Mybbard and Mancus

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

Mybbard

Mybbard also known as Calrogus was a 6th century hermit and saint[1] and 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 is said to be interred within the shrine (scrinio) of Cardinham Church. Mybbard is regarded as the patron saint of Cardinham.[3]

Mancus

Mancus, his companion and also a hermit, 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.[4]

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."[5]

References

  1. ↑ Farmer, David Hugh. (1978). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ Lanteglos accessdate=25 September 2016}}
  3. ↑ The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies; by Thomas Taylor (Longmans, Green and Co.) p. 126.
  4. ↑ The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies; by Thomas Taylor (Longmans, Green and Co.)
  5. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "William Worcester". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 821.
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