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S. LiDY, Virgin, Abbess. 



The body of S. Lidy reposed at S. Issey. She has been 

 confounded with S. Elid or Lide of Scilly by Grandisson and 

 others. Lidy has been corrupted into Gidgey {see S. Gidgey). 



S. Lo or Laudus, Bishop, Confessor. 



Lo, Laudatus or Llewdad, was an Armorican, a son of Alan, 

 and a member of the congregation of S. lUtyd. He was 

 afterwards dean of the College of S. Padarn in Cardiganshire. 

 He returned to his native Brittany, and became Bishop of 

 Coutance, and was consecrated in 528, He assisted at the 

 second and third councils of Orleans in 536 and 538. He 

 attended the funeral of S. Paternus, of Avranches, about 565. 

 He is said to have given his patrimony to his church. His death 

 took place about 568. 



There was a chapel dedicated to him at Veryan, in ruins 

 when Leland visited it. Mabe church is actually a chapel 

 dedicated to S. Lo or Laudus. At Broadwood Widger, in Devon, 

 is an holy well in a wood, called Slew, possibly a corruption of S. 

 Llewdad. 



His day, as observed in Cornwall, according to the Bodmin 

 Antiphonary, was September 21, but this is an error of either 

 William of Worcester or Nasmith, for September 22, the day on 

 which commemorated at Coutance, and in the Galilean and 

 Roman Martyrologies. 



His life in Smet : Catalogus hagiographicorum Bibl. Lat. in 

 Bibliotheca Nat. Parisinesis, Brussels, 1889, 1, pp. 496-500. See 

 also Pigeon (A) Yies des Saints du diocese de Coutance .... avec 

 leurs Actes anciens en Latin, Avranches, 1892 (T. I). 



In Art, S. Lo is represented with a fiery dove, which is said 

 to have appeared when he stood at the altar. 



S. LuDGVAN, Abbot, Confessor. 



The parish of Ludgvan appears in Domesday as Luduham. 

 In the Exeter Transcrij^t as Luduam. In the Episcopal Registers 



