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assumed the name of Patrick started on his eventful mission. 

 No man better suited to the task could have been found. Having 

 been for some years a captive in Ireland, he could speak the 

 Scottish or Graelic tongue, as well as his native Welsh. As the 

 English church has to thank S. Grregory for sending Augustine, 

 so has the Irish church to look to the thought and care of 

 Glermanus of Auxerre for sending to them S. Patrick. 



"With the remainder of the Life of S. Germanus I wiU not 

 here concern myself. 



According to the Welsh account, whilst in Britain Germanus 

 formed two monastic establishments, one at Caerleon and 

 placed Dubricius over it, the other at Caer Worgorn under S. 

 Iltyd. This latter is Llantwit. It is hard not to suppose that 

 S. Germans on the Lynher is not another of his foundation. 

 He may have used the estuary of the Tamar as his port in 

 coming and going, and have deemed it advisable to have a centre 

 of right doctrine in Cornwall as well as in Wales. 



The dedications of S. Germanus are : — 

 S. German's on the Lynher. 

 The Parish Church of Eame. 

 A Chapel at Padstow (B. Stafford's Peg., 1415). 

 The Parish Church of Week S. Germans, Devon. 

 S. German's day is July 31. 

 In the Bodmin Calendar, S. Germanus, B. of Paris, on May 



A fragment of a Cornish Mass of S. Germanus exists, and 

 in it he is asserted to have preached in Cornwall. 



He died in 448. 



In Art S. Germanus is represented with a mule at his feet. 

 He went to Pavenna to see the Empress Placida, and the beast 

 he had been riding, a mule, fell dead-beat when he reached the 

 palace. The Empress would have given him a horse, but he 

 replied that he would return home on his mule. He laid his 

 hand on and caressed the weary beast, and it rose and bore him 

 to his lodgings. 



* Misprinted by Nasmith, May 27. 



