, S.
312
*-
-*
*-
*
398
Index of Subjects.
Parrot story, Ap. 246
Parliidge, roasted, restored, S. 163
Parturition assisted by a dalmatic,
N. 83
Paschal controversy with Celtic
Church, Jan. 93 ; F. 39 ; Mch.
24. 342, 355; Ap. 225; My.
379, 388 ; Ju. 4 ; S. 307, 359,
379; O. 300; N. 304, 493;
Appdx. 186 : controversy with
East, Jan. 379; Ap. 219; My.
349. 3S8; Ju. 408; Jly. 596;
O. 701: fire, Mch. 71, 296
Passionists founded, O. 477
Passover, man in whose house
celebrated, S. I
Patavia, Ju. 460
Paten recovered from sea, Mch.
362 : sent from heaven, F. 237
Patience, example of, My. 193
Patricians, Roman, My. 353 ; Ju.
416
Patrick, reputed relations of, F.
178; N. 321 : three of name,
Mch. 304
Patrimony of Apostles, N. 580
Patripassians, Au. 312
Patron, choice of, N. 431
Patronage, how obtained, O. 643
Paul, S., Albigensian doctrine
concerning, Mch. 77 : disciples
of, Jan. 359 ; F. 312, 339, 449 ;
M. 406 ; Au. 24, 34, 84, 261 ;
S. 87, 395; O. 61, 190, 195,
258, 319. 724; N. 331-3, 486,
501, 506, 578; D. 331-3: re-
garded as apostate, F. 81 :
relatives of, O. 257 : vision of,
O. 665
Paul III. and Charles V., D. 96
Paul of Samosata, heresy of, Jly.
93.;. O. 693-6
Paulician heresy, Jan. 140 ; N.
285, 431
Pawnbrokers, nation of, D. 65
Paximatium, F. 199
Peasant saints. See Husbandman
saints
Pedlar saint, My. 326 : landgrave
makes partner of, N. 427
Pelagianism, Jan. 441 ; Mch. 11 ;
Ap. 137; My. 33S ; Jly. 600,
6.35, 683; Au. 372-4; S. 414,
462
Pen, symbol of, F. 449; Mch. 210
Penance, severe, Ju. 39 : short,
Jly. 141 : should be light, Au.
22, 339
Penitence, royal, S. 15 ; D. 402
Penitent thief, Mch. 456
Penitential of Tlieodore, S. 309
Penitents, Jan. 136, 156, 433 ; F.
371 ; Mch. 2, 276, 456; Ap.
19; My. 191 ; Ju. 130; S. 172;
O. 167-77 ; N. 221
Pennies, three, F. 252
Pens, martyrdom with, Jan. 370 ;
Mch. 494; Au. 130: plunged
in chalice to write excommuni-
cation, N. 293
Pentecost, Jan. 433
Pepin assumes crown, Mch. 270
Perfidy, episcopal, N. 542
Perpetual fire, F. 22 ; Mch. 71, 78
Persecution, by Arian Vandals,
Mch.41 1-13, 440, 496 ; Jly. 310-
16 ; Au. 159 ; S. 89 ; C). 2S7-90,
416, 645; D. 69: by Arians,
Jan. II, 12, 14, 1S3; F. 446;
Mch. 174, 213, 371 ; My. 134,
168, 182, 319, 395; J"- 70, 200,
286, 496, 606, 721; N. 164:
by Calvinists, Jly. 212-50: by
Catholics, Jan. 446 ; F. 446 ;
Ap. 147 : by heretics, O. 606 ;
N. 42934; D. 78, 93: by
Iconoclasts, Jan. 175 ; F. 92-7,
275, 386; Mch. 217, 249, 311;
Ap. 39 ; My. 177-80 ; Ju. 205 ;
Jly. 194; N 584-6: by Mace-
donians, O. 607 : by Moors,
Mch. 219, 254; S. 251, 279;
O- 575 ; N. 525 : by Novatians,
O. 606 : by Quartodecimans, O.
606 : by Saracens, Ju. 72 ; S.
251, 279: disapproval of, Jly.
305 ; O. 610 ; N. 255-7, 285,
587; D. 51, 91 : exhortation to,
D. 60 : of Arians, Jan. 421 ;
My. 134, 168; N. 510: D. 60,
*-
-*
*-
-*
Index of Subjects.
399
93 : of Donatists, Au. 368, 371,
374 : of heathen, Jly. 654 ; S.
22 : of heretics, Jan. 419, 421 ;
My. 134, 168, 312, 395 ; D. 58 :
of Jews, Jan. 419 ; Jly. 462,
592 : Au. 212 ; D. 59, 234 : of
Manicheans, N. 487 : of Mon-
tanists, D. 59 : of Samaritans,
D. 59 : to be avoided, My. 131
Perseverance, Jan. 69, 90
Persia, martyrdoms in, N. 566-9
Personalities in preaching, D. 62
Pestilence of, 664 ; O. 282 : saint
invoked against, Au. 157
Peter, S., chains of, Mch. 514;
Ap. 2: chair of, Jan. 275; F.
365 : daughter of, My. 427 ;
N. 105 : disciples of, Jan. 398,
424, 439; F. 211; Mch. I, 407;
Ap. 33, 358; S. I, 35, 230,
396 ;0. 51, 152, 631-3 ;N. 66,
506, 590 ; D. 220, 404 : gospel
of, O. 718: key of, My. 184;
N. 75, 581 : picture by, F. 77
Petition to infant Jesus, F. 113
Pets, singular, O. 709
Phalic idol, Ap. 33 : worship, D. 8
Phantom ship, Mch. 73; S. 1 16
Philip, S., daughters of, S. 43
Philo Judreus, ju. 425
Physician saint, Jan. 465 ; Au.
149 ; S. 399 : female, O. 257
Physicians, judicious avoidance of,
D. 117: papal inhibition of.
My. 84
Pictish saint, O. 721 ; N. 201
Picts, conversion of, S. 262-4,
379; D. 12
Picture-book, Jan. 343
Pictures in Anglo-Saxon churches,
Jan. 170, 335; in churches,
Jly. 423 ; O. 501 ; N. 414 =
influence of, F. 378, 407 ; Mch.
178, 235 : sweat, Au. 319
Piety, precocious, D. 64
I'igs, Mch. 225: restored to life,
S. 36, 49
Pigskin sent from heaven, .S. 174
Pilgrim saint, Mch. 225 ; N. 62 :
killed, O. 326
Pilgrimage, Ju. 218, 313; N. 555:
not always advisable, N. 538
Pillar burns like candle, Jly. 126:
of light, Jly. 428; "O. 179:
straightened, F. 223
Pincers, My. 288
Piper saint, Mch. 156
Pirate saint, Au. 219
Pirates, My. 97 ; O. 518
Plague, F. 449; Mch. 210; S.
