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quern, he paused, burst out laughing, and exclaimed, thinking he 

 was alone, "Who would suppose that I, who do this, am a king !" 

 but he was overheard, and so his condition was discovered. 

 Besides the church of Constantino, in the deanery of Penwith, 

 there is that just mentioned, on the sands in the parish of 8. 

 Merryn, on the site of his oratory when doing penance after his 

 conversion. The church also of Milton Abbot, in Devon, owns 

 him as patron, and there was a chapel dedicated to him in 

 Marazion. 



Near the ruined church in S. Merryn, is the Holy Well. 



The feast of S. Constantino, in Kerrier, is March 9th. At 

 S. Merryn, it is on March llth ; which is the day in the Aberdeen 

 Breviary. 



In the Bodmin Antiphonary, as we learn from WiUiam of 

 Worcester, he was entered on March 9, as King and Martyr. In 

 the Aberdeen Breviary he is said to have been assailed by 

 heathen in Kintyre, who knocked him down, and cut off his 

 right arm. Having called his brethren about him, he blessed 

 them, and bled to death. The same Breviary makes him son of 

 Padarn, King of Cornwall, instead of Oadwr, an error through 

 the name of Padarn being more familiar than the other. His 

 death is put down variously at 576 and 600. 



In the parish of S. Constantino, in Kerrier, is a Merthan, 

 where, perhaps, there may have been a Martyrium, a memorial 

 chapel to him as a martyr. 



In Grandisson's time, there was a legendarium in the church 

 of S. Constantino (1331) which certainly contained his legend 

 complete. 



There was a chapel of S. Constantino in lUogan. 



The Irish Martyrologies notice him. In that of Donegal, in 

 a later hand, he is entered as " Constantino, royal monk at 

 Eathain with Mochuda, son of Fergus" on March 11. The Mar- 

 tyrology of Tamlacht says that this was Constantino the Briton, 

 or else Constantino, son of Fergus, who was of the Piets. 



Constantino, monk of Eathain, flourished about A.D. 588, 

 and Constantino, son of Fergus, died in 820. Constantino, the 

 king, is mentioned in the Felire of Oengus, as the abbot of 

 Rathen in King's County. It is most probable that several of 

 the same name have been confounded together. 



