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In the church, of Lanmeur, in Finistere, is a crypt, in which 

 it is supposed that the martyred prince was buried, but his relics 

 are not there now. In this crypt are a Holy Well and a statue 

 of the Saint. 



The date of death would be about 544. 



The dedications to him in Cornwall are : — 



Mylor, where it is supposed that he was killed. The feast 

 day, however, points rather to the father Melyan, or Meliau, than 

 to the son. 



Linkinhorne (Lan-Tiern) is also dedicated to him. Here 

 there is a fine Holy Well. 



Thornecombe church in Dorset is dedicated to S. Melor. 



His body was held to be preserved at Amesbury, where he 

 had a chapel. 



The feast of S. Melor in Grandisson's Calendar is October 1 . 



This is also the day in the Sarum Breviary, and in a Norwich 

 Martyrology of the 15th century. Wilson arbitrarily gave 

 January 3, and was followed by the Bollandists. In Cressy's 

 Church History of Brittany, he is entered on August 28, which 

 was also the day of the Feast at Mylor till changed to October 

 25. 



In art, Melor should be represented with a silver right hand 

 and a brazen left foot, and a branch of hazel-nuts should be in 

 his silver hand. 



S. Menefeida or Minver, Virgin, Abbess. 



Menefi'eda is the Latin form of the name. She is reckoned 

 among the daughters of Brychan. Actually she was his grand- 

 daughter, if she was, as I suppose, the Mwynen of the Welsh 

 pedigrees, datighter of Brynach, by Corth, daughter of Brychan. 



Minver is probably Mwyn-vawr, in contradistinction to 

 Mwyn-bach. I shall shew that there is reason to hold that S. 

 Meryn was dedicated to the same saint, in which case Minver 

 would be the greater, and Meryn lesser, Mwynen, Mwynen of 

 the Welsh I take to be the Monynna of the Irish {^see Morwenna). 