216 ; O. 282 : in Gaul, D. 62 : of
Milan, N. 130-9 ; of Palermo, S.
55
Playing-cards burnt, O. 591
Ploughboy bishop, Mch. 257 '■
saint. My. 147, 258; S. iSi
Plough diverts river, Mch. 327
Ploughing, miraculous. My. 14S ;
S. 181
Ploughshares, ordeal by, Mch.
53 ; O. 338
Pluralists, F. 445 ; Ap. 99, 100,
240; My. 183; Au. 190; O.
34; N. n6
Poems, sensuous, N. 536
Poet saint, O. 354 ; N. 536 :
ecclesiastical, N. 2S6
Poison rendered innocuous, N.
548; D. 310; Appdx. 161
Poisoning by a priest, Mch. 393 :
by monks, Jan. 377 ; Jly. 604
Polish missions, F. 203
Pomerania, conquest of, Jly. 57
Poor Clares, reform of, Mch. 98,
loi, 182
Pope absolves from oaths, Au.
188: appointed by emperor,
Ju. 274 : boy, Ap. 233 ; charged
with adultery, Ju. 352 ; Jly. 450 :
conciliatory, Jly. 449, 453: con-
demned by saint. O. 690-2 : cor-
rection of, N. 499 : cruelty of,
S. 392 : deposed, My. 352, 367 :
disobeyed by saint, Ju. 383-4 ; N.
341 : encourages rel)ellious sons,
Ju. 365; Jly. 46, 55, 438; N.211,
341, 431 ; D. 39: heretical, Ju.
414-15, 464: honours paid to.
My. 121, 123: kingdoms given
by, Au. 1 85; N. 330: murder
*-
-'^■S
*-
-*
400
Index of Subjects.
of, by rival pope, Ju. 279 : muti-
lation of, by rival pope, S. 393 ;
N. 475 : poisoned. My. 353 ;
S. 393 ; N. 483 : prayed to death,
Jly- 379 '• reverses another's de-
crees, F. 26-7 : simoniacal, Ju.
274 : tried before emperor, f u.
160 ; Jly. 450
Popes issue conflicting judgments,
F. 26-7; Ju. 272, 289, 415;
Jly. 329
Popular canonisation, Jly. 359 :
veto on election, O. 646
Populicians, Mch. 75
Porpoises eaten, My. 338
Porridge boils miraculously, S.
Porringer, silver, Mch. 277
Port of Gaza, O. 355
Porter of heaven, O. 301
Portrait of B. V. M., F. 79, 80 :
of Christ, F. 73-9 : of saint
taken in vision, S. 57
Possession, healing of, O. 425,
515, 632; of Apostolate, My.
206
Pot, child put into, Mch. 158
Pottenstein, N. 442
Poverty, evangelical, Ju. 236 ;
Au. 123
Practical jokes, Jan. 113, 145;
Ap. 103 ; Jly. 374, 405
Pragmatic sanction, Au. 305
Prague, Mch. 182 ; O. 731
Prayer, constancy in, F. 476 : for
death of heretic, O. 476 : for
the dead, Ju. 317; N. 46, 88;
instruction in, Jan. 222 : saint
dies in answer to, O. 258
Prayers, numerous, N. 353
Preachers, preparation of, O.
221
Preaching, attractive, N. 559 : by
abbess, N. 343 : by deacons,
Jan. 331 : effect of, Jan. 453 ;
My. 159; O. loi, 584: neglect
of, N. 435 : officeof bishop, Jan.
290 ; Au. 41, 51, 364 : prepared,
Ap. 87 ; Au. 249 : reading need-
ful for, N. 552 : simplicity in.
Au. 23 ; O. 172 : too frequent,
N.415
Prebend held by layman, Ap. 7,
205
Precedence, Jan. 18
Precocious piety, O. 213
Predestination, Ju. 254-8 ; S.
415-17
Pregnancy, assistance in, Jly. 123;
S. 40 ; N. 83
Pregnant nun, O. 500
Preputium sacrosanctum, D. 8
Pride humbled, Ap. 98 ; My. 194,
196: spiritual, Jan. 150
Priesthood compulsorily conferred,
My. 127
Priests hamstrung, Jan. 143 : mur-
derers, Jan. 319
Primacy of Canterbury, My. 387
Prime instituted, Ju. 194
Priscillianist heresy, Ap. 146 ; N.
254-6
Prisoners, patron of, N. 161 : re-
lease of, Jan. 414 ; N. 160
Processions, Jan. 362, 428, 440 ;
F. 283, 361, 438; Mch. 230,
280; My. loS, 187, 430; Ju.
157 ; Jly-. 324
Procrastination, episcopal, ATy.
270
ProLiirations, Jly. 266 ; N. 364
Prophecy fails. My. 377 ; Ju. 252 :
fulfilled, Jan. 16, 108 ; Ju. 134,
239 : of S. Edward, O. 345
Prophetess, O. 689, 717
Prosper of Riez, My. 339 ; Ju.
353. 35S; Jly-.6S5
Prostitute reclaimed, Jan. 136,
156; F. 371; Mch. 2-8; Ju.
365. See Penitents
Protestant intolerance, Jan. 446 ;
Ap. 332
Prufening founded, Jan. 87
Psalms, sitting to sing, F. 390
Psalter, Gallican, O. 296 : learned
by heart, D. 53 : recited daily,
Jan. 387; F. 388; Mch. 218;
N. 350
Pucelles, les deux, N. 591
Pure love, S. 6
*-
Purgatory, Jan. 27 ; Mch. 106 ;
Ap. 93 ; ju- 476 ; Jiy. 534 ; O.
2i6, 220
Purse, marvellous, F. 252
QUARTODECIMANS, O. 30b, 606 ;
N. 58
Quatuor Coronati, N. 185
Quentin Durward, F. 109
Quern grinds marvellously, N. 165
Question, F. 332
Questions, idle, S. 390
Quicklime, martyrdom in. My.
224 : put in mouth, D. 727
Quicunque vult, My. 340
Quincy founded, S. 250
Quito, lily of, My. 393
R
Rabbit, Au. 81
Rabble, violence of, S. 60 ; D. 86,
88,94
Rack, use of, F. 8
Radbod, Mch. 364 ; Ju. 155
Radgast, Ju. 73
Rain, protection from, Ju. 377 :
sent miraculously, F. 438 ; My.
17; S. 56, 116; O. 513
Raisint; the dead, Jan. 109 ; F.
252; Mch. 351, 398; Ap. 28;
My. Ill
Ram's horn, martyrdom by. My.
420
Ramsey, Au. 250
Ran, human sacrifice to, Mch. 364
Rash judgment, Jan. 357 ; S. 38
Rats, martyrs devoured by, Jly.
