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structed an oratory in a place which is called Guerith Karantauc ;” 
and it probably occupied the spot upon which now stands the 
Parish Church of Crantock. There the saintly old man spent the 
evening of his life in planting the Church of Christ amongst the 
Britons on the Cornish Coast; and we may be sure, from the little 
that we know of his previous history, that he must have taken a 
prominent part in that great work. A man who, in early life, 
had for conscience sake renounced military glory and a sceptre, 
and who, as a soldier of the Cross, had won the highest mark of 
confidence and honour that St. Patrick could bestow upon him, 
must have been a Christian teacher of no ordinary zeal and power. 
How long he toiled and what he endured on that rugged and 
stormy shore, we know not; but thus much we know,—that the 
light, which he helped to kindle, is still burning after the lapse 
of twelve centuries, and that, although he sought not to win 
earthly renown, his name will live for evermore. 
