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It is probable that Achebran came to Cornwall with S. 

 Senan and made a settlement in the Lizard district, but its 

 fame and that of its founder were eclipsed later by that of S. 

 Kieran ; or he may have been a disciple of the latter saint, as 

 he came from the South of Ireland, like S. Kieran, and later 

 in life he may have united himself to the community of S. Senan. 



Day of S. Achebran, Oebrhan, or Kevern, January 28. 



S. Aldhelm, Bishop, Confessor. 



There is a chapel in S. Kew, licensed 24th May, 1405, 

 dedicated to this saint, at Chapel Amble. It may have been a 

 private chapel belonging to a manorial lord of English extraction. 

 It is in the district saturated with Gwentian-Brecknocian 

 influence. Aldhelm, B. of Sherborne, wrote a remonstrance to 

 Q-eraint, King of Damnonia in 705, on the peculiarities of the 

 ecclesiastical observances of the Celtic Church in the "West, which 

 he emphatically condemned. A dedication to him in N. 

 Cornwall is anomalous and not easily explicable. 



He died 709, and his day is May 25. 



For his life see Bonhoff (L.), Aldhelm von Malmesbury, 

 Dresden, 1894. 



S. Allen, Confessor. 



There are saints of a somewhat similar name who must be 

 distinguished. 



1. Elwyn, an Irishman, one of the companions of la, 



Breaca, and Euny, who settled in West Cornwall, 

 (about whom later) ; 



2. Elian Geimiad, or the Pilgrim, a friend of S. Cuby. 

 The saint who has given his name to the church of S. Allen 



I take to be this latter. His father was Galgu-Eeiddog, and his 

 mother, S. Canna, daughter of Tewdrig, son of Emyr Llydau, 

 and consequently, cousin to S. Samson and S. Padarn. 



Elian and Cuby were together at Holyhead, in Anglesey, 

 and were wont to meet daily to converse on matters of religion. 

 {See under 8. Cuby). 



