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black basket on her head, on her way to a little oratory. The 

 basket was piled up with goose eggs. The King's servants 

 demanded them, but she answered that they were intended as a 

 present for Ere, who spent the day immersed to his arm-pits in 

 the river Benda, with his psalter set up on the bank from which 

 he recited the psalms from morning till evening. 



In the evening he emerged from his bath, shook himself, and 

 ate an egg and a half together with three bunches of water cress. 

 However, regardless of the Saint's necessities, the servants 

 carried away the eggs. 



When S. Ere came out of the river, dripping from every 

 limb, and found that there were no eggs for his supper, he waxed 

 warm, and cursed roundly the rascals who had carried off the 

 eggs, and those who had set them on, and those who should eat 

 them. According to his curse, those same eggs were to become 

 very apples of discord productive of long continued bloodshed. 

 The story goes on to tell how his curse was fulfilled. 

 In the "Annals of the Four Masters," Ere is said to have 

 died in 512. 



He is patron of S. Erth by Hayle. 



In S. Allen (B. Stapeldon's Eeg., 1314) was a Lan-Erghe, 

 now corrupted to Lanner. This must have been a chapel to him. 

 William of Worcester gives Oct. 31 as the feast of S. Ere in 

 Cornwall. He says, " Sanctus Herygh, frater S" Uny, Episcopus, 

 jacet in quadam ecclesia scita sub cruce ecclesiae Sancti Pauli 

 Londiniarum," I have been unable to discover anything about 

 this London shrine of S. Ere. 



In Ireland he is commemorated on Nov. 2. 

 There was another Ere, Bishop of Domnach Mor the present 

 Maynooth, but he belongs to a later generation and of him we 

 know nothing. 



S. Erme, Abbot, Confessor. 



Erme is the short for Ermel or Arthmael. 



On the cross at Llantwit is the inscription that Samson made 

 the cross for his own soul and for those of Juthael the King and 

 of Arthmael, It is supposed, now, that the cross is of later date 



