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He is identified by Mr. Shearman {Isca Patriciana) with the 

 Irish professor who carried into Ai'morica the Book of Cuilmenn. 

 As no other copy existed in the island, a deputation was sent by 

 the chief poet, in 580, to Brittany to recover it. This is probable 

 enough. Maugan is venerated in Brittany as a founder of 

 La Meaugon. It is also likely that an institution such as Ty 

 Gwyn should have branches in Cornwall and in Armorica, as 

 places for recruiting students and missionaries for the work 

 undertaken by the mother house. 



The feast at Mawgan in Meneage is June 18. 



The day of the saint's pardon at La Meuagon is June 19. 



The feast at Mawgan in Pyder is July 25. 



This is the day of his commemoration in the Irish Calendars 

 as Ninnio the Aged. 



There is in these calendars a second commemoration as 

 Mancen the Wise, on January 2. 



He is included in the Exeter Litany of the 10th century as 

 Sanctus Maucan, and is placed between S. Winnow and S. Grildas. 



A difficv-lty may be felt in accepting the change from n into 

 u ov w in the name. But this has taken place even in Irish, 

 wherein he is called indiscriminately Mancen and Meugint. Not 

 only is the n often confounded with u in script, but also on the 

 tongue, thus Z«?^ has in several instances become Laii. 



The churches in- Cornwall dedicated to S. Mawgan or 

 Meugint are but the two, one in Pyder and the other in Meneage. 

 That in Brittany Lan Meaugeon now La Meaugon is on the 

 narrow rocky valley of the Grouet, near S. Brieuc, there is also S. 

 Maugean in Hie et Yilaine. 



In Art, S. Maugan should be represented in black habit, 

 with a book and a staff, and with his foot on a harp, as indicating 

 that he had abandoned the hereditary profession of bard for the 

 Christian ministry and as teacher. 



At La Meaugon, Cotes du Nord, near S. Brieuc, he is 

 represented in stained glass of the 15th cent., vested in chasuble 

 and holding in his hands a pyx. 



