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of Bath Abbey, where tbe festival of the Saint was observed on 

 May 16. (Bath Calendar, circ. 1383, in Brit. Mus., add : MSS. 

 10, 628.) 



In the Welsh Calendars and Exeter Calendars it is also on 

 May 16. 



At Crantock, in Cornwall, the Feast is on the Sunday 

 nearest to May 16. 



A brother of S. Carantoc was S. Pedr, according to the 

 Welsh genealogists, and it is rather remarkable that a holy Well 

 bearing the title of S. Pedyr should be found in the adjoining 

 Parish of S. Columb Minor. 



In art, S. Carantoc should be represented as a Bishop 

 holding a scroll, Seanchus Mor inscribed on it, and with a spade, 

 also a dove should be figured, bearing a chip or shaving of 

 wood. 



John of Teignmouth indeed says that, ** whithersoever this 

 holy man went, an angel of our Lord, in the likeness of a dove, 

 accompanied him." The name Carantoc or Carannog, signifies 

 the crowned or tonsured. 



Owing to the tangle that has been made of the biographies 

 of the two Saints bearing the same or similar names, I think it 

 advisable here to subjoin that of the second Cairnech. 



This Saint was the son of Saran said in the legend to have 

 been one of the Irish who obtained sovereignty in Britain, 

 " and he established his power over the Saxons and Picts." 



Colgan gives the genealogy of Saran as follows. He was 

 son of Colchu, son of Tuathal, son of Pedhlim, son of Fiachra 

 Cassan, son of Colla da Crioch. Fiachra Araidh, or Cass, was 

 King of Ulster in 236. 



Saran was an obstinate pagan and was King in Dal 

 Araidh, and opposed S. Patrick when he visited Ulster. How- 

 ever the apostle proceeded to found a church at Q-lenavy near 

 Lough Neagh. Whilst he was thus engaged, Saran came up, 

 caught him by the hand and roughly endeavoured to thrust him 

 away. Patrick thereupon cursed him that he should inherit 

 neither heaven nor earth. However Conla the brother of Saran 

 gave him lands, and received in return the benediction of the 

 Apostle. 



