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faithful friend and companion, Kerian, and died the first Sunday 

 after his arrival of exhaustion and extreme old age. 



Such is the legend based on the office books at Cleder. 



Lobineau, however, identified him with Cianan of Duleek, 

 who was baptised by S. Patrick, about 433, and who died accord- 

 ing to the Irish records in 488, and whose body remained 

 incorrupt to the times of Adamnan. But there is nothing in the 

 Legend to support this arbitrary identification. 



Moreover, Cianan of Duleek was the son of Cesnan Mac 

 Drona of the royal Irish family of Oiliol Olum. 



The only confirmation of this identification, and it is very 

 thin, is that Kenan appears in the Llanthony calendar of the latter 

 part of the 14th cent. (Corp. Christi coll., Oxford) on November 

 24, the day of Cianan of Duleek, 



What is conceivable is that Cynin, after his expulsion from 

 Wales, established himself in North Cornwall, and is the Conan 

 of the legend of S. Breoc, whom that saint converted. But 

 the change of vowels in the name, Cynin into Conan make this 

 improbable. 



What helps out the identification of Kenan with Cynin, son 

 of Goleuddycld, is that, on reaching south-eastern Cornwall, he 

 would be among relatives. Kenwyn is a daughter church of S. 

 Kea, and Kenwyn is the same as S. Keyn, his aunt, and a sister 

 of Groleuddydd. If Cynog be the saint of Boconnoc and the 

 same as S. Pinnock, he was the uncle of Kenan. The coming of 

 Cynin to Cornwall would be no migration into a land among 

 strangers, but to one where his own people were settled. 



S. Kea died on the first Sunday on October, and at S, Kea 

 the feast is kept on the nearest Sunday to October 3. 



In Brittany, however, he is commemorated on November 5, 

 for what reason is not apparent, but probably on account of a 

 Translation. 



In Brittany he is regarded as patron of Cleder. There are 

 also dedications to him at PlogofE and Plouguerneau. S. Quay* 

 or Ke in Treguier has abandoned him, and adopted S. Caius, 

 Pope, for patron, as being in the Eoman Martyrology ; and even 



* '['here are two parishes of Saint Quay in C6tes du Nord ; one at Etables, 

 the other near Perrosquirec. 



