120 COKNISH DEDICATIONS. 



Ill Brittany not only is the cliurcli dedicated to him at 

 Plouarzel, but there is another at Logonna Douglas, in Finisterre ; 

 he is invoked against rheumatism and gout. His Holy Well and 

 Chapel are at Lonteuil, and his tomb at S. Armel, both in Hie et 

 Vilaine. 



There is in his Life a story of his having elicited a spring by 

 driving his staff into the ground, and another of his having bound 

 his stole about the neck of a dragon, and leading him to the 

 brink of the rivei- Siche and bidding him plunge in. He died 

 about 558. His proper day is Aug. 16. 



In Art he should be represented an an abbot with a dragon 

 at his side with the stole attached to the neck. 



His Life is given by Albert Le Grand from the lections of 

 the Breviaries of Leon and Folgoat, and the Legendarium of 

 Plouarzel. 



See further under Ervan. 



S. Ernoc, Confessor. 



Ernoc, Arnoc, or in the form in which we find the name with 

 us, Erney, was a son of S. Judicael and grandson of the Juthael 

 or Judual who was restored to the throne by S. Samson. 



He was a disciple of his uncle, S. Judoc, whom he attended 

 in his cell in Ponthieu, but on his death he came to Brittany to 

 the banks of the Elhorn, where his cell and church became known 

 afterwards as Landerneau or Lann-Ernoc. In the church there 

 he is represented holding a lantern ; a punning emblem. 



He got possession of a good deal of land, indeed his pou or 

 pagus comprised five parishes. These he obtained as his right, 

 owing to his princely birth, and he ruled them as head of a great 

 saintly tribe, so that later writers have supposed he must have 

 been a bishop. 



Near him lived his uncle, named Winiau, to whom he had 

 promised a gift. "I will give you," said he one day, " as much 

 land as you can walk over whilst I am asleep," then he threw 

 himself down and was soon snoring. Away went Winian as fast 

 as his old legs could carry him, but finding he could not do much 

 that way, he prayed, and lo ! a horse descended from heaven ; the 



