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S. Hydroo, Hermit, Confessor. 



Of Lanhydroc. William of "Worcester says that he was a 

 hermit, and that his day, according to the Bodmin Calendar, was 

 May 5. The name leads to the supposition that he was of Irish 

 origin ; it occurs in Irish Martyrologies as Huydhran, and this is 

 the same name as Odrhan. The Huy or Hy in Irish becomes 0. 

 An is a diminutive employed arbitrarily with oc. 1 suspect that 

 Hydroc is the Odrhan who was brother of S. Medhran or 

 Madron, disciple of S. Kieran of Saigir. See under Madron, In 

 the Irish Calendars his day is February 18, but as Odhran, the 

 name occurs in May on the 6th and 8th, on the latter day as a 

 Bishop. We may equate the Huydhran or Odran of May 6 with 

 Hydroc, May 5. It is possible that William of Worcester wrote 

 VI and it has been incorrectly printed by Nasmith as v. 



S. Hyldren, Bishop, Confessor, 



Lansallos church is dedicated, according to Bishop Bytton's 

 Register, to S** Ildierna ; and in Bishop Stapeldon's Register the 

 patron is also given (1320) as S'"^ Ildierna. 



However, William of Worcester says, " Sanctus Hyldren, 

 episcopus, jacet inparochia Lansaulx juxta parochiamLanteglys; 

 ejus festum agitur prime die Februarii, id est Vigilia Purificationis 

 Beatee Marise." 



Ecton, in his Thesaurus, gives S. Alwys as the patron. There 

 was a Welsh Saint EUdeyrn, son of the infamous Vortigern, and 

 brother of Edeyrn, who was one of the congregation of S. Cadoc. 

 EUdeyrn was founder of Llaniltern, a chapel under S. Fagan's, in 

 Glamorganshire. We have, however, no reason for supposing 

 that he came to and settled in Cornwall. 



I am rather disposed to suspect that Lansalos or Lan 

 Salewys, as it was formerly written, takes its name from Selyf, 

 the King of Cornwall, father of S, Cuby, and husband of S. 

 Wenn, That he must have been a munificent benefactor to the 

 Church would appear from the large grant of land to S. Non at 

 Altarnon ; she was his sister-in-law. It would be strange if he 

 founded no church himself. If Lansallos be his foundation, then 