274 ; Au. 99, 100
Ratzehurg founded, Ju. 74
Ravens, Jan. 327, 334 ; Jly. 520
Ray of light decides episcopal elec-
tion, 0. 2: gloves, &c., hung on.
See Sunbeam
Real presence, belief in, Au. 309
Realists and Nominalists, Ju. 261
Rebaix founded, Au. 263
Recluses, F. 32, 207 ; Mch. 97 ;
Au. 28
Redbreast restored to life, Jan.
188 : brings ear of corn, Jly. 28
Redemption of captives, Jan. 95,
Red-hot iron, saint carries, N. 23,
32 : walking on, Mch. 53 ; O.
Reed, splintered, torture with,
Mch. 491, 515; Au. 36, 99
" Refutation of Heresies," Au.
234, 312; 0.347, 350-2
Regionary bishops, F. 183 ; S. 122
Regular canons. My. 224
Reichenau founded, N. 84
Relapse and recovery, Jly. 141
Relic, doubtful, objected to, Au.
133 : worship opposed, Jan. 271
Relics, abuse of, O. 59 : bleed, S.
164; O. 63, 68, 116; N. 12:
curious, My. 109 ; Jly. 585 ;
Au. no; S. 231 ; O. 184, 413 ;
N. 248, 310, 563, 565 ; D. 8, 1 16:
disgusting, Au. 1 10, 250 ; O.
68; N. 1 58; D. 8: doubtful,
O. 321 ; D. 8, 9, 90, loi, 103:
erroneously attributed, Jly. 309 :
genuineness, how determined,
O. 58 : greed for, S. 148 ; O.
409-13, 464; N. 58; D. 72,
116: invention of, F. 376, 433 ;
Ju. 220 ; Jly. 128, i29,'2S5, 356,
404; S. 12; O. 62, 321, 563 ;
N. 169, 503, 628 ; D. 8, 90, loi,
103 : jumping, O. 642, 729 : not
separable, D. loi : saint witli
three or more arms, Au. 259 ;
S. 259, 324 ; O. 165, 3S9 : with
three or more eyes, O. 31 :
with two or more bodies, F.
241 ; Ap. 2, 15, 23, 129, 130;
My. 19, 159, 160; Ju. 177;
Jly. 135, 136, 139, 140, 243,
426, 487, 509, 530, 551 ; Au.
114, 157, 159, 163, 258; S.
118, 169, 259, 389, 401 ; 0.470.
^-
■*
*-
-*
402
Index of Subjects.
473, 627, 630, 656; N. 565,
598 : with two or more heads,
Ap. 130 ; My. 4, 160 : Ju. 142 ;
Jly. 4S7, 520, 530, 551, 569 ; S.
259, 389 ; O. 30 : spurious,
My. 23S ; Ju. 220; Jly. 128,
129, 285, 356, 405 ; S. 54, 463 ;
O. 122, 224, 286, 357, 547-56,
563, 572, 598, 623, 644, 703-7 ;
N. 248 : substitution of, by
forged acts, N. 565 : theft of,
Ju- 359; Jly- 691 ; S. 164; O.
323., 454, 521, 619; N. 339:
traffic in, D. 116: worship of,
Jan. 383 ; F. 5 ; S. 100 ; O. 52,
21S, 275, 481, 570; N. 12
Remi, S., consecrated, Ap. 239
Remiremont founded, S. 194 ; D.
Ill
Repentance, sincere, Jan. 79
Resignation, Jan. 391 : of see,
My. 134
Responsibilities cast off, N. 351
Restraint of tears. My. 172
Resurrection body, O. 372
Revelation of S. John quoted, O.
320 : preposterous, O. 551-6
Revenge to be left to God, Jly. 143
Reverence, exaggerated, Mch. 1 19
Rhampsinitus, My. 252
Jiheumatism, O. 648 ; D. 47
Rictiovarus, Jan. 85 ; Ju. 146, 190
Ridicule, saint objects to, N. 209
Right of way, F. 18
Rights, tenacity in clinging to, N.
207
Ring, F. 225, 295 ; Mch. 44 : and
bishop, Jan. 294, 298 : betrothal
to B. V. M., N. 351 : betrothal
to Christ with, Mch. 163 ; N.
342 : carried off by raven, N.
99 : carried up to clouds, Mch.
44 : wedding, Au. 304
Ripping open of martyr, Mch. 495
Roasting, martyrdom by, Ju. 146;
Jly. 510. See (irate
Robber, conversion of, Au. 348 ;
N. 244 : saint murdered by, Jan.
329 ; O. 248 : revered as saint,
N. 248
Robe falls from heaven, Jly. 530 ;
N. 71
Robin redbreast brings corn, Jly.
24
Robur or Lignum, S. 290
Rock opens to receive saint, D.
27 : removed by saint, Mch.
306 ; S. 13 : sacred, desecrated,
S. 187
Rod, broken, F. 201 : of Jesus,
Mch, 306
Rogations, My. 151 ; Jly. 21
Roman martyrology, absurdities
in, Jly. 351, 407, 408: errors
in. My. 253, 307 ; Ju. i, 79,
129, 299 ; Jly. 3, 4, 5, 27, 135,
137, 170, 282, 285, 321; Au.
176, 223, 234; S. 100, 385; O
125, 192, 352, 416, 464, 471.
500, 698, 703-7; N. 53, 224,
307, 562-4, 578 ; D. 129: obe-
dience, Celtic Church reduced
to, Jan. 44; F. 217 ; Mch. 342 ;
Appdx. 44-55 : usages, Jan.
93-4 ; O. 29S-9
Romans, early Christian, Jan. 70,
121, 317, 3S9; F. 88, 176
Mch. 2 ;Ap. 15, 34, 301 ; My
58, 66; Ju. 207, 270; Jly. 185
203,433, 527, 553> 613; Au. 77
109, 113, 129, 267 ; S. 16S, 173
176, 184, 258, 386, 437 ; O. 347
352, 621-7, 643, 698; N. 149^
150, 502, 540, 541 ; D. 10, 413
Rome, appeals to, O. 293 ; N.
207 : beauty of, Jan. 13 : bribery
in, N. 207 : burning of, Ju. 334:
Church in, corrupt, Au. 89 :
city of mystery, O. 684 : early
Church in, N. 506 : judged by
her works, N. 196 : mission of
Lucius to, D. 13 : pillaged by
Attila, Jly. 600 : pillaged by
Charles V., Au. 92 : pillaged
by Genseric, Mch. 412 ; Ap.
161 : visited in dream, Appdx.
196
Romney, battle of, Jly. 644
Rooks regarded as devils, N. 350
Rosary, festival of. My. 90 : in-
*-
«•
► *-
-><
Index of Subjects.
