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A CATALOGUE OF SAINTS CONNECTED WITH CORNWALL, 



WITH AN EPITOME OF THEIR LIVES, AND LIST OF 



CHURCHES AND CHAPELS DEDICATED TO THEM. 



By The Rev. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. 



PART V. Mc—Mor. 



S. Med AN, Monk, Confessor. 



Medan, Croidan, and Dagan were disciples of St. Petrock. 

 Medan probably remained at Bodmin, for his body reposed there. 



S. Melanius, Bishop, Confessor. 



Mullion is given in the Episcopal Registers as dedicated to 

 S. Melanius. It is near Cury, dedicated to S. Corentine, and 

 to Gunwaloe, the patron of which is S. Winwaloe. It belongs 

 to the little group in the Lizard district which would seem to 

 have been colonised by the refugees from Brittany, when this 

 latter was devastated by the Northmen, and they fled to England, 

 where Athelstan found temporary homes for them. 



The feast day at Mullion is November 6, which is the day 

 of S. Melanius, Bishop of Eennes. S. Mellion also is held to 

 have the same dedication, and may possibly have a similar origin. 

 The refugees, as we know, carried away with them the relics of 

 their saints. As the Chronicle of Nantes says, after 907, 

 "Counts, Viscounts, Mactierns, all, in fact, panic stricken fled 

 and dispersed .... and there remained in Brittany only the poor 

 who tilled the land." 



S. Melanius was brought up at the court of the Breton Duke 

 Hoel I, at Eennes. He persuaded several of the youths who 

 were with him to renounce the world and become monks. On 

 the death of Amandus the Bishop, in 511, Melanius was elected 

 as his successor in the see of Eennes. He was present the same 

 year at a council held at Orleans. 



