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S. Fiace's half-brother Oenguswas engaged. In 492 Cairhre was 

 again fighting the men of Leinster. The latter were again 

 defeated in 497 or 500. 



The condition of the south-east was so disturbed, the country 

 so incessantly ravaged, that Fiacc must have despaired of effecting 

 much till the times were quieter. This was about the period 

 of the migration to Penwith, and although the Irish writers tell 

 us nothing about it, we may conjecture that it was during these 

 commotions that Fiacc went to Cornwall, there to work, and there, 

 may be, to gather missionaries to assist him, when peace was 

 restored. But he went further, he visited Armorica. The Breton 

 Legendary Life of S. Fiacc, who is called in Breton Yougai, is 

 late and mixed with fable. It makes him an archbishop of 

 Armagh who, unable to bear the burden of his office, and the man- 

 ners of an intractable people, left Ireland, and crossed to Armorica, 

 floating over on a rock that detached itself and served as a ship. 

 He stepped ashore at Pen March ; whereupon the rock turned 

 about and swam back to Ireland. He did not remain long at 

 Pen March, but settled on the south of the great harbour of 

 Brest, where he founded the church now called Lann Veoe. But 

 even there he would not tarry. He crossed the harbour, entered 

 the forest, and formed for himself a hermitage at Landeboscher. 

 The Bretons think that he died there. 



In the parish of Treguenec near Pen March where he came 

 ashore is a rock bearing the impress on it of a head, and this is 

 supposed to have served him as a pillow. Pilgrims visit it to be 

 cured of fever, and they lay their heads in the depression and 

 drink water into which a relic of the saint has been plunged. 



In the 10th century Litany of S. Vougai he is invoked as S. 

 Becheue. 



The name in Brittany is Vio, Vougai, Veho and Vec'ho. 

 Beside the churches already mentioned of which he is patron, he 

 is also one of those of Priziac, canton of Faouet, in Morbihan, 

 These foundations m Brittany, like that in Cornwall, point to his 

 having devoted a portion of his missionary life to the establish- 

 ment of centres of religion elsewhere beside Ireland. St. Feock 

 in Cornwall belongs to the little Irish cluster, of which S. Kea, 

 and Peran-ar-Worthal belong ; and they are at no great distance 

 from the cluster at Lizard, where among others was his fellow 

 worker and friend in Ireland, S. Mawgan or Mancen. 



