520 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



However, one day King Grallo lost his way wlien hunting, 

 and arrived hungry at the cell of the saint. Corentine was obliged 

 then to cut a large slice out of the back of his fish. The king's 

 cook, without whom Grallo prudently did not lose himself, sco:ffed 

 at the small supply, but as he began to fry the slice of fish, it 

 multiplied in the pan sufficiently to satisfy the king and all who 

 came up to the hermitage. Grallo was naturally curious to see 

 the fish itself, and Corentine took him to the fountain, where they 

 found the creature frolicking about quite uninjured. An attend- 

 ant of the king tried his knife on the fish, and the wound 

 remained unhealed till Corentine discovered what had been done, 

 restored the fish to soundness, and bade it depart lest it should 

 get into mischief again through the concourse of the curious, who 

 would be sure to come to the fountain on hearing of the miracle. 

 The prose for the feast of S. Corentine in the Quimper Breviary 

 says that it was the bishop of Leon who tried his knife on the 

 fish, but the lesson for the festival in the Leon Breviary repudi- 

 ates the charge, and lays the blame on an attendant of the king. 

 Grallo, charmed with the miracles he had witnessed, presented 

 the forest and the hunting-lodge of Plou-Yodiern to the saint. 



Corentine had several disciples, but the most eminent of these 

 was S. Winwaloe. 



Corentine is believed to have died about 460. What was his 

 connexion with Cornwall is difficult to determine. It is probable 

 that Cury was a foundation made by Breton settlers planted by 

 King Athelstan after 935. 



In the Exeter Martyrology his feast is marked on May Ist^ 

 but in the parish of Cury it is observed on November 2nd. 



In the dioceses of Leon, Quimper, and S. Brieuc, his day 

 is December 12, in that of Nantes, on Dec. 11. 



Cury parish, it will be noticed, adjoins that of Gunwaloe, 

 dedicated to his illustrious disciple, S. Winwaloe. 



In Britany S. Corentine is invoked against paralysis. He 

 has there numerous churches and chapels, especially in the dio- 

 cese of Quimper. At Serignac are two chapels under his 

 invocation. 



