450 OORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



her other daughter, Non, at Pelynt. For the determination of 

 the saints we can have no better guide than the dedications 

 of surrounding churches and chapels. 



I suspect accordingly that we have in Cornwall chapels to 

 Anne, the wife of Grynyr, 

 Anne, the wife of Amwn Dhu. 

 Anne, the handmaid of Madrun. 



In conclusion, a word on the cult of S. Anne in Brittany. 



The celebrated pilgrimage-chapel of S. Anne d' Aurai, in 

 the parish of Pluneret in Morbihan, was certainly not originally 

 dedicated to the mother of the B. Virgin, whose name is only 

 known through an apocryphal gospel. There was a village 

 about a camp called Oaer-Anna or Keranna, named after the 

 Mother of the Q-ods of the Pagan population, that was destroyed 

 in the year 700. On the 7th of March, 1625, a peasant named 

 Yves Nicolazic, whilst working in his field, dug up a statue 

 which he at once concluded was the Anna after whom the hamlet 

 was named, and as he knew of no other Anne than the mother 

 of the Virgin, rushed to the conclusion that it represented her. 

 His imagination next induced him to think he had dreamed of 

 her. This was the origin of the celebrated pilgrimage, which 

 was organised by the Carmelites in 1627. A new church has 

 been built on the spot which was consecrated in 1877. It is a 

 pretentious structure. Here there is a fountain of S. Anne with 

 statue and three basins. 



S. Anthony, Martyr, 

 It does not much concern us who was the Antonius or 

 Antoninus, Martyr, to whom both the churches of S. Anthony 

 in Meneage and S. Anthony in Roseland, and probably also 

 Anthony by Saltash are dedicated ; for the title given to these 

 churches arises entirely out of a misconception. In both the 

 former cases the church occupies a tongue of land between 

 the sea and a creek, and at Anthony it is on a neck of land 

 leading to a promontory. In both the former cases these 

 small peninsulas had been fortified, and there can exist no 

 manner of doubt that the same was the case formerly with 

 regard to the Mount Edgcumbe tongue of land, though the 

 earthworks have disappeared under cultivation. 



