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The churches dedicated to the saint in Wales, are fifty-five 

 in number, of which twenty-two are in Brecknockshire. 



At S. Stephen's in Brannel, Cornwall, is a holy Well, or 

 ancient Baptistery, called S. Bernard's well. That it was 

 dedicated to S. Bernard of Clairvaux is improbable, as Well- 

 worship was peculiarly Celtic. In Ireland, names of local saints 

 of similar sound have been changed to Bernard ; and it is probable 

 that this well is of S. Bernac or Brynach ; and possibly this may 

 have been the original dedication of the Church, afterwards 

 dedicated to S. Stephen. Indeed S. Brynach has suffered such 

 treatment in Wales. 



His symbol is a wild white sow with young pigs, as he is 

 said to have founded a church where he discovered a litter on 

 the banks of the Caman. Another symbol would be an oak 

 tree bearing loaves. 



S. Btjdoc, Abbot, Confessor. 

 There were three of this name. 



1. An abbot in the Isle of Brehat, about 470. Ard-Budoc 

 or " Budoc the exalted one," was his title. 



2. A Bishop of Dol, who succeeded S. Samson, 585. 



3. A Bishop of Vannes, about 600. 



In the life of S. Winwaloe we learn that his father, Fi'agan, 

 i.e. Brychan, committed him to the Abbot Budoc who lived in 

 the Island of Laurea, one of the Brehat Archiepelago, off the 

 North coast of Brittany. The remains of Budoc's settlement, a 

 small rectangular church and a row of bee-hive huts, are extant ; 

 and one of these huts is still fairly intact. The pattern is 

 precisely that of the Irish ecclesiastical settlements. 



There is a wonderful legend of S. Budoc, but it is based on 

 Breton ballads, and it is quite impossible to say to what Budoc 

 it refers. It relates how his mother Azenor was put in a cask, 

 and committed to the water ; how Budoc was born in the barrel, 

 and how the cask was washed ashore in Ireland. 



Of the Budoc of Cornwall and Devon we may be fairly 

 certain that he is to be identified with the tutor of S. Winwaloe. 



