Mybbard and Mancus were two
Cornish saints of the 6th century.
Meubred
Mybbard (Mewbred or Mebbred),also known as Calrogus was a 6th century
hermit
A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions.
Description
In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Ch ...
and is a local Cornish
saint 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
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, with two others, by the pagan ruler Melyn ys Kynrede in what is today the parish of
Lanteglos-by-Fowey
Lanteglos (Old kw, Nant Eglos, meaning ''church valley'') is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the east side of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey which separates it from the town and civil parish of ...
, near
Fowey,
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
.
He was later re-invented as an Irish prince.
William Worcester
William Worcester, also called William of Worcester, William Worcestre or William Botoner (1415) was an English topographer, antiquary and chronicler.
Life
He was a son of another William of Worcester, a Bristol whittawer (worker in white leather ...
names him as the son of an Irish king who became a Cornish hermit. He was a contemporary of St
Mannacus and St Wyllow. 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.
He is said to be interred within the shrine (scrinio) of
Cardinham Church. Mybbard is regarded as the
patron saint
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of
Cardinham
Cardinham ( kw, Kardhinan) (the spelling 'Cardynham' is almost obsolete) is a civil parish and a village in mid Cornwall, England. The village is approximately three-and-a-half miles (6 km), east-northeast of Bodmin. The hamlets of Fletche ...
.
[ Taylor, Thomas. ''The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies'']
(Longmans, Green and Co.) p. 126.
There is a single dedication, the church of St Meubred,
Cardinham
Cardinham ( kw, Kardhinan) (the spelling 'Cardynham' is almost obsolete) is a civil parish and a village in mid Cornwall, England. The village is approximately three-and-a-half miles (6 km), east-northeast of Bodmin. The hamlets of Fletche ...
, in the
Diocese of Truro.
Manaccus
Manaccus (Manaccan or Mancus) was a 6th-century
monk
A monk (, from el, μοναχός, ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedica ...
and
pre-Congregational Saint of Wales. He was
abbot
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at
Caer Gybi,
Holyhead,
Anglesey
Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...
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
Lanreath ( kw, Lannreydhow) is a civil parish and a village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated five miles (8 km) west-northwest of Looe. The name Lanreath (pronounced Lanreth) means 'church (Lann) of Rayd ...
, two miles from
Fowey. However, the canons of
Launceston claim he was buried in the parish of
Lanteglos.
[
Both are commemorated on the ''Thursday next before Whitsunday'', along with Saint Wyllow, who was beheaded at the same time.
]William of Worcester
William Worcester, also called William of Worcester, William Worcestre or William Botoner (1415) was an English topographer, antiquary and chronicler.
Life
He was a son of another William of Worcester, a Bristol whittawer (worker in white lea ...
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."
In Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
the parish of Manaccan
Manaccan (; kw, Manahan) is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth.
The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived ...
in the Diocese of Truro is named for him.Saint Manacca
at Saints SQPN.com. His feast day is 14 October.
See also
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Meneage
The Meneage ( kw, Menaghek or ''Manahek'') is a district in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The nearest large towns are Falmouth and Penryn. (''Note: the coordinates above are the approximate centre of the Meneage district.'')
The meaning of ...
References
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6th-century Christian martyrs
6th-century executions
Executed Irish people
Medieval Irish saints of Cornwall
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6th-century Irish people
Medieval Cornish saints
Irish expatriates in England
Irish people executed abroad
Executed Cornish people
Year of birth unknown