384 THE president's address. 



saints in most favour are late, S. William, and S. Ivo ; Charles 

 de Bourbon is at the present moment rising rapidly in popular 

 favour. On the other hand, the calendar is invaded by foreigners- 

 Of Italians there are fourteen in January and February, whereas 

 of early Breton Saints there are but five admitted in the entire 

 year. 



In that striking story of Ferdinand Fabre "L'Abbe 

 Tigrane," the Bishop of Lormieres is represented in his Orand 

 Seminary turning out the Professors as not sufiQ.ciently 

 Ultramontane to please him, and when the teachers murmur, he 

 asks with what do they reproach him. " With what ?" asks the 

 Professor of Ecclesiastical History. "In your passion for reform 

 you have not suffered us to commemorate our own Local Saints, 

 you have so to speak abolished the Proper of the Diocese, one of 

 the most ancient and most glorious of the Martyrologies of 

 France." What the novelist represents as being done at 

 Lormieres has been done ruthlessly throughout Brittany. I 

 rejoice to see that in the calendar of the Truro Diocese, the 

 Celtic Saints are annually included. These men were the fathers 

 of our faith. 



It will be said that in treating of the Early History of 

 Cornwall I have spoken more of the saints than of the princes, 

 but that has been inevitable, for of the latter we know very 

 little. 



The first of whom we learn anything was Constantino the 

 Blessed, whose brother Aldor, called by the Bretons Audrien, 

 settled in Armorica, and married a sister of S. Oermanus of 

 Auxerre. 



Constantino was contemporary with Yortigern of evil 

 repute. His death took place about 460. He was the father of 

 Erbin, prince of Damnonia, his brother was the great Aurelius 

 Ambrosius, who headed the opposition to Vortigern, and resisted 

 the Saxons with vigour. 



Erbin, I believe, we find at S. Ervan. He was father of 

 Gerans or Geraint I, Prince of Damnonia, who married Enid, 

 one of the most beautiful characters of historic romance. 

 Geraint was killed in the battle of Llongborth or Langport in 

 522. Geraint and Enid had as son, Selyf or Solomon, Duke of 



