48 COENISH DEDICATIONS. 



A S. Maoduit, of Kill Moduit, in Gralway, is entered in the 

 Irish, martyrologies, but of him nothing whatever is known. 

 His day is Feb. 10. 



There are several dedications to S. Modez in Brittany. 

 Saint Maudez, Cotes du Nord, has two fine granite crosses in the 

 church-yard . 



S. Mawgan, Abbot, Confessor. 



Mawgan is the same as the Welsh Meugaint and the Irish 

 Mancen or Maucen. 



Meu or Maw is the Welsh equivalent of the Irish Mo, a 

 common prefix ; and Meugaint signifies " My illustrious One." 



There were several saints of the same name, or with names 

 very similar, but there are two alone between whom we have to 

 decide which is the saint who came to Cornwall. 



One of these is Monin, Mancen, or Maucan, son of 

 Dubhtach, chief bard to King Laoghaire. The other is Meugaint, 

 son of Gwyndaf Hen, first cousin to S. Samson. His mother was 

 Grwenonwy, a sister of Anna, mother of S. Samson, as his father 

 was brother to Amwn the black, father of S. Samson. 



The Cornish Mawgan is most probably the former, because 

 his settlement in Meneage is among the Irish colonists, and that 

 in Pyder is almost in connexion with the chain along North 

 Cornwall, within a few miles of Perranzabuloe and Carantoc ; 

 and if my conjecture be right that S. Columba was the abbot of 

 Tir da Glas, then close to a very large Irish settlement, there also. 



Another reason for the identification is that the Feast of S. 

 Mawgan in Meneage is on the same day as that of the Irish 

 saint. 



There can be no question as to which was the most important 

 man of the two. The cousin of S. Samson lived at a later 

 period, and was confessor and chajDlain in the monastery of S. 

 Illtyd, and afterwards superior of the college of S. Dubricius at 

 Caerleon. In his old age he retired to Bardsey, where he died 

 about the middle of the 6th century. The only churches 

 connected with him by name are S. Maughan's in Monmouthshire 

 and Capel Meugan in Anglesey, 