403
stitution of, Au. 50 : introduced,
Au. 50 ; O. 420 : of S. Rosalia,
S. 56 : symbol of, Ju. 406
Rose, festival of, Ju. 80
Rose and apples from Paradise, F.
177 : bread changed to {see
Bread) : of S. Francis, Mch.
391 : shaken from sleeves, Mch.
414
Rosina (S. David's) founded, Mch.
II ; N. 154
Roskilde founded, N, 39
Royal encroachments. My. 266 :
preserves, Jly. 266 : race, saints
of, Jan. 34, 53, 118, 134, 138,
187; Ju. 71,90, 249; Jly. 278:
Appdx. 35 ;supremacy, My. 271;
Ju. 163
Riigii, Jan. 104
\lule of S. Benedict, Au. 15:8.
Bridget, O. 188: S. Bruno, O.
149: S. Csesarea, Jan. 167 : S.
Cffisarius, O. 67 : S. Colum-
banus, N. 492 ; D. 107 : S.
Comgall, My. 142 : S. Fintan,
F. 374 : S. Francis, O. 105 :
S. Molua, Au. 38: S. Pacho-
mius, Jan. 30 ; My. 192 : .S.
Romanus, F. 453 : hermits of
Fontevellentino, F, 388 : life,
Jan. 96 : monks in Egypt, Jan.
29 : Saxon monasteries, Jan. 92
Ruptured saint, Ap. 218
Rush-mat weaving, F. 263
Russia, conversion of, Jly. 361-9
Russian saints, Jly. 360; S. 122,
381; N. 511
Sabas, S., monastery of, Mch. 366
Sabbatarianism, Jly. 653
Sabbath, observation of, Jan. 29 ;
Ju. 152; D. 54
.Sabellian heresy, Jly. 355, 402 ; O.
347
Saccudion monastery, Ap. 70
.Sack, martyrdom in, Mch. 8 ; Ap.
38 ; S. 38s : of sand, Ju. 235
VOL. XVI
Sackcloth worn, D. 68
Sacred Heart, feast of the, O. 466
Sacrifice, human, Mch. 43, 364 :
the ascetic life is, Mch. 115
Sacrilege avenged, F. 64
Sacristan saint, S. 182
Saddle, N. 205
Sailmaker saint, F. lo
Sailor saint, My. 326
Saints, disreputable, F. 331 ; My.
201, 398; Ju. 154, 367, 389,
406; Jly. 8, 90, 125, 128, 264-
274, 501 : O. 499 ; N. 37, 288,
467-84 : doubtful, Ju. 304, 417 ;
Jly- 165, 533; Au. 4, 107,
214; O. 312-14, 413; N. 300-4:
heretical, O. 496-3 : manufac-
ture of, F. 376; O. 703-7:
popular canonization of, N. 24S
Saintship, hereditary, Appdx.
35-6
Salency, festival at, F. 80
Salisbury cathedral built, D. 48 :
Plain, massacre on, Ju. 203
Salt, boatload of, F. 289
Samaria, woman of, Mch. 336
Samasks, F. 1x6
Sanctuary, emperor not allowed
in, D. 94
Sand bag, F. 192 : pit, martyrdom
in. O. 627
Sandy beach, obtained by prayer,
Mch. 224
Sangreal, myth of, Mch. 37 ; Jly.
166; O. 9, 633
Sapor, persecution by, Ap. 260,
298 ; Jly. 352 ; Au. 36
Saracens, Au. 119, 125, 420; S.
42; O. 510, 531-5; N. 166
Sarcophagi, My. 209; Jly. 129,
192, 285
Sarcophagus used by saint, Mch.
497 ; O- 447
Satan, compact with, F. 89
Sauve-Majeure founded, Ap. 75
Saxons, arrival of, Appdx. 1 3 :
bishops deposed, Jan. 292 : sub-
jugation of, Mch. 477-8 ; N. 199
Scab miraculously cured, Ap. 117
Scandal, Au. 338
2 C
**r
*
-K
404
Index of Subjects.
Scapular, origin of, My. 226 ; Jly.
407-8
Scete, desert of, Jan. 29, 71
Schafifhausen founded, Ap. 1 14
Schism, vision of, F. 21 ; N.
547
Schismatic ordinations. My. 131,
167, 170
Scholastic theology forbidden, N.
342
Schoolmaster saint, Au. 130; N.
187
Schools kept by hermits, Ju. 242
Sclaves, conversion of, Mch. 176-
182
Sclavonic translation of Scriptures,
Mch. 177
Scolding, forbearance better than,
Jly- 142
Scots (Irish), Jly. 28; N. 302;
cannibals, S. 452
Scottish Church refused to submit
to York, Ap. 1 1
Scourging, martyrdom by, Ju. 305 ;
Jly- 355
Scratching, abstention from, O.
560
Scriptures carried on back, F. 256 :
conversion through reading, O.
320, 621 : destroyed, O. 566-7,
571,601-4: Latin version, Jan.
88 ; Mch. 322 ; S. 457 : learned
by heart, O. 510 : reverence for,
Ju. 2, 46; Au. 117; S. 37:
study of, Jan. 95 ; F. 380 ; Mch.
621 : the voice of the Church,
0.566
Scrofula healed, O. 346
Scrofulous boy, kindness to, N.
448 : saints, F. 330 ; Mch. 513 ;
Ju. 216, 369 ; S. 292 ; O. 465
Scrupulosity, grotesque, Au. 32,
81 ; S. 250
Sculptor saint, Ju. 78
Scurrility to be avoided, D. 61
Sea cow, Jan. 468 : divided, N.
303 : horses, Ap. 204 : monster,
Jan. 468 ; Appdx. 161 : sick-
ness, Jly. 456
Sebaste, forty martyrs of, S. 132
Second-sight, Jan. 263, 267 ; O.
279
Self conceit rebuked, Au. 340 :
contemplation, danger of, Au.
342 : denial, example of, Jan.
29 : no escape from, S. 173 :
torture extraordinary, Au. 318,
327 ; Appdx. 66 : will, Jan.
309; F. 3S1 ; Au. 341
Selfishness corrected, F. 3S0 ; Au.
38 ; monastic, Au. 334
Semi-Arians, Mch. 492 ; My. 124.
See Eusebians
Semi-Pelagians, My. 339 ; Ju.
354-6
Sempringham, Order of, Y. 101-5
Sensual thoughts, My. 382 ; Jly.
305
Sequences composed, Ap. loi
Serapium destroyed, Mch. 284
Sergius Paulus, Mch. 406
Sermons, written, Ap. 320
Serpents expelled, N.84; gigantic,
O. 517 : kept as pets, N. 230:
killed by saint, Mch. ']■}> ; O.
417; N. 25, 26, 600: power
over, F. 120; Mch. 63, 73;
My. 108, 137, 215, 323; Jly.
