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Cornish S. Ewe and the Breton S. Eve. Of the latter, called 

 also Avoye, the story goes that she yas not martyi-ed with S. 

 Ursula and her company, but escaped to the neighbourhood of 

 Boulogne where she lived an eremitical life, but was murdered by 

 pagans in her cell. Her cult was very widely spread in France, 

 and it is possible that she may have been a native of Britain who 

 passed into Armorica, which formerly included all the North 

 coast of Gaul, and there perished by the hands of murderers. 



Her day is May 8, in Brittany May 2. 



In B. Stafford's register, 1395, she is called S** Ewa, so also 

 in Quivil's, 1281. 



At Tregona, in the parish of S. Eval was a chapel dedicated 

 to S. Eva. 



There is a village or hamlet in Pluneret, in Morbihan, where 

 is a beautiful renaissance chapel dedicated to the Saint, with a 

 fine screen of 1554. According to the legend told there the Saint 

 was one of the company of S. Ursula and was thrown into prison, 

 where she was miraculously fed by the Blessed Virgin. She was 

 finally decapitated. There is a "pardon" there the first Sunday 

 in May. In the Sanctuary is preserved a great block of quartz 

 sHghtly hollowed above and called "the boat of S'^ Avoie," 

 presumably that on which she escaped from the Huns at Cologne. 



On this "Boat" are three symbols cn.t, one like a cross, one 

 like a T, and the third like I. Children that are dehcate or 

 infirm are placed in the "Boat" to recover strength. 



At S. Ave the parish church formerly dedicated to her has 

 been re-dedicated to SS. Glervase and Protessus. Her feast in 

 Brittany is not only May 2, but also on May 6 and October 21 

 (Kerviler). 



S. Felicitas, Virgin, Martyr. 

 The church of Phillack is entered persistently in the Epis- 

 copal Registers as that of S. Felicitas. There can, however, 

 exist no manner of doubt that S. Piala was the saint to whom 

 the church belonged. It is close to Riviere, which is in the 

 parish. She and her brother Gruinger or Fingar were there when 

 Tewdrig pursued and attacked them. (^See Fingar). 



