514 CORNISH DEDICATIONB. 



The conversion of Conan, at Pencarrow, led to the formation 

 of S. Breoc's settlement, a very large parish, at Wadebridge. 

 The conversion of another Prince, at Oastle-an-Dinas, or Rialton, 

 may have been the occasion of the formation of the two parishes 

 of Columb Major and Minor, near Newquay, with an acreage of 

 17,605. 



The only other dedication to 8. Columba in the West of 

 England is that of the village of Culbone, on the Western 

 headland of Porlock Bay. The dedication of the church is to 

 S. Culbone, which is a corruption, apparently, of Columbanus. 

 But as this cannot be Columbanus of Luxeuil, we may suspect 

 that we have here the same Columba of Tyr-da-glas as at Columb 

 in Cornwall. 



On leaving his settlement in Britain, Columba returned to 

 Ireland, where his brother, Coirpre gave him a site ; there 

 Columba established a monastery, and placed his disciple Cronan 

 in charge of it. " Oh, Master !" exclaimed the latter, " I had 

 set my heart on my place of Resurrection being with thee." 

 " So it shall be, in a fashion," said Columba, and he cut o£P one 

 of his own fingers. "There," said he, "bury that and make your 

 grave by it." He went thence to Clonenagh, in Queen's County, 

 and made a settlement, and remained there over a twelvemonth. 



He made a great many other foundations, and is reported to 

 have cured the deafness of a boy named Setna, whom he found 

 herding swine on a mountain. He ended his days on Iniskeltra, 

 but, according to his heart's desire, his body was finally trans- 

 ferred to Tyr-da-glas. It is said of him that such was his 

 gentleness, that the wild birds came about him and played, 

 flapping their wings in his face. 



A disciple named Nadcuim, said to him " How is it that we 

 frighten the birds away, but they go to you readily ?" " Why 

 should birds avoid a bird ?" he answered, playing on his name 

 Columba, that signifies " a dove." 



When S. Finian of Clonard was dying, he sent for Columba, 

 who gave him the last communion. This was in 552. He him- 

 self died very soon after, in fact in the same year. 



The day of S. Columba of Tyr-da-glass is December 13, in 

 the Irish Martyrologies. He is mentioned in the Eestology of 



