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- ↑ Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain , volume 3, p. 38 (1911).
- ↑ Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints , volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).
- ↑ Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000pp225.)
- ↑ Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Routledge, 2003) p86.
- ↑ Bowen, E. G. Saints, Seaways and Settlements, p. 189 (University of Wales Press 1969). ISBN 0-7083-0650-0 (2nd ed. 1977).
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