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A maxim attributed to her is : " There is no amiability like 

 cheerfulness," i.e. nothing is so loveable as a sunny spirit. 



Whether Advent was a shrine greatly resorted to by 

 amorous Camelfordians cannot now be said. The church is 

 annexed to Lanteglos, and owing to this circumstance meets 

 with no notice in the Episcopal Registers. 



Dr. Borlase states that Advent parish church was originally 

 dedicated to S. Tathan, as the name occurs, says he, in old 

 deeds. Sir John Maclean quotes deeds in which the name is 

 spelled S. Tawthan (1559), S. Adwen (1572), Tathene alias 

 Adventte (1601), &c. But the "Inquisitio Nonarum" is the 

 true authority for a dedication. We do not know that S. 

 Tathan, the brother of S. Samson, ever left Gwent. 



Mr. E. J. Hurdon of Camelford tells me that he has made 

 diligent enquiries among the oldest people of Advent but can- 

 not learn of any feast or revel-day there. He says "Advent in 

 my young days was almost unknown by that name, and was 

 called by the inhabitants, S. Tain or S. Tane." 



The day of S. Dwynwen is January 25. 



S. Agnks, Virgin Martyr. 



The church and parish that bear this title were subject to 

 Perranzabuloe. Hals says that the church was built in 1484, 

 and consecrated by Archbishop Courtenay, but Tonkin's notes 

 show that a chapel had been there in 1396. The title does not 

 occur in any of the earlier episcopal registers. 



That there may have been a chapel here from Celtic times 

 is more than probable. There is a holy well in a glen leading 

 to the sea, and the chapel attached to it was pulled down in 1780. 

 The well was at one time much resorted to. This speaks of an 

 earlier dedication than to S. Agnes, as the holy wells specially 

 belonged to Celtic saints. The Cornish call the parish S. Anne's. 

 Agnes, Annis, and Anne, are forms of the same name. Never- 

 theless, it is conceivable that this may have been the earlier 

 dedication. S. Agnes in the Scilly Isles is also certainly a late 

 alteration of another Celtic name. At any rate the Anne 

 commemorated would not be the mother of the B.V.M. {^see 

 under S. Anne). 



