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in Brittany into Gouzenon. The name is really identical with 

 Cxwethenoc, the th having- become z in Breton. But he must not 

 be confounded with Gwethenoc, the brother of S. Winwaloe. 



In Bp. Bronescombe's Register, 1269, S*"^ Wynnocus; so 

 Stalpedon, 1313; Grandisson, 1355, 1348, 1367; S*"^ Wiunocus, 

 Stafford. 1404. 



Winnow was committed by his father Gildas to S. Finian to 

 be educated. Finian and Gildas had been much together, and 

 had contracted a friendship that lasted through life. 



In the Irish accounts of S. Finian Winnoc figures as Gennoe, 

 as the Welsh W was unpronouncable by a Gael, and was turned 

 into G. How long Winnoc remained with Finian we do not 

 know, probably only till he had acquired all that this saint could 

 teach him. Then he came into Cornwall, where so many of his 

 family were. It was probably then that he made his foundation 

 on the Fowey. But when the " grandis et verbosa epistola venit 

 e Capreis," the scurrilous letter of Gildas, in which King Con- 

 stantine and his mother were abused with such indecency, 

 Cornwall was hardly a place where a son of the writer could 

 reside with comfort, and Winnow departed for Brittany. 



We may suspect, •« e cannot be certain, that he rejoined his 

 father at Ehuys, and that he was appointed bishop of Vannes 

 after the fall of the disreputable Macliau in 577, and that he is 

 the Eunius bishop of Vannes mentioned by Gregory of Tours, 

 who was sent to Chilperic by Weroc II, count of Broweroc, on 

 an embassy. Chilperic was highly incensed with the count and 

 sent Eunius into banishment at Augers, where he died 580. 



Eunius is a latinisation of Wuenno. The G was not intro- 

 duced into names beginning with TT till the 10th century. He 

 may be the Guenin or Gwennin, bishop of Vannes, commemorated 

 in the Vannes calendars on August 19, although in the lists he is 

 sometimes put before Modestus, who preceded Macliau, and some- 

 times as later. 



S. WiNWALOE, Abbot, Confessor, 

 This remarkable man Avas sou of Fragan or Brychan, 

 cousin of Cado, duke of Cornwall. For some unknown reason 

 Fragan resolved on migrating to Armorica, and he took with him 



