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S. Glxjvias, Ablbot, Confessor. 



This Saint is perhaps the Glwys, son of Grwynllyw Filwr, 

 King of Wentloog, who settled in Cornwall, according to Welsh 

 accounts. He was brother of S. Cadoc. 



There was a chapel in the valley of Lanherne, and the farm 

 by it is called Gluvian, which seems to point out that the chapel 

 bore the same dedication at the parish church of Grluvias. 



In Domesday this latter is called San Guilant, and in the 

 Exeter transcript Sain Guilant. Grluvias is certainly quite out of 

 the region occupied by the Brechnock-Grwentian settlers, but as 

 Grlwys belonged to a later generation, and did not probably come 

 into Cornwall till the settlement in the North was a fait accompli, 

 and the excitement and resentment caused by the invasion had 

 somewhat abated, this may explain his church being found on 

 the Fal. 



The Feast is on the first Sunday in May. 



S. GrONANT, Hermit, Confessor, 



Otherwise called Gromond. The real name is Conan. He 

 was a hermit at Eoche, where the parish church is dedicated to 

 him. The popular tradition is that he was a leper who lived in 

 the hermitage on a rock, and was daily attended by his daughter 

 who brought him meat and other necessaries. He had a well 

 cut in the rock whence he drank. 



The date at which he lived is uncertain. 



His feast is on the Sunday before the second Thursday in 

 June. 



S. G!-ULWAi., Virgin, Abbess. 

 It is tempting to identify the Cornish Grulval with S. Grudwal 

 or Gurval, who is venerated in Brittany and at Ghent, and about 

 whom a good deal is told, but nothing very rehable. However, 

 Bishop- Grandisson in his Eegister, in 1328, gives Gulval as 

 Ecclesia Sanctae Welvelve de Langstly, and this settles the 

 dedication. See under S. Wulvella. 