204 : protects bodies, O. 649 :
symbol of, F. 335 ; Mch. 305 ;
Ju. 221 ; N. 25 : turned to stone,
O. 179; unearth corpse, N. 25:
worship of, Y. 318, 342 ; My. 2
Servant-maid became abbess, O.
283: saint, Jan. 394; F. 31;
Mch. 457 ; Ap. 354 ; My. 10,
332; Ju. 10, 68; Au. 136; S.
17, 240, 272 ; O. 117
Servants, troublesome, Ap. 135
Server, Christ acts as, D. 72
Servia, saints of, N. 287-9
Service of others, Ap. 118: on
board ship, N. 612
Seven deacons, Jan. 133 : sleepers,
Jly. 172, 197
Sex, change of, O. 655
Shade, miraculous, F. 50
Shaftesbury founded, My. 255
Shamrock, Mch. 297, 306
Shaving extraordinary, Mch. 435
Index of Siidjects.
405
Sheep bleats after eaten, Jly. 11
" Shepherd" of Hermas, iMy. 124
Shepherd saint, Jan. 20, 72 ; F.
220; Mch. 165, 337; Ap. 3,
59, 218 ; Ju. 455 ; S. 98; N.
292
Shepherdess saint, Jan. 47 ; My.
145 ; Ju. 216; S. 98, loi ; O.
416
Sherborne, Jan. 119
Shield painted, Jly. 272
Shift of saint assists delivery, Ju.
321
Ship of Isis, O. 545 : scuttled,
martyrdom in, D. 278 : symbol
of, 8. 74
Shoe cast off by image, O. 131:
cures hysteria, N. 129: devil
threatened with, Ju. 253 : given
in marriage, Jan. 279 : one off,
Appdx. 290
Shoemaker saint, F. 438 ; O. 628
Short cuts, F. 19
Shroud, luminous, O. 282 : sacred,
see Sudarium : weeps, O. 729
Shuttle, F. 14
Sickingen founded, Mch. 92
Sickle in sky, S. 242, 245
Sieve, water carried in, Jly. 264
Sight interferes with meditation,
F. 20
Sign of Cross, Jan. 286
Silence, advantage of, .-\u. 340
Silk sent to bishop, N. 230 : trade,
O. 665
Silver cradle, N. 416: cup, Ju.
254 : hand, Jan. 45 : plate, Jan.
255; S. 193; D. Ill: statue,
Jan. 163, 408
Silversmith saint, O. 198
Simon Magus, Ju. 4258
Simony, Jan. 87 ; F. 206 ; Ap. 8,
235. 279; ^ly- 354, 359; Ju-
157, 223, 275, 392-9; Jly- 294-
301 ; iJ- 35
Sin, none without consent of will,
Ap. 37
Sindon, Jly. 166
Singing attracts boy. My. 189, 197
Sinucssa, council of, Ap. 345
Sister-in-law, marriage with, O.
119
Sisters of Charity, Jly. 408
.Sithieu founded, S. 72
Sitting for psalms, F. 390
Skewer through ears, S. 172
Skewers. See Spits
Skiff of Isis, O. 545 : of S. Ursula,
O. 544
Skin stained, Jan. 147
Skull, F. 272 : drunk from, Mch.
41: of S. Teilo, Appdx. 181
Slander, saint suffers from, Jan.
48 ; S. 5 ; O. 702
Slate from heaven, Au. 182
Slave becomes priest, Jan. 166 :
girl saint, My. 332 ; Ju. 10, 68 ;
O. 117: saint sells himself as,
F. 258 ; Au. 402
Slavery in France, Jan. 396
Slaves kept by clergy, N. 257 :
redemption of. My. 216
Sleep, curtailment of, N. 587 :
miraculous, O. 622 : necessity
for, S. 420: talking in, Jan. 23
Sleepiness, saint suffers from, N.
143
Sleepless ones, Jan. 232 ; F, 92 ;
S. 321
Sleepey, Ju. 132
Slippers worshipped, O. 412
Sloe wine, Au. 39
Slow fire, martyrdom over, Ju.
349. See also Grate
Slowness at Mass, Ju. 174
Sluggard kings, N. 73, 77-8
Smuggling of balsam, Jly. 178
Snakes and S. Godrian, My. 323 :
of Verdiana, F. 23
Sneezing not ominous, D. 6
Snow balls, F. 309 ; Mch. 297 :
burns, F. 309 : falls over virgin
martyr, F. 277; O. 133: mira-
culous fall of, My. 142 : shaken
off as testimony, Ap. 5 : tithe
of, Jan. 243
Soldier saints, F. 190; Au. 129,
177, 221, 225,315, 329; S. 132,
329-37, 441; O. 480; N. 216-18,
239, 242
*-
4o6
Index of Subjects,
Soldiers, Roman, merits of, N
241
Solignac founded, S. 91; D. 5
Solitude, love of, O. 522-5, 617
Solstices observed, D. 7
Somasque founded, Jly. 49
Song schools, Ap. 96-7
Sorrel, F. 30S
Spade symbol, Ju. 485
Spanish hagiologists, Mch. 44
Sparrows cursed, Ju. 360
Spear, F. 287, 363, 395 ; S. 277 ;
D. 234
Spider, Jan. 200 ; Au. 30'; N.
548 ; symbol of, N. 54S
Spike, saint rests her head against,
O. 488
Spirit of impurity, Jan. 252
Spiritual marriage, F. 295 ; Ap.
163 {see Iilarriage) : pride, Jan.
150: relationships, N. 197; D.
18 : sisters, Jan. 402
Spiritualists, party of, Jly. 338 ;
O. 589-90
Spiritualities given to laymen. My.
256
Spits, symbol of, O. 728 ; N. 66 :
through ears, S. 173, O. 727 :
through heart, N. 66
Spittle changed to gold. My. 145 :
cures leprosy. My. 142 : splits
a rock. My. 145
Sponge for purifying water, O. 474
Sponsors, O. 173
Spoons, Au. 55
Spring miraculously elicited, Jan.
45, AI4; My. 152 ; Jly. 260,
264; S. 192, 274; O. 53, 179,
284 ; N. 66, 68, 70, 189, 192 ;
D. 158; Appdx. 165, 174, 214,
252, 295, 299
Staff becomes a tree, F. 193 ; S.
181; O. 181, 264, 444, 619:
bishop's, embedded in tomb-
stone, Jan. 295 : brought from
Paradise, Ap. 195 : buds, Jan.
442 ; F. 192 ; Mch. 284, 439 ;
Ju. 247 ; Jly. 30, 477, 555 ; O.
708 : elicits spring, Jan. 45,
414; My. 152; S. 192,274; O.
