Mybbard and Mancus

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Mybbard and Mancus were two Cornish saints of the 6th century.

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Meubred

Saint Meubred
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Born5th century
Ireland
Died6th century
Cardinham
Canonized Pre-Congregation
Feast Thursday before Whitsun

Mybbard (Mewbred or Mebbred),also known as Calrogus was a 6th century hermit and is a local Cornish saint [1] said to be the son of a King of Ireland.

Very little is known of his life though he is recorded as having been beheaded, with two others, by the pagan ruler Melyn ys Kynrede in what is today the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey, near Fowey, [2] Cornwall.

He was later re-invented as an Irish prince. [3] William Worcester names him as the son of an Irish king who became a Cornish hermit. [4] He was a contemporary of St Mannacus and St Wyllow. [5] An image of him carrying an extra head in his hands is included in a stained glass window in the church of St Neot alongside St Mabyn. [6]

He is said to be interred within the shrine (scrinio) of Cardinham Church. Mybbard is regarded as the patron saint of Cardinham. [7]

There is a single dedication, the church of St Meubred, Cardinham, in the Diocese of Truro. [8]

Manaccus

Manaccan church Church of St Manacca, Manaccan - geograph.org.uk - 187123.jpg
Manaccan church

Manaccus (Manaccan or Mancus) was a 6th-century monk and pre-Congregational Saint of Wales. He was abbot at Caer Gybi, Holyhead, Anglesey and worked with Saint Cybi of Caernarvon.

Mannacus may be the same person as Mancus, Mybbard's companion and also a hermit. Mancus is said, on the authority of Robert Bracey, to lie in the church of Lanreath, two miles from Fowey. However, the canons of Launceston claim he was buried in the parish of Lanteglos. [7]

Both are commemorated on the Thursday next before Whitsunday, along with Saint Wyllow, who was beheaded at the same time.

William of Worcester prefaced the account of the three martyrs by the sentence "there were three brothers under the name of St. Genesius and each carried his head, one of them archbishop of Lismore." [9]

In Cornwall the parish of Manaccan in the Diocese of Truro [10] is named for him. [11] His feast day is 14 October.

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References

  1. ↑ Farmer, David Hugh. (1978). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ Lanteglos accessdate=25 September 2016
  3. ↑ "Cardinham, St Meubred", Cornish Historic Churches Trust
  4. ↑ Doble, Gilbert Hunter (1939). A History of the Church and Parish of St. Meubred, Cardynham. Shipston on Stour: King's Stone Press. p. 97.
  5. ↑ Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (2002). Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford University Press. p. 356. ISBN   978-0-19-820394-0.
  6. ↑ Mattingly, Joanna (2003). "Pre-Reformation Saints' Cults in Cornwall - with Particular Reference to the St Neot Windows". In Cartwright, Jane (ed.). Celtic Hagiography and Saints' Cults. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 249–270. ISBN   978-0-70-831749-5.
  7. 1 2 Taylor, Thomas. The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies (Longmans, Green and Co.) p. 126.
  8. ↑ "St Meubred: Church of England Saint Dedications".
  9. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "William Worcester". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 821.
  10. ↑ Manaccan: St Manaccus & St Dunstan, Manaccan.
  11. ↑ Saint Manacca at Saints SQPN.com.
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