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2. Comment Saint Noyale ot sa nourice passa la mer sur 

 une feiiille, et vindrent en Bretagne. 



3. Comment un tirant uomme Nezin par anctorite ciiida 

 tant faire ii Saincte Noyale renonce a la loy de Dieu et estre son 

 epoiise. 



4. Le dit Nezin cruel et despute que la S'*^ vierge a luy ne 

 s'etait accorde en lieu qu'on appelle le Bezen la tit decoUer et 

 autres de sa compagnie. 



5. Du dit Bezen Sainte Noyale porta sa teste, vint a Noyal, 

 I'ange de Dieu si la conduit avesque sa nourice. 



6. Sainte Noyale et sa nourice se reposa a la fontaine et 

 picqua son bordon dont sortit une fresne. Dessus sur une jjierre 

 faict sa priere, la merche y est encore entiers. 



7. Sainte Noyale en ce mesme lieu si trepassa et alia a 

 Dieu, auquel lieu s'entens estait desert pour le temps. 



There are at Noyal Poutivy two chapels dedicated to the 

 Saint ; one is in the parish church, and the other on a sjiot 

 rendered sacred by an incident in her legend of -which mention 

 presently. 



There are also two other chapels in the village of S*'' Noyale 

 distant two kilometres from Pontivy, and the paintings of which 

 the inscriptions have been given above are in one of these. 

 The parish church was built in 1420, and was restored in 1888, 

 when the stained glass window was erected, which not only gives 

 the legend as on the jahc but tilled out as current among the 

 people. This is the series. 



1. S. Noualhuen distributes her patrimony among the poor 

 in Britain before crossing the sea. 



2. The Saint traverses the English Channel on a branch of 

 a tree. (The ancient representation made her cross on a leaf.) 



3. S. Noalhuen is solicited in marriage by the chieftain, 

 Nezen, but refuses him, saying that she had dedicated her 

 virginity to Christ. 



4. S. Noualhuen and her nurse kneel in prayer on a rock, 

 and pray to be given the grace of perseverance. 



5. The tyrant in a rage has Noualhuen decapitated. Local 

 tradition has it that the Saint occupied a desolate spot in the 



