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Wliat is certain is that the Genes of the Cornish parish 

 settled there and established an ecclesiastical tribe, as several 

 fields of the glebe comprise the " Sanctuary." 



The Village Feast is on Whit-Snnday. 



There are springs near the church, but no tradition exists as 

 to any of them having been a Holy Well. The church, 

 picturesquely situated, has been horribly injured by "restoration." 

 It looks like a skeleton from which the fiesh has been picked by 

 vultures. 



The roodscreen and old benchends were destroyed at this 

 "restoration." 



It may be observed that a foundation of S. Cyngar, in 

 Glamorganshire, was known later as Llangenys. (Eees : Essay 

 on Welsh Saints, p. 183). But S. Genys of N. E. Cornwall 

 cannot be the same, as the tradition was strong of his Irish 

 origin, and Cyngar was not Irish. 



S. Geeaint or Gerans, King, Martyr. 



Geraint, Prince of Domnonia, is too heroic and interesting a 

 character to be forgotten. It is, howevei-, by no means certain 

 that he was Sovereign in Devon and Cornwall only, and not a 

 Dux Britannorum, or Pendragon over all the minor princes. 

 Eor we find him founding a church in Hereford, and more 

 remarkable still, he was the father of Caw who was a warrior in 

 North Britain, and was driven out of his territory by the Picts. 

 What makes the matter more perplexing is that there was a 

 Domnonia between the Clyde and the Firth of Forth, and that 

 Geraint was there to the fore in the great battles that culminated 

 in the rout of Catraeth in the Lowlands is rendered probable 

 from mention in the Gododin. His principality is called Gereinwg, 

 but it is not clear where that was. Whether he exercised 

 princely rights over both regions of Domnonia, or whether he was 

 recognised as general Sovereign over all Britain, or whether, 

 driven out of the North, he fell back on Cornwall, it is impossible 

 to say. In Cornwall he has left his mark. 



