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at Eennes, on May 16, and again on June 21, In an old 

 Treguier Calendar that belonged to S. Yves, on May 15. 



Moderan is commonly called Moran in Brittany. 



Nicholas Eoscarrock says that the Feast at Lamoran is the 

 Tuesday before All Saints. 



S. MoRVETHA, Virgin. 



The church or chapel of Morvah is a dependency on Madron. 

 We should therefore suppose it to be an Irish foundation. The 

 chapel was licensed as that of 8^^ Morwetha by Bishop Stafford, 

 April 17, 1409. 



The Saint cannot be identified. 



Morvah in Welsh signifies a low tract of land by the sea 

 grown over with coarse grass, but this hardly describes the aspect 

 and lie of Morvah parish. 



There are remains of an ancient well and chapel at Trega- 

 minion, and there is a chapel- well near the beach of Chancarn. 



S. MoRWENNA, Virgin, Abbess. 



According to the Lists given by William of Worcester and 

 Leland, Morwenna was a daughter of Brychan and a sister of 

 S. Nectan. Actually, they would seem to have been grand- 

 children. The name Morwen has many forms. It has assumed 

 that of Modwenna, but both are the same as the Irish Monynna, 

 who appears in Welsh as Mwynen, daughter of Brynach the 

 Irishman, who married Brychan's daughter, Corth. This 

 Mwynen's brother, Berwyn or Gerwyn, settled in Cornwall, 

 where he was killed, and was accounted a Martyr. 



Great confusion has arisen between three Saints of similar 

 names. A writer of the name of Concubran, apparently of the 

 11th century, has fused all three into one, regardless of the 

 difference of periods in which they lived and of places in which 

 they laboured. 



There is, however, a more trustworthy life, in the Salamanca 

 Codex of Lives of Irish Saints, but even that is a fusion of two 

 quite independent lives, nearly, but not quite, contemporary, and 

 belonging to different parts of Ireland, 



