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spot must have been halloAved by some sacred association. May 

 we not conjecture that it marks the site of the station which Cuby 

 and his companions occupied ; and that thence they went forth, 

 day by day, to the neighbouring town and adjacent villages, to 

 proclaim the glad tidings of salvation? Of the labours of the 

 Saint on his native soil no tradition has been handed down ; but 

 the name of the parish where he laboured is a witness that he 

 won the hearts of his generation, and left an im-perishable me- 

 morial behind him. 



There is also another parish in the neighbourhood v/hich has 

 enshrined his memory. It was in the old time called Landege,* 

 or the Church of Keby, now corrupted into Kea, and it embraced 

 the whole of Truro and Kenwyn. We may suppose then that 

 Cuby and Kea were the chief centres of our saint's mission work. 

 At both these places there were oratories built by him, which 

 subsequently became parish Churches, and Cells, from which he 

 himself and his fellow-labourers went forth to do the Lord's work 

 amongst the untaught heathen around them. It is only thus that 

 we can, consistently with ancient usage, account for the names of 

 those two parishes ; for we never find that the Celtic Christians 

 erected Churches in memory of holy men, or that they dedicated 

 them to patron saints, as was the invariable practice of the Eoman 

 Church.t Generally speaking, whenever a Church bears the name 

 of a saint not included in the Roman Calendar, that saint was its 

 founder. On the spot where it stands, he first kindled the light 

 of the gospel ; there he built his house of prayer ; and thence- 

 forward, through all its mutations, it continued indelibly associ- 

 ated with his name. 



There is one other place in the county where the name of Cuby 

 has been handed down. He is the patron saint of the parish 

 Church of Duloe ; and there is a road in the parish known as 



* In the Valor of Pope Nicholas, circa 1291, Kea is called " Ecclesia de 

 Landeghe " ; and in the Domesday Survey, " Landighe." 



Lan. in Cornish, signifies an inclosure, in its primary sense, although 

 in composition it may sometimes be regarded as equivalent to the Welsh 

 Llan, or Church. In Domesday Book all the Cornish parishes, of British 

 origin, have with one exception the word Lan prefixed to their names. 



f Rees's Essay on the Welsh Saints, p. 57. 



