Quite - as in St Saviour, St Cross etc. Reiss's point is that Holy Sunday
becomes St Sunday, but that there is independent evidence of cults of the
image of the Sunday Christ, money left for candles in front of the
paintings etc.
The problem with the St Sunday cult is that there are saints (Dominic,
Sawyl) whose names could be translated as St Sunday. (There was a St
Pulchere or similar who came up in the medieval-religion discussion: but I
suspected that of being a fiction.)
I don't know of any St Dominic's Wells in this country - but I wouldn't be
surprised to find a few in continental Europe. and while I think Jones may
be wrong and the Kidwelly well may have to do with the cult of the Sunday
Christ, the well of St Sawel in Llansawel is perhaps more likely to be the
Welsh personal name Sawyl.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
(Department of Humanities and Science
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