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A CATALOGUE OF SAINTS CONNECTED WITH CORNWALL, 



WITH AN EPITOME OF THEIR LIVES, AND LIST OF 



CHURCHES AND CHAPELS DEDICATED TO THEM. 



By The Rev. S. BARING-GOUI^D, M.A. 



PART VI. Ma— Noil. 



S. Mawxa>", Bishop Confessor. 



The saint has given his name to a parish in Cornwall. In 

 Bishop Quivil's Eegister(1281) he is called Sanctus Mannanus.^ 

 In that of Bishop Grandisson, 132S, Robert Flammanke is called 

 Eector of S. Mannany, but m the same year, in another docu- 

 ment Eeetor Sanct' Mannani; so also 1347, 1348, 1350, 1361 ; 

 also in the Taxation Pope Nicholas IV, in the Registers of 

 Bishop Brantyngham, 1381 and 1391, and in that of Bishop 

 Stafford, 1398. 



Mawnan is the softened Brythonic form of the Groidelic Maig- 

 nenn. The feast of S. Maignenn of Kilmainham is observed on 

 December 18th, and that of St. Mawnan on December 26th. At 

 the rededication of the church in the 1 5th century, it was given 

 a second patron, according to the practice of the Bishops of 

 Exeter, who endeavoured by this means to displace the old Celtic 

 saints. The new patron was S. Stephen, and the Feast was then 

 doubtless transferred to his day, which, coming immediately after 

 Christmas, was near enough to the old feast not to wound the 

 susceptibilities of the Mawnan people, and it obviated the 

 unsuitability of keeping the Patronal Feast during Advent. 



Mawnan is in the district colonised by the Irish ; and 

 although we do not know S. Magneun or Maignenn was in 

 Cornwall, yet it is by no means improbable that he did visit it, 

 and had there a branch establishment, as he was a great traveller. 

 Maignenn was one of four brothers, sons of Aedh, and was 

 an intimate friend of S. Findchu of Kilgoban, S. Loman of 

 Lough Owel, and of S. Finnian of Moville. 



I. Or MciKnaims. -^dd. 



