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left no cult in Ireland, nor have several of Barr's disciples, which 

 leads to the surmise that many migrated. 



The name Hia is, of course, identical with that of Hieu who 

 received the habit fi-om S. Aidan and was placed at Hartlepool, 

 but she belongs to a later date. 



Hia had a church, not only at Pendinas, but also at 

 Camborne. 



Her feast, according to William of "Worcester, was on 

 February 3. It is still so kept at S. Ives, but at Camborne on 

 October 22. 



S. Hia's well called Venton Eia (ffynnon la) is on the cliff 

 under the village of Ayr, overlooking Porthmeor. It was 

 formerly held in reverence, but has, of late, degenerated into a 

 "wishing well." The spring is under the walls of the new 

 cemetery, and it is doubtful whether the water be now uncon- 

 taminated. 



There is a representation of S. Hia on the churchyard cross, 

 and she with S. Levan and S. Senan are in a window of the 

 church erected in 1886. 



It is significant that her cell in Ireland should have been 

 occupied after she had left it by a Levan. 



In 1409 some parishoners of Lelant complained that they 

 were so distant from their Parish Church, that they found great 

 difficulty in attending service ; and they prayed that the chapels 

 of S. Trewennoc, Confessor, and S. Ya, the Virgin, which they 

 had rebuilt at their own cost might be dedicated, and provided 

 with fonts and cemeteries. Bulls from Popes Alexander Y and 

 John XXIII were procured, and the chapels were consecrated on 

 October 9, 1411. 



S. Hia should be represented, clothed in white wool, as an 

 Irish Abbess, with a white veil, and holding a leaf.* 



* The passage relative to her voyage on the leaf runs as follovys in Capgrave. 

 " Paullulum jam nltiiis navigando a terra discesserant, cum ecce virgo quEedam, 

 nomine Hya, nobili sanguine procrewta, pervenit ad littus, felici sanctorum 

 cupiensadunari collegio: cernensque proculalitore jam remotos, nimio anxiabatur 

 dolore ; et fixis in terra genibus, manus et oculos ad sublimia erigens. mente 

 consilium e coelo flagitabat devota. Et modicum inferius relaxans obtutum, 

 contemplatur super aquas folium parvum ; et protensa virga, quam manu 

 gestabat, tangens illud, volebat probare an mergeretur. Et ecce sub oculis ejus 

 ccepit crescere et dilatari, ita ut dubitare non posset a Deo illud obsequium 

 missum. Et fide fortis folium audaciter conscendens, mirabiliter Dei virtute 

 prelata, alterum socios prsevenit ad littus." 