53; N 66,68, 154 (J^£ Spring):
of Jesus, N. 92 : of S. Columba
Jan. 192 : of S. Cuthbert, Mch
352 : of S. Lambert, S. 278
N. 75 ; of S. Patrick, Mch
300 ; of S. Peter, S. 230 : of S
Vincent, Mch. 209
Stag protected by saint, Jan. 287;
Mch. 35 ; N. 154 : tramples on
serpent, Mch. 14 : used in place
of horse, Jan. 2, 19 ; F. 238 ;
Jly. 24; N. 155: with cross
between horns, S. 319; O. 129:
with luminous horns, N. 104
Stag-beetle, Appdx. 171
Stags, Jan. 365 ; S. 319, 368-9 ;
N. 73 ; Appdx 177, 200
Stamping iron for wafers, Ju. 134
Standard of Bretwalda, O. 244
Stanz, Mch. 430
Star, miraculous. My. 145 ; S.
164 : symbol of. My. 236 ; S.
165 .
Starvation, martyrdom by, F. 262;
Mch. 268 ; S. 46
Station, a fast, Jan. 313
Statue thrown down, Jan. 120,
163 ; My. 300
Statues at Constantinople, D. 82 :
at Rome, D. 85 : sermon on,
Jan. 401
Steps, fifteen to Temple, N. 487
Stigmata, F. 295 ; O. 112
Stockings miraculously dried, Jly.
120
Stocks miraculously broken, D.
625
Stole binds dragon, O. 558 ; N.
25 ; carried to heaven, 5lch. 44 :
of S. Oswald, F. 456 : pulled
off deacon, O. 68 : sent from
heaven. N. 75, 81 : used for
hydrophobia, N. 81
Stone, executioner turned to, S.
260; feet impressed in, O. 649:
feet soldered into, N. 15 : hands
impressed in, Appdx. 189 : im-
pressed by knees, Appdx. 190:
impressed by person of saint,
Au. 3S4 : moved by prayer, S. 13
-*
•3^-
-*^
Index of Subjects.
407
Stone, miraculous cure of, O. 59 :
operation for, Ju. 172 : saint
suffers from, Ju. 173
Stones, saint pelted with, Ju. 175:
saint sails on, Ju. 21 1: symbol
of, Ju. 143 ; D. 299
Stoning to death, Ap. 34 ; Ju.
141, 172 ; Jly. 136 ; D. 297
Stork, Ju. 105 ; Jly. 59 : pecks
out eye, Mch. 160; D. 222
Storm, circular, N. 654 : miracu-
lous, Ju. 172
Strangulation, martyrdom by, Ju.
70; S. 131, 266 ; N. 289
Strathclyde, Jan. 189
Strense, Jan. 2
Stripes administered in dream,
Y. 40
Sturgeon bears saint, Jly. 263
Styles, or iron pens, Jan. 371 ;
Mch. 494
Stylites, Jan. 71 ; My. 410; Jly. 173
Subjugation of flesh, Jan. 31
Submerged cities, O. 618
Submergence of Gwaleod, Appdx.
IS9
Sudarium sanctum, F. 78 ; N. 139
Suevi, conversion of, D. 8
Suffocation, martyrdom by, Jan.
175 j Ju- 177' ^«^ Strangulation
Suicide, martyrdom by, Ju. 89
Summons before God's throne,
N. 488
Sun does not set, S. 378 : shines
on S. Eskiel, Ju. 172 : shines on
S. Gregory, My. 133
Sunbeam, clothes hung upon, Jan.
19 ; F. 19, 223, 284 ; Mch. 37 ;
Jly. 155; S. 195: decides elec-
tion, O. 2
Sunday celebration, F. 259, 260 ;
O. 200 ; Appdx. 76 : hunting,
Jly. 200 : rest, Jly. 65
Superstition, book against, N. 84 :
sermon on, D. 6
Surgery, barbarous, Jan. 459 ;
Ap. 74
Swallow, devil in, O. 504
Swan, symbol of, Ju. 487
Swearing, habit of, Au. 354
VOL. XVI.
Sweden, missions to, F. 61, 310
Swineherd, Jan. 280 ; My. 196 ;
Jly. 455 : "saint, F. 192, 387 ;
0.561
Synod of Victory, Mch. 12
Syracuse plundered, Mch. 511
Syrian deserts, N. 54
Tabenna founded, Jan. 150;
My. 192
Taborites, O. 594
Tailed men, ]\Iy. 390
Taille. La, N. 81
Talkativeness among nuns, Jan.
3S8 : excessive, Mch. 507 ; N.
549, 552
Tall brothers, Jan. 405 ; My. 168 ;
Jly- 5
Tangermiinde, battle of, Ju. 73
Tankelin, heresy of, Ju. 62
Tannhaiiser myth, O. 708
Tapers, F. 214
Tapestry miraculously preserved,
O. 398.
Taurobolia, Mch. 319
Tax-gatherers, S. 323
Tears, gift of, Ju. 320 ; S. 80 .
symbol of, Jan. 142
Te Deum composed, Au. 361
Teeth extracted, Ju. 349 ; Jly. 412;
O. 118
Temper overcome, F. 10
Tempest allayed, Mch. 442
Temple converted to church. My.
345; N. 2,218; D. 54
Temples destroyed, F. 438, 440;
Mch. 284, 298, 345, 475, 494,
515; Ap. 131 ; Au. 137-9; S.
96, 120, 187 ; N. 166, 248
Temptation, how escaped, N. 221 :
how met, Au. 337, 341 : how
not to be escaped, S. 173: of
hermits, N. 249 : overcome by
fire, Jan. 434 ; F. 23, 290 ; Ap.
206 ; Ju. 364
Tenderness for souls, Au, 335, 338
Tentmaker saint, Ju. 432
2 C 2
*-
*-
-*
4o8
Index of Subjects.
Testamentary disposal of see,S.i58
Theatines founded, Au. 91
Theatrical representation forbid-
den, F. 424 ; N. 123 : represen-
tation of baptism, F. 443
Theban Legion, Jan. 235 ; F. 341,
454; Au. 61, "315 ; S. 2, 331,
441 ; O. 224, 357 ; D. 46
Theoderic the Goth, Jan. 13 ;
My. 395 ; Jly- .179
Theodosius, baptism of, ^^y. 131
Theologic rancour, IMy. 3S9 .
Theophilus of Alexandria, My. 168
Theophorus, F. i
Theotocos, My. 129 ; O. 609
Thessalonica, massacre at, D. 96
Third Order of S. Francis, O. 104
Thorn in foot, O. 258 : myth
about, Jly. 10
Thorns, crown of, N. 560
Thoughts read, Mch. 486
Thrasimund, My. 14
Three Chapters, lieresy of, Au.
