ous to prepare himself for his passage to eternity
in close retirement., he passed into Cornwall, where he led an
eremitical life, near the Severn sea, fifteen miles from Padstow.
Certain disciples joined him, and by his words and example formed
themselves to a true spirit of Christian piety and humility. In this
place he closed his mortal pilgrimage by a happy death: a town upon the
spot is to this day called from him St. Piran's in the Sands, and a
church is there dedicated to God in his memory, where was formerly a
sanctuary near St. Mogun's church, upon St. Mogun's creek.[1] See John
of Tinmouth, Usher, &c., collected by Henschenius: also Leland's
Collections, published by Hearne, t. 3, pp. 10 and 174.

Footnotes:
1. A great number of other Irish saints retired to Cornwall, where many
towns and churches still retain their names. Thus St. Burian's is so
called from an Irish virgin called Buriana, to whose church and
college here king Athelstan, in 936, granted the privilege of
sanctuary. See Leland. Collect t. 3, pp. 7, 8.

ST. IA,

WAS daughter to an Irish nobleman, and a disciple of St. Barricus; Iae
and Erwine, and many others, came out of Ireland into Cornwall, and
landed at Pendinas, a stony rock and peninsula. At her request Dinan, a
lord of the country, built there a church, since called St. Ies,
eighteen miles from St. Piran's in the Sands, on the Severn. St
Carantoke's is two miles above St. Piran's. Ies stands two miles from
Lannant; St. Erth is a parish church two miles above Lannant. St. Cua and
St. Tedy's parishes are situated in the same part. St. Lide's island,
where her tomb was formerly visited by the whole country, still retains
her name. See the life of St. Ia quoted by Leland, Coll. t. 3, p. 11.

ST. BREACA, V.

SHE was born in Ireland on the borders of Leinster and Ulster, and
consecrated herself to God in a religious state under the direction of
St. Bridget, who built for her a separate oratory, and afterwards a
monastery, in a place since called the field of Breaca. She afterwards
passed into Cornwall in company with abbot Sinnin, a disciple of St.
Patrick, Maruan, a monk, Germoch, or Gemoch, king Elwen, Crewenna, and
Helen. St. Breaca landed at Revyer, otherwise called Theodore's castle,
situated on the eastern bank of the river Hayle, long since, as it
seems, swallowed up by the sands on the coast of the northern sea of
Cornwall. Tewder, a Welshman, slew part of this ho