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preserved in a cottage hard by. She is represented with a long 

 staff in her hand. She is invoked by anpemic girls ; and the 

 smocks of the sick are dipped in her fountain of the forest of 

 Loudeac, which is in great resort.* There is a parish of S. 

 Gwen in Cotes du Nord. Scaer in Finisterre is dedicated to her, 

 and has her Holy Well. 



In Brittany her day is popularly held to be either on October 

 3 or October 30. 



The Feast at St. Wenn is on October 18. 



M. de La Borderie thinks that the Gwen commemorated on 

 October 3 is Gwen Teirbron, the mother of S. Winwaloe, but 

 there is much difficulty in deciding which is the Gwen of popular 

 cult. 



Dedications to St. Wenn in Devon and Cornwall are : — 



The parish church of St. Wenn. 

 „ „ „ „ Morval. 



A ruined chapel at S. Kew. 



,, ,, ,, at Hartland, (Stafford's Eegister 1400). 



There is a chapel of S. Wenn in Saint Barthelemy, Morbihan. 



S. Wethenoc, Abbot, Confessor. 



In the Bodmin Calendar a saint of the name of Wethenoc 

 is commemorated on November 7. 



According to Bishop Stafford's Eegister (1415) he had a 

 chapel at Padstow. On the opposite side of the harbour is the 

 church of S. Enodoc. In Bishop Lacy's Eegister, 16th Sep- 

 tember, 1434, it is called " Capella S*' Gwinedoci," when the 

 Feast was changed from July 24 to July 13. In an inventory of 

 goods belonging to the chapel 1607 — 13, it is the chapel of 

 Guenedouce." 



His day in Cornwall, as stated above, is November 7. 



In Brittany, together with his brother James, November 5. 



* Sebilot (P.) Petite Legende Dorec de la Haute Bretagne. Nantes, iSg;. 