272-9 ; N. 498
Three pence, F. 252
Thrones cast down, Jan. 138:
prepared in heaven, O. 169
Thum bpreserved from decay, S. 270
Thunderclap, saint dreads, O. 462 :
utilised by preacher, N. 559
Tides at S. Malo, N. 336
Tilbury, Jan. 91
Tile kills a saint, Ju. 287
Time, a year passes as a day,
My. 212
Timidity, martyr suffers from, Au. 18
Timothy the Weasel, Jly. 99
Tithes, My. 274, 415 ; Ju. 36:
martyr for exacting, N. 548
Titles or parishes, O. 643
Toads, My. 289
Toe nails worshipped, F. 301 : of
S. Zita, Ap. 356
Tolbiac, first battle of, F. 179 ;
Ju. 24 : second battle of, S. 90 ;
N. 498
Toleration, My. 395 ; D. 78 :
protest against, D. 78, 8S-9
Tomb of S. Martin discovered, N.
259-61: saint born in, F. 349
" Tome " of S. Leo, F. 335 ; Mch.
149. 151-5; Jly- 421 ; Au. 78 ;
S. 15S : of S. Proclus, F. 331 ;
O. 611-13
Tomtit, Ju. 238
Tongue bitten off, S. 176 : cut out,
F. 320; Jly. 98; S. 273, 392:
incorrupt. My. 236 ; S. 463 :
pinched, V . 258
Tonsure, Celtic, S. 305, 307, 359.
379; Appdx. 183: controversy
over, O. 300 : Eastern, Jan. 129
Tooth, F. 233 : of Bud<lha, N. 563
Toothache cured, F. 206, 233
Torch lit by wayside, D. 7 : sym-
bol of, N. 218
Torture abolished, S. 424
Toucliing the garment, Appdx.
161, 188
Toulouse cursed, N. 590
Tournai cathedral wrecked, Jly.
219
Tours, monastery of, N. 258-60
Tower, symbol of, Jly. 531 ; D.
28, 67 : virgin inclosed in. D. 25
Transfer of land, symbol of, F. 5 1
Transformation, marvellous, S.
44°.
Transitus Marise, Jly. 175
Translation by angels, Jly. 13S;
D. 132-5 : miraculous, Jly. 192
Transport in ecstasy, N. 166
Transylvania conquered, S. 26
Travels in the East, Jan. 211
Treasure trove, F. 369
Tree blooms in winter, Jan. 117 ;
Mch. 47 : diverted in falling,
F. 207 ; N. 248 : hanging on,
My. 13 : restored miraculously,
O. 2S4 : worship, Jan. 81 ; F.
342 ; Ju. 45 ; Jly! 412, 681 ;
N. 66, 248
Treves, Ju. 69
Tribur, Diet of. My. 372
Trinitarians founded, N. 485
Triptych, N. 352
Trisagion, O. 616
Troitska monastery, S. 3S2
Trough, stone, used as boat, D.
123
*-
»i»-
■*
Index of Subjects.
409
Trumpet, symbol of, Ap. 88 ;
My. 311
Tiui,t in God, My. 261 ; Au. 95
Truth, inditference to, Ju. 30 j ;
Jly. 522
Truthfulness, example of, O. 503
Tunic of mail worn, F. 356
Turks, war against, preached, .O.
598
Tusculum, Counts of, Ap. 233
Twelve weepers, N. 306
Twins, F. 250
"Type" of Constans, N. 293-6,
298, 300
Tyrol, martyrs in, My. 418; Ju.
370
u
Ulcers sucked, N. 606
Umbrellas, Jan. 13
Umiliati dissolved, N. 121-3
Uncumber, S., Jly. 487
Universal bishop, F. 421 ; Mch.
232 : pope, S. 191
University of Paris, Mch. 129 ;
Jly- 327-33
Unstrut, battle of, Au. 131
Urochs worshipped, D. 17
Ursula and her virgins, S. 52»
257 ; O. 285, 495, 571-3
Ursulines, My. 430
Uses, abolished, N. 90: local, N.
87
Usury contracts annulled, N. 123
Utraquist schism, O. 592-6
Vain knowledge reproved S. 390
Valcnlinian heresy, S. 173
Vandalism, Christian, Au. 138-40
Vandals, Jan. 10, 14 ; My. 334 ;
Au. 378
Vanity, mortification of, Au. 21:
of worldly pomps, F. 107 : re-
buked, My. 194 : saintly, O.
60
Varallo sacro monte, N. 194
Vedas, N. 623
Veil, angel gives, O. 53 : miracu-
lously restored, O. 129 : of S.
Agatha, Jly. 172 : of S. Vero-
nica, F. 75
"Venator animorum," Au. 95
Venatores, Mch. iii
" Veni Creator " composed, Ap. lOl
Venus of Quiniply, N. 26
Vernacular hymns, D. 56 : liturgy,
Jan. 154; Mch. 179; O. 592
Vessels of altars of gold and silver,
O. 566: sold in famine, Jan. 23,
407; Mch. 315, 412; Au. 15 :
sold to redeem captives, F. 98
Vestal virgins, O. 623
Vestment at baptism, Mch. 315 :
at communion, F. 263 : eucha-
ristic, Jan. 15, 135, 138, 248;
Ju. 170; Appdx. 73
Vesture, holy, N. 181
Vesuvius, eruption of, N. 588
"Vexilla regis," when first used,
Au. 134
Victor, Pope, Au. 311- 12
Victory, altar of, D. 82-5, 95, 99
Vigilantius, heresy of, S. 459, 460
Vigilius, Pope, Ju. 272-9 ; Au.
291-8
Vine poles, martyrdom by, Ju. 129
Vinegar and salt for wounds, Mch.
222
Vines in Gaul, Jly. 15: intro-
duced, Jan. 322
Violence of Catholic mob, D. 86,
88, 94 : of martyrs, Mch. 409,
410
Violets, Mch. 240
Viper, F. 343, 368 ; Ju. 450
Virgil, l)Ook of, Jan. 368
Virgin Mary, B., acts as midwife,
0. 185: annunciation, Mch. 450:
assumption, Au. 141 : beauty of,
O. 195 : devotion to, Jan. 341 ;
F. 90, 106 : immaculate concep-
tion of, D. 108 : nativity of, S.
