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in first-hand interest, and discriminating severity, with this 

 Omission of his name and inclusion of his successors' names in 

 the earliest Irish missal which we possess. It is so early that 

 it contains a prayer that the Chieftain who had built them their 

 church might be converted from idolatry. Dagan, who had 

 refused to sit at table with Laurentius and Mellitus, reposed 

 along with them on the Holy Table for many centuries in this 

 forgiving list."* 



Dagan died on Sept. 13. The Annals of the Four Masters 

 give the date as 640. 



The meeting with Laurence would seem to have taken 

 place about 608. He was then a bishop, and probably not very 

 young. 



S. Pulcherius or Mochoemog is said to have died in 655 at 

 the advanced age of a hundred and six. 



If we suppose that Dagan died at the age of eighty-eight, 

 then he was born in 552, and he would have been over fifty 

 when he met Laurentius. The dates in the life of S. Petrock are 

 very difficult to determine. Dagan was with him for five years. 

 Petrock's arrival in Cornwall was between 520 and 560, so that 

 Dagan was with him only when quite young. 



His day in the Pelire of Oengus, the Donegal and Tallaght 

 Martyrologies, is Sept. 13. 



See further on S. Decuman. 



In Wales he seems to have tarried some time and to have 

 been well known. 



Fenton, in his " Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire," 

 1811, p. 21, et seq. says: — "Westward of Trehowel, near the 

 edge of the cliff, overhanging a small creek, are seen the faint 

 ruins of a Chapel dedicated to S. Tegan or Degan, with legends 

 of whom this county abounds ; his sanctity bore no proportion 

 to his stature, for this is represented as most diminutive. When 

 very young, I recollect an old man who said he remembered the 

 Chapel up, and in a part of it then roofed, the Saint's sacred 

 vest was preserved and shown. This vest was purchased many 

 years after by a stranger travelling in these parts, and with the 

 removal of his robe, the fame of his sanctity passed away. 



* Browne (G. F.) " The Christian Church in these Lands before Augustine," 

 S.P.CK., 1897, pp, 128-9, 



