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Kieran, merely altering the name of the saint. All that portion 

 relative to the life in Ireland is consequently worthless. But so 

 soon as he reaches Brittany, then only we reach ground that is 

 fairly historical. In Brittany he lands at Kerlouan in Leon. 

 Near this he established himself in a cell called thenceforth Peniti- 

 San-Sezni. 



Ijeaving that he went on to Guic-Sezni, where he established 

 a monastery and lived to the age of a hundred and twenty-seven. 



Sezni is the Breton form of Sithney, according to the rule 

 that the Welsh del and Cornish th becomes z in Breton. 



The Bretons pretend that so many miracles were wrought by 

 the body of S. Sezni, that the Irish sent a fleet and carried it off. 

 This means no more than that the Bretons did not possess his 

 relics, because he did not die in Armorica. He was buried at 

 Kinsale. 



As Setna, the disciple of Senan, and for awhile abbot of 

 Saighir, is not sjiecially commemorated in the Irish Martyrologies, 

 it is probable that there is confusion among several of the same 

 name. 



There are, indeed, two Setnas entered on March 9, but they 

 belong to a late period. Another Setna on March 10, and 

 another on January 15, but who they were we do not know. 



The feast at Sithney is on August 3. Setna, Sithney, or 

 Sezni is commemorated in Brittany on September 19. 



Tresezni, near Lannion, Cotes du Nord, has him as patron, 

 80 also Guicsezni now Guisseny in Finisterre. 



As Senan died in 554, Setna probably died about 570. 



In Art he might be represented with the Sun at his side. 



S. Stithiana, Virgin. 



In Bishop Bronescombe's Register, 1268, the patroness of 

 Stythians appears as S*^ Stethyana ; in that of Quivil, 1282 and 

 1283, and in that of Bytton, 1308, as S** Stediana. So also in 

 the Taxation of Nicolas IV. Also in the Register of Stapeldon, 

 1317, of Grandisson, 1346, 1354 and 1362; and in Stafford's, 

 1413. But in Grandisson's Register of 1338 as S*"' Stidianus. 



We may conclude that the saint was a female. 



