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There were several Saints of the name of Hermes, 

 commemorated respectively on Jan. 4, March 1, Aug. 28, Oct. 22, 

 and Nov. 2. The fair at Penrose will not agree with any of these 

 commemorations. In Brittany churches formerly dedicated to 

 S. Erbin have been transferred to S. Urban, Pope and Martyr, 

 whose day is May 25th, precisely that of the Penrose fair. This 

 seems to indicate an attempt to supplant the native Saint by 

 Urban, in Cornwall, before the idea took with a bishop of Exeter 

 to put Hermes in his place. 



S. Eevet, Confessor. 



In Marazion was a chapel dedicated to this Saint (B. Stafford's 

 Eegister, licenced 1397). 



There are two Saints either of whom might be Ervetus in 

 question, Hoarve, Huerve, Latinised into Herveus, in Brittany, 

 and Herbotius. The I in the latter is equivalent to v ; and the 

 name would be Ervotius or Herbotius. 



Hoarve belongs to Cornouaille and Herbot to Domnonia ; but 

 I think that the Ervetus of Marazion is Herbot. Herveus was 

 the son of a Briton who migrated into Ai*morica, but was never 

 in the island himself. He was born blind. He lived in the 

 middle of the 6th century, but his legend was not committed to 

 writing till the 1 3th century. 



Herbotius, on the other hand, was a native of Britain who 

 crossed over into Armorica, between the 6th and 8th century, 

 it is unfortunately not possible to determine his date more nearly, 

 as his Life has been lost. This Life was preserved in his church, 

 in Britanny, tiU between 1340 and 1350, but perished during the 

 wars of Blois and Montfort, when the English pillaged the 

 church. The only legend we have is that published in the 

 appendix to the Acta Sanctorum for 17th June (1st edition), 

 which was forwarded to the BoUandists from Quimper by the 

 Pere Bernard as based on tradition. The chapel that bears his 

 name is in Finisterre, it is a very fine gothic edifice, between 

 Haelgoal and Lannedern. He is there popularly said to have 

 preached at Berrien on the Southern slope of the mountain of 

 Arez, but the women were angry with him because he drew the 



