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and carried the man away. As, however, the horse soon after 

 stumbled, and threw the prince, who broke his thigh, in a panic 

 supposing that this was a "judgment" on him for breaking 

 sanctuary, he released the prisoner, and made his peace with 

 the abbot. 



The story is told — a sufficiently hacknied one — of Mevan 

 having delivered the neighbourhood of a dragon that lived in a 

 cave by the river Loyre. He passed his stole round the beast and 

 led it to the bank of the river, into which he precipitated it. 



This is the legendary form given to a simple fact ; that he 

 dragged an image to which idolatrous honour was paid, to the 

 water's edge, and cast it in. 



The story of the death of the Saint, and of his words to S. 

 Austell, has already been told. (See S. Austell). 



He died in 617. 



His feast is on June 21, but at Mevagissey on June 29. At 

 S. Meen, the Translation was on January 18. A Dol Calendar 

 of 1519 gives as his day May 27. At S. Mewan the feast is five 

 weeks before Christmas. 



In art, he should be represented as an Abbot with a dragon 

 at his side, held in leash by his stole. 



S. Meubred or Mybard, Hermit, Martyr. 



According to William of Worcester, Mybard was son of a 

 King of Ireland, and was also named Colrog. He settled at 

 Cardinham as a hermit, where he was murdered. His companions 

 were Mannach or Mancus and Wyllow. In the Cartulary of 

 Landevenec, in Brittany, he occurs as Sanctus Morbretus, who 

 made over his settlement at Lanrivoare to S. Winwaloe, and the 

 date of the forged deed is March 31, 955. Either he was 

 contemporary with Winwaloe, and the date is wrong, or else he 

 was a different person who gave his land to the abbey at this 

 later period. 



In the diocese of Quimper, at Ploumodiern, is a hamlet with 

 chapel, called Loc-Mybrit, and the saint is said, by tradition, to 

 have for a while led an eremitical life there, but this is the Mybard 

 who was a disciple of S. Winwaloe. 



