444 OOENiSH DiaJIOATIONS. 



Elian would be quite among kinsfolk in Cornwall, for his 

 father was descended from Cadrod the Whitewasher, who 

 married Q-wrgon, daughter of King Brychan, and, as already 

 intimated, he was akin to S. Samson. His attachment for S. 

 Ouby would make him acceptable to the Princes of Damnonia, 

 to whom Cuby was related. He must have been likewise in 

 Brittany, for the cathedral church of Quimper professed to 

 possess his relics, under the name of Alain, but under the name 

 of Elouan he is venerated in the parish of S. Q-wen in Cotes du 

 Nord, where a fine tomb, of the end of the 18th century, is erected 

 over his supposed remains. 



The church of Quimper, dissatisfied with its ignorance as to 

 the history of S. Alain, boldly appropriated the Legend of 8. 

 Elan de Lavaur, near Toulouse, but in so doing, was unaware 

 that this also was a fraudulent composition. The church of 

 Lavaur possessed the relics of a petty local saint, named Elan, 

 of whom no record remained, and someone connected with the 

 church deliberately adapted and altered the genuine Life of 8. 

 Amandus of Maestricht to suit the Gascon saint ; he did more, 

 he manipulated, as well, certain records of donations to the 

 church of Maestricht, to serve the purpose of the clergy of 

 Lavaur to lay claim to some estates in their own neighbourhood, 

 coveted by them. 



In Bonedd y Saint, reference is made to the History of S. 

 Elian, but the life is no longer in existence. It will be noticed 

 that the foundation of S. Allen is between two of 8. Ouby, that 

 at Tregony and that at Cubert. 



If Talland were a corruption of Llan Allen, we should 

 have him again near his friend, at Duloe. The date of his death 

 was about 560. The feast at S. Allen is on February 22 ; and 

 also on the fifth Sunday after Easter. 



In Wales, on January 13, in consequence of a stupid blunder, 

 he is identified with S. Hilary ; which came about thus : 

 Q-eimiad, Pilgrim, was misread as Cannaid, bright', and Elian 

 was confounded with Hilary, as Hilarius signifies " cheerful, 

 bright;" the identification was easy, and in Wales, Hilary is 

 called Elian Esgob (Elian the Bishop).* 



* See Bees. Essay on the Welsh Saints, 1836, p. 267. 



