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S. James, Apostle, Martyr. 



The churclies of Kilkhampton and Jacobstow are dedicated 

 to S. James. Kilkliamptoii feast is on July 25, S. James the 

 Great. 



Jacobstow feast is on August 5, 0. S. S. James' day. 



Probably, in both cases, the apostle has taken the place of a 

 Celtic Saint. Kilkhampton, by its name, bears witness to its 

 having been originally a Gaelic Cill. Its original name may 

 have been Cilljacob. 



S. James, Abbot, Confessor. 



James, Jacob or Jacut, Gwetlienoc and Winwaloe were all 

 three sons of Brychan or Fragan, a cousin of Cado, Duke of 

 Cornwall. 



Their mother was Gwen of the Three Breasts, who had been 

 previously married to ^neas Lydewig, and by him had become 

 the mother of S. Cadfan. 



The story goes that Gwen actually had three breasts, and 

 that the three brothers were born and suckled together. There 

 was a daughter as well, but, as the author of the Life of S. 

 Winwaloe says, "she did not count," and no special breast was 

 provided by nature for her. This nonsense springs out of a 

 misunderstanding. A woman was called Three or Four Breasted, 

 if she had been married more than once, and had reared a family 

 by each husband. This fabulous matter disappears from the 

 Life of SS. James and Gwethenoc, recovered by the Pere de 

 Smedt from a MS. in the National Library at Paris (Catalogus 

 Codicum hagiographicarum Latin., 1889, T. I. j)p- 578 — 82). 

 This begins thus : — " Fuit in occiduis Britannici territorii partibus 

 vir quidam opulentus et inter convicaneos suos nominatissimus, 

 Fraganus nomine, habens, conjugem coeequibilem, lingua patria 

 ixuen appellatam, quod Latine sonat Candida. Quibus divina 

 pietas trium sobolem filiorum largita est, quorum duos gemellos 

 uterus profudit in lucem, tertium vero deinde parturivit, his 

 duobus, juniorem. Gemelli quidam alter Gwethenocus, alter 

 Jacobus, tertius autem appellatus estWingualoeus." 



