Celtic and Old English Saints 24 September =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Mawgan * St. Conald * St. Berchtun, Abbot of Beverley, Disciple of Saint John of Beverley =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
St. Mawgan ---------------------------------------------------- A Welsh monk, possibly abbot of a settlement in Pembrokeshire. Mawgan crossed the Channel with Brioc. In Cornwall he is associated with Mawgan-in-Meneage, four miles south-east of Helston; and in the north of the County, near Newquay, the Vale of Mawgan bears his name. In that latter place is the Church of Mawgan-in-Pydar. The oldest part of the present building is its 13th.century tower, but the church is said to stand on the site of a Celtic Monastery. (Toulson) The Five parishes of St Anthony, Manaccan, St Martin, St Mawgan and Keverne form that part of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall known as the Meneage, "The Land of Monks". The registers of the see of Exeter reveal that there were possibly nine chapels here in the middle ages, including ones dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and St Margaret. 700 AD -Probably the first church on the site - note the neighbouring Monastic Manor lands of Gwarthandrea. St Maugan was a Abbot-Bishop from Pembrokeshire who travelled from Mawgan Porth near Newquay to Mawgan Creek in Meneage (the land of Monks), en route to Brittany , especially the St Malo area. His inscription appears on one of the large sanctuary candlesticks, and his carved figure holding a crozier is on the outside keystone of the west tower window. 800 AD - St Mawgan's Cross in the village green, 6'9''high, and once had the inscription "Cnegumi Fili Genaius". St Conald (Chuniald) priest ---------------------------------------------------- He was on of those eminent Irish Missionaries who left their native country to carry the faith of Christ into Germany. He was for many years the constant companion of St.Rupert, Bishop of Saltzburg, in all his apostolical functions. His Feast is kept on 24th.September, the day of the Translation of his relics. See Colgan, Act.SS.p 769. Butlers Lives of the Saints These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints *****************************************
