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at Cleder he has been supplanted by S. Caraiinus, He has 

 undergone a "posthumous martyrdom," at Cleder as a blind 

 beggar told M. Le Braz. Said he : — " There is hardly a shabby 

 trick that has not been played on S. Ke. He has been turned 

 out of his church, like a farmer who can not pay his rent. He 

 has had to take refuge above his Holy Well at Lezlao, where he 

 now remains. His lot has been a sad one. That is not all. 

 When he occupied the parish church, not a woman who expected 

 confinement, not a young mother, who did not make him hand- 

 some presents. In those days it was said that no saint was a 

 patch upon him for curing children's disorders. His statue was 

 bonnetted with little baptismal caps of his tiny proteges. Troops 

 of small boys and girls were brought to him on the day of his 

 pardon. He was held, also, to watch over the prosperity of 

 houses, to take an interest in the harvest, for he himself had 

 been a cornfactor (a reference to his passage on the corn-ship). 

 He was considered also as powerful against the murrain. For 

 all his services he now-a-days does not even receive a Thank-you. 

 He is now thought to be no good at all save for watching over 

 pigs. He has sunk to being regarded as their patron — Sant ar 

 moc^h. His feast, Yn.^ pardon are no more celebrated." 



His day may fairly be regarded as October 3. 



His death took place — if we accept the date of the fatal 

 battle as given in the Cambrian Annals, in which fell Arthur — 

 in 549.* This does not quite agree with the calculation made 

 according to the Genealogies, but we cannot be sure that 

 Q-oleuddydd was not a grandchild instead of a daughter of 

 Brychan, and that Tudwal Befr in like manner did not belong 

 to a later generation. f 



* Taking Oct. 3 as the day, he may have died 538, 549, 555, or 560. 



fThe Licence for the performance of Divine Service at S. Kea, on the 

 re-building of the church in 1802 was dated September 29. In it is stated : — 

 " The church will be fit for the Celebration of Divine Service on or by the third 

 day of October next, on which day it is not only the desire of the said Petitioners, 

 but also (as is alleged) of the Parishioners of the said Parish in general, that the 

 same should be opened that day, being the day of their Saivt, and the day on 

 which, it is understood their old church was dedicated." Undoubtedly October 3 

 is S. Kea's Day. It fell on the first Sunday in October, in the years named 

 above. Perhaps we may give the date as 549. 



