Mannacus

Manaccan church

Manaccus or Manacca 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.

In Cornwall the parish of Manaccan in the Diocese of Truro[1] is named for him.[2] His feast day is 14 October.

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.[3]

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."[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Manaccan: St Manaccus & St Dunstan, Manaccan.
  2. ↑ Saint Manacca at Saints SQPN.com.
  3. ↑ The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies; by Thomas Taylor (Longmans, Green and Co.)
  4. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "William Worcester". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 821.



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