no: purification, F. 34
Virgin, consecration of, Jan. 48 :
disguises herself as monk, F
26S; Ap. 254-9; Jly. 424-6,
S. 167, 320, 351; O. 200-2:
-*
given up to insult, Jan. 120;
My. 206, 246 : of questionable
repute, O. 258, 499 : suckles a
saint, S. 274 : title loosely ap-
plied to, O. 500
V^irginity, form of dedication of,
F. 261, 267 : of B. V. M. main-
tained, D. n6
Virgins consecrated among Teu-
tons, Ju. 343
Visions, Jan. 5, 36, 123, 144,197 ;
F. 196, 381, 396, 397, 401, 435;
Mch. 88, 98, 104, 106-9, 206,
230, 292, 424, 509 ; Ap. 61, 78,
80, 115, 117, 118, 120, 372;
My. 104, 286, 289, 381 ; Ju 51,
253> 269, 33S, 401; Jly. 30, 52,
95, 126, 143, 197, 269, 401,
412, 489; Au. 30, 52, 95, III,
150, 180, 197, 269, 322; S. 57,
90, 102, 117, 159, 161-3, 174,
253, 280, 287, 319; O. 58, III,
171, 185, 198, 216, 282, 287,
310, 366, 369-74, 394, 408, 466,
483, 509, 579, 583. 605, 648;
N. 13, 201, 242, 250, 302, 312,
316, 317, 323, 342,441,554-6;
D. 41, 47, 48, 62, 72, 116, 231,
297 : of heaven, S. 159 : of hell,
360 : of S. Gregory, F. 240 :
pronounced to be hallucinations,
N. 251, 312 : to be discouraged,
S. 454
Visitations, episcopal, My. 270
"Vitae Patrum," F. 264
Vituperation, saintly, Au. 108 ;
O. 274, 594
Vogt, Ju. 310
Voice from heaven, O. 474 : lost
for whipping a chorister, N. 24 :
sweet, S. 5
Voluntary martyrdom, F. 277, 402 ;
Mch. 444
Votive legs and arms, Jly. 19
Vow, curious form of, F. 225 ;
evasion of, O. 667-9 '■ made in
fear, F. 9 : of child to mona-
chism, F. 215
Vows, popes release from, O. 458
Vulgate made, S. 412, 458
w
Wafers, stamping iron for, Ju.
134.
Waiblingen founded, N. 96
Waist, burial to, N. 502
Walcheren, idol worshipped in,
N. 173
Waldenses, Jan. 358 ; F. 45
Wandering Jew, Mch. 507
Warwick, church at, N. 328
Washerwomen, a warning to, Jly.
.352
Wasps, martyrdom through stings
of, Jly. 166, 598
Watchbox, saint lives in, N. 328
Water brought from rock, Mch.
256 {see Spring) : drops hollow
a stone, Ap. 65 : flows from
relics, N. 139: gives up what
fell into it, F. 202 : saint stands
in, Mch. 218, 340 ; O. 715 ; N.
67 ; Appdx. 66, 204 : turned to
blood, Jly. 135 : turned to oil,
N. 24 : turned to wine, Mch.
220 ; N. 23 : used for wine at
Mass, O. 730 = walking on, Jan.
234, 350 ; Mch. 161, 364, 393 ;
Ju. 57 ; O. 654
Wax candles, ends of, used, F.
422 : saint beaten with, Mch.
325
Ways to truth, D. 83
Wearmouth founded, Jan. 169 ; S.
379
Weasel, Ju. 407
Weaver bishop, F. 12
Weaving of work of life, Mch. 201
Wednesday fast, Jan. 313
Weeding out vices, Ap. 105, 215
Weight of saint burdened with
visions, D. 47
Well, Jan. 462 : child raised from,
0. 475 : holy, Jan. 45, 51 ; Mch.
439 ; My. 240, 321 ; Ju. 297 ;
Jly. 324; S. 268; O. 179: N.
155, 189, 194, 202; D. 122;
Appdx. 165, 174, 181, 189, 206,
252, 258, 266, 268, 295. 299 :
saints heads thrown into, N. 21
*-
-*
-*
hidex of Subjects.
411
Welsh Church, independence of,
F. 240 ; Appdx. 46-8
Wends, Jly. 268
Weregeld, O 439
Werewolf, Appdx. 166
Westminster founded, O. 343
Whale, Jly. 381
Wheel, symbol of, N. 471, 542:
torture of, Ap. 11 1 ; My. 205 ;
N. 541
Wheelwright's son bishop, N. 450
Whipcord round head, torture by,
Mch. 258, 496
Whipping as penance, O. 41 : of
abbess, Mch. 280: of monk,
Mch. 516 : of novices, O. 217:
of saint, O 714
Whitby, Jan. 94 ; F. 219
White garments, Jan. 413; F. 109,
263 ; O. 202
Wife, desertion of, Au. 25 ; S. 46 ;
N. 252, 290, 349 ; Appdx. 250 :
encourages her husband, S. I14 :
hermit regrets his, N. 252 :
heroic, S. 113: ill-treatment of,
O. 336 : love of, O. 699
Will of God, submission to. My. 382
Willow produces apples, F. 308
Wills proved, O. 46
Winding-sheet, holy, F. 78 ; N.
139
Window, martyr thrown from, N.
326
Windpipe torn, My. 420
Wine diluted by taverner, Mch.
253 : fountain spouts, My. lOi :
miraculously increased, N. I77>
179 : water turned into, 460
Wings, symbol of, Ap. 88
Witchcraft, priest burnt for,N. 142
Withern founded, S. 263
Wolf, Jan. 377,468; F. 19, 106,
108, i8i, 308; Mch. 71; Ju.
35. 57, 246, 363; Jly. 132,
199 ; S. 180 ; Appdx. 177, 17S :
brings head to saint, N. 202 :
carries off child, O. 576 : carries
sticks, N. 33S : killed by ass, D.
21: ploughs for saint, N. 202:
protects head of saint, N. 465 :
spares saint, N. 491 : suckles
saint, S. 180: symbol of, S. 40
Wolves in England, My. 329 ; S.
139 : saint devoured by, Au. 136
Woman barren, S. 40 : direction
of, N. 656-8 : disguised as monk,
Jan. 71 ; Jly. 424 ; S. 167, 172,
320 {see Virgin) : her vocation,
D. 68 : not seen for forty years,
O. 640 : reforming influence of,
Au. 354
Wood buds miraculously, F. 17
[see Tree) : petrified, F. 41
Wooden churches, F. 326
Woolcombers, patron of, F. 48
Work, blessedness of, Mch. 392
Worldly goods, D. 1 1 1
Worm extracted and hung up in
church, O. 433
Worship, meaning of, F. 422
Wounds healed, O. 270; N. 15
Wren, Jly. 15
Wrists, suspension by, S. 132, 146;
D. 69, 199
Wtirzburg, Jly. 189
YiiLLOW death, Appdx. 182
York, first church in, O. 241
Zagreus, rites of, Mch. 409
Zeal, intemperate, D. 66 : kindles
coals, N. 337
Zealots, sect of, O. 672
Printed by Dai-Lantynk, Hansom 6^ Co.
al. Paul's Work, Edinburgh
► ^
-*
<
F'L . tL 5- 5"- C4
Acme Library Card Pocket
Under Pat. "Ref. Index File"
Made by LIBRARY BUREAU
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11