352 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



According to the Bodmin Antiphonary, S. Minver's day is 

 November 24. 



Nicolas Eoscarrock in his MS. "Lives of the Saints," now 

 in the University Library, Cambridge, written about 1610, 

 says: — "The church is a half a mile distant from the place 

 where she was said to live, and at a place called Tredresick, 

 where in my time I remember there stode a chappell also 

 dedicated to her, being less than two miles from the place where 

 her sister, S. Endelient, lived, and there is also a well of her 

 name where it is saide the Ghostlye adversarie coming to molest 

 her, as she was combing her head by the said well, she flinging 

 the combe at him enforced him to fly, who left a note behinde 

 him in a place called at this daye Topalundy, where on the Topp 

 of a rounde high Hill, there is a strange deepe Hoale (as men 

 there have by tradition) there made by the devils in avoyding 

 S. Menfre." He gives as her day November 23. 



S. Meriadoc, Bishop, Confessor. 



Meriadoc was born in Armorica about 626, and was ordained 

 by Hingweten, Bishop of Vannes, whom he succeeded in that 

 see. The date cannot be fixed with accuracy, but this is known 

 that Meriadoc's successor, Gobrian, died in 725, and we cannot 

 be far wrong in placing the occupation of the see of Vannes by 

 Meriadoc as being between 690 and 710. 



His life is singularly devoid of incident, and yet, curiously 

 enough, it was selected for one of the Cornish Miracle plays that 

 have been preserved. 



The church of Camborne is dedicated to him. 



His cult must have been introduced by the refugees from 

 Brittany in the 10th century. 



His feast is on June 1 1 . 



In Brittany several churches are dedicated to him ; one at 

 Stival, near Pontivy, where his bell is called le lonnet de Saint 

 Meriadoc. It is rung over the head of a deaf person, under the 

 supposition that it will cure him. Here are paintings in the 

 chancel representing his story, and outside the village is his Holy 

 WeU. 



