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In the parish of S. Eval is a farm called Eaws, where was a 

 chapel called Laneff, and this probably was the original 

 oratory of the Saint. 



Uvellus is the Latin form for the Welsh Uvelwyn. He was 

 a sou of S. Kenneth, the crippled hermit of Grower, and grandson 

 of Gildas the historian. His brother was S. Filius, of Phileigh. 



He is believed to have been one of the British Bishops who 

 met Augustine in the celebrated conference under the Oak, 

 relative to the differences between the Latin church and that of 

 the Britons. 



This is very probable, as at that time Uvellus or Eval was 

 Bishop of Llandaff, having succeeded S. Oudoe. Moreover it is 

 almost certain that so important a person in the Welsh Church 

 as the Bishop of Llandaff would be present. According to 

 Welsh tradition he was one of those who met S. Augustine, but 

 the see of S. David was not represented, probably because vacant 

 at the time. 



I will venture to quote the account of this great conference 

 fi'om the Bishop of Bristol's little book on " Augustine and his 

 Companions." His authority of course is Bede. 



"Augustine began by brotherly admonition to urge the 

 Britons to make catholic peace with him .... Ecclesiastical and 

 formal unity having been secured, by whatever action raight be 

 necessary, they were then to take a joint interest in spreading 

 the gospel among the heathen people. And here Bede interposes 

 an exj)lanation of the need for some action to secure Catholic 

 peace. The Britons, he says, did not keep the Lord's Day of the 

 Passover at the proper time, but fi'om the fourteenth to the 

 twentieth of the Moon, and rerj many other things they did 

 contrary to ecclesiastical unity .... The Britons held their own 

 firmly. The disputation lasted long. The British firmness 

 produced its natural effect upon men like Augustine. They 

 began by praying the Britons to take their view ; they went on 

 to exhorting them ; they ended by scolding them. And not to 

 any of these methods and tempers did the British gave any heed. 

 To the last they preferred their own traditions to all that they 

 were told of the agreement of all the churches in the world. 

 Thi§ brings us to the last weapon in Augustine's armoury, 



