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Melanius. At all events, in the next page he says that, perhaps, 

 St. Malo has left his name in Male's Moor in the parish of 

 Mullyon. In mentioning the staff of St. Malo in connection 

 with St. Mullyon, it cannot be too often repeated that, in all these 

 cases, I am not insisting on the identification of the saints, but 

 I am only cautiously and tentatiously pointing out that a simi- 

 larity has been observed, but it is not to be pressed. In the case 

 of this pastoral staff I take an account, under the name of A. 

 W. Franks, (preserved in Proc. of Soc. of A., vol. iii, p. 59), 

 referring to an Exhibition of Ecclesiastical Art at Malines, 1864. 

 ''In the first section was a crosier of an Englishman, St. Malo, 

 Bishop of Aleth in Brittany (No. 42) who died in 5G5 or 570. It 

 was formed of ivory, jointed with bronze." If the identification 

 of St. Malo with Mullyon, or Malo's Moor, be genuine, we have 

 a relic which should appeal in the strongest way to our anti- 

 quarian and religious sense. 



There seems to be better ground for identifying the patron 

 saint of Paul near Penzance with St. Pol de Leon. Borlase 

 observes that " St. Paul de Leon was a Breton from Cornwall, 

 says Haddan, and a cousin of St. Samson. — He is supposed 

 to give his name to the parish of Paul. So entirely had this 

 Saint identified himself with the church in Brittany, that he was 

 made the bishop of a new see at Leon in Cornugallia." ("Age of 

 the Saints," pp. 168-9.) Now, as to the relic. A little bell is 

 shown at St Pol de Leon which the Saint had often asked the 

 king to give him, but was denied. One day the fishermen 

 brought him a large fish taken off the isle of Batz, and in it was 

 the bell. It is very ancient in form, a kind of pyramid, with a 

 square base about 4 inches wide, it is 9 high, of beaten red 

 copper largely mixed with silver. It is now rung over the 

 faithful on pardons, as a specific against head-ache and ear-ache 

 (Mrs. Palliser, "Byways of Brittany," p. 109). This Bell, then, 

 may really be a relic of the patron saint of St. Paul near 

 Penzance. 



St. Just and the stolen chalice. — There is no better known 

 story than the legend of St. Just stealing St. Keverne's chalice, 

 and the righteous judgment that befell him, — in his being stoned 

 and compelled to relinquish his ill-gotten booty, by St. 



