38 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



The Irish have no record of the death of Medran ; it is 

 therefore probable that he accompanied his master to Cornwall, 

 and there continued till he died. 



His name occurs in the Irish Martyrologies on June 6. 



He is not to be confounded with another saint of the same 

 name, who was a disciple of S. Comgall, and is commemorated 

 on September 15 in the Scottish Calendars. 



The Feast at Madron is on May 17, which is the day- 

 following the commemoration of his brother Odran. 



The two boys came to Kieran about 480. "We may suppose 

 that Madron died about 540. 



S. Madron's well was formerly famous for the miraculous 

 cures supposed to be effected by the water. At the present time, 

 the people go in crowds to the well on the first Sunday in May, 

 when the Wesleyans hold a service there, and a sermon is 

 preached, after which divination goes on by dropping pins, 

 pebbles, and little crosses of rush -pith into the water. 



S. Madron should be represented as an abbot holding a 

 lighted lamp or lantern. 



S. Malo, Bishop, Confessor. 



A moor in Mullion is named after S. Malo, but there is no 

 evidence that a chapel stood there with this dedication. 



S. Manacca, Virgin, Abbess. 



The church of Manaccan or Minster, was formerly a 

 monastic establishment, probably at its first institution for 

 women. 



Manacca, according to popular tradition, was either sister or 

 nurse to S. Levan. 



In Bishop Stapeldon's Register, 1308, the church is called 

 "ecclesia Stee Manacse in Menstre." No Minster would be 

 without a founder, but it is not easy to discover who the founder 

 or rather foundress here was. 



