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I just found this
Who was St Elidyr?
The truth is, we don't know. The name may refer to St Elidur de Stackpole
who accompanied Archbishop Baldwin ion his 12th century crusade through
Wales. Or he might be a 12th century pilgrim known as Elidyr the Courteous.
Or the name might just be the result of a clerical error and refer to St
Teilo, also known as Eluid.
I was in that part a few weeks ago. Clambered over a few Celtic remains etc.
Don't worry about Elid. He'd like to damage you, for sure; but he hasn't
got the courage. Truth is he's cross with me because I want to suggest he
got off with Saint Theona and she didnt live at the same time. Perhaps.
Maybe. He's all mouth. Not... not in that sense. He proaly won't do you
much harm
L
On 12 August 2015 at 18:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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> Ps is he related to Saint Elidyr -church in Amroth???
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 August 2015 18:01
> To: 'Poetryetc: poetry and poetics'
> Subject: RE: from Elidius on Ennor
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> Lawrence bloody hell! -I had Elidus on the phone he said for you write
> some more or else -he was a bit pushy almost threatening -anyway I have
> passed the message on -so I am off the hook-you had better find that walled
> compound Cheers P eustatically
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 12 August 2015 12:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: from Elidius on Ennor
>
> Thank you.
> I can't take credit for the feast day. I don't know who does that. Part
> timers at Vehicle Registration maybe.
> I believe (?) that it was reinstituted relatively recently after a lurk of
> some centuries but am surprised to realise I do not know how one checks the
> history of such things. Not easily.
> I had a quick google on the subject of Elid, which I haven't done for
> ages, and found much waffle, usually saying he lived on St Helen's. He may
> have lived on what is now St Helen's; but like most of the now islands it
> is recent, formed by eustatic rise. It would have been he NW of the main
> island then Sure you wanted to know that.
> I celebrated by writing him. I don't especially want to be on Scilly in
> August, not without a walled compound.
> I'm not quite sure when this was written, but recently. Last few days.
> BBC Radio blasted me with the opening of Mahler's Fifth, loud trumpets you
> know - it was only brief: someone won a doughnut or something for
> recognising it - but by then I was full of Stanley Spencer thoughts,
> chucking back of green sward sheets and leaping around the graveyard in a
> glorified body. It occurred to me that those who had sinned might be less
> happy without being told, like Adam and Eve hiding in the bushes.
> This much is programmed into me by lay bros; but after more than half a
> century of saying shan't, like the cook in Alice, I sought salvation in an
> internal declaration that I was writing an Elid poem.
> Not an entirely happy process, But when I left E to finish it for me in
> his own words I think he gave a sense that he's not entirely at peace with
> such concepts either.
> Anyway, thanks for writing and seemingly getting something out of it. I
> may have finished my lurk - is it the first in a decade? First in a long
> time.
> I have been writing WHAAT on my favourite wall. Probably back now
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> On 12 August 2015 at 11:54, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
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> > Well if he did not exist you have created him and a feast day too -how
> > did you celebrate? Cheers P who may or may not exist-I am watching out
> > for that loud music
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> > Sent: 12 August 2015 11:15
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: from Elidius on Ennor
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> > From *Elidius on Ennor*
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> > When loud music from Heaven ends mere time, each here might know how
> > well we have behaved in the mind of God. I hope, just then, to feel a
> > growing joy; yet, in my mortal gut, I have little but dread that I
> > shall start in and throughout my emotions, to die as I perceive the
> > first notes of the sound:
> > that condemnatory melody in Love
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> > [Elidius is one of the names of one who may have lived at some time
> > after the Roman period on Scilly, or, as it then seems to have been
> > called, Ennor. There is no evidence of him apart from the earlier name
> > of St Helen's island, where it is said he may have been buried, Insula
> > Sancti Elidii. His feast day is 8th August. Until now he has had no
> hagiographer.
> > ]
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