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S. CiiEBK, Bishop, Confessor. 



It is very uncertain wlio is the patron of the church bearing 

 this title near Liskeard. That he was esteemed to have been a 

 bishop appears from his being so represented in one of the S. 

 Neot windows. A Clarus is held to have been the first bishop of 

 Nantes, in the 3rd century, but of him absolutely nothing was 

 known ; in fact, at Nantes, the Common of Bishops Confessors 

 was employed for his commemoration. At the revision of the 

 Nantes Breviary he was converted into a disciple of S. Peter. 

 M. de la Borderie has completely demolished his claims to be 

 earlier than the 3rd century, and to having had more than a 

 name in the lists of the prelates of Nantes.* 



He is out of the question as to being regarded as the 

 original founder of S. Cleer's church, and as to having the Holy 

 Well there attributed to him. 



Nor, — in the face of the representation of him in Episcopal 

 robes at S. Neot, — can we hold him to be 8. Clarus, Priest and 

 Martyr. 



It is more probable that the church at 8. Cleer was a second 

 and later settlement of 8. Clether or Cledog. He may have 

 migrated there from his cell under Laneast Down, to a more 

 populous neighbourhood, and one in which his labours might 

 prove more fruitful. 



It is by no means unlikely that 8. Cledog was transformed 

 at a later period to 8. Clarus of Nantes, just as 8. Fili has 

 been converted into 8. Pelix, another Nantes bishop, and 8. 

 Ervan and 8. Erme into 8. Hermes ; Curig into Cyriacus, and 

 8. Piala into Felicitas. 



8. Clarus of Nantes is commemorated on October 10, which 

 is also the day marked in the Breviary of 8. Brieuc. 



8. Clement, Prince, Confessor. 



All the Welsh pedigrees of the 8aints that mention 8. 

 Petrock, state that he was the son of Clement, a chieftain in 

 Cornwall; but the liife of 8. Cadoc says that he was son of 



* Etudes Historiques Bretonnes, 2nd Ser., Paris, 1888. 



