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&c. Maruan is either a mistake by Leland, or of the printer, for 

 Mo-ruan. The saint is no other than S. Ruan {see S. Euan). 



S. Matemana, Widow. 



Ma.dryn was the daughter of Vortimer, and wife of Ynyr 

 Q-went, king of that portion of Monmouthshire which lies on 

 the east side of the Usk. Its capital was Caer Gwent. Her 

 sister Anne was married to Glynyr, of Caer Gawch, and mother 

 of S. Non. Madryn had five children, four of whom are 

 numbered among the saints, by the Welsh. 



One of these was a girl named Dogwe, who fell in love with 

 a young carpenter engaged in building a palace for her father. 

 The king was vastly incensed, nor did the mother relish the 

 connexion, but the girl was headstrong, and the parents had to 

 give way. The carpenter, however, was not so amorous as Dogwe, 

 or felt overwhelmed with the honour, and he deserted his wife, 

 being ashamed, we are told, at having only a humble house to 

 which to conduct her. The young wife then retired from the 

 world and embraced the religious life under S. Beuno. 



Ynyr received S. Tathan, an Irish Saint, when he came to 

 Gwent, and settled him at Caer Gwent, where he formed a college 

 and became the ecclesiastical director to the king and his family. 



S. Cadoc was trained by S. Tathan, and Tathan's holy life 

 and teaching deeply impressed Madryn. 



For what follows we have only popular tradition. 



In the troubles that ensued on the bad government of 

 Vortigern, and the wrath of the Britons against him for having 

 introduced the Saxons into the country, that prince was compelled 

 to fly from his own insurgent subjects, and took refuge in a 

 valley under Yr Eifel in Carnarvonshire, where he had a dun of 

 wood. If any reliance whatever may be placed on the History 

 of Nennius, then S. Germanus was a strong motive power in 

 causing the rebellion, but at the head of the revolted Britons 

 was Aurelius Ambrosius. 



According to the legend Madryn was with her grandfather, 

 and had with her her eldest child Ceidio, when the wooden castle 

 was surrounded and set on fire. Vortigern perished in the flames. 



