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S. Noualhiion is the jjatroness of two parishes in the diocese 

 of Vannes, of two in that of Rennes, and of one in that of S. 

 Brieuc. Whether Newlyn West at one time had a chapel dedi- 

 cated to the Saint, at the point whence she emharked for Brittany, 

 and thence derives its name, we have no means of saying. 



The " pardon " of S. Noualen in Brittany is on July 6. 



S. Noyala appears in the Vannes Missal of 1586, and in the 

 Vannes Breviary of 1660, on July 6. 



Nicolas Roscarrock gives as her day April 27. 



The feast at Newlyn is on November 8. 



In Art she should be represented holding a sword, and 

 trampling on Nizan. 



S. NoN, Widow. 



Non, the mother of S. David, also called Melaria, was a 

 daughter of Grynyr of Caer Gawch and of Anna, daughter of 

 Vortimer. 



The situation of Caer Gawch, the Red Castle, has not been 

 determined, but it was somewhere in the S. David's peninsula. 



Sandde, grandson of Ceredig, the conqueror of Ceredigion 

 of Cardigan, saw, loved, and seduced her. She was then at Ty 

 Gwyn in the school of Mancen. Gildas, so says the legend, came 

 to the place and was asked to preach, but found his tongue 

 miraculously tied. He sent the people forth from the church, 

 and yet remained speechless. Then he detected Non crouching 

 in a dark corner, and discovered that he was silenced by the 

 superior merits of her yet unborn child. 



She is said to have retreated before her confinement to a 

 habitation on the cliffs, and at the moment when her son was born 

 to have laid hold of a standing stone, whilst a thunderstorm 

 exploded overhead, and the lightning split the stone, upon which, 

 long after, the impressions of her fingers remained. This stone 

 was afterwards laid beneath the altar. This is doubtless a 

 legend accounting for an ogham inscription, which could no 

 longer be deciphered. In after times the habitation was converted 

 into a chapel, and a mediaeval superstructure reared upon it. It 



