Dear Sherry,
In a footnote in his _Lives of the Welsh Saints_, (p. 60) G. H. Doble
notes that there is a chapel of St-Elouan in Brittany. He references Lot,
_Les Noms des Saints Bretons_ for this piece of information. Helias,
Dictionnaire des saints bretons_, gives Elouan's feastdays as 28 Aug. and
10 March. Doble notes also that a St Elwin is honoured in West Cornwall;
and that a 'S. Ailwini, Conf.' appears in the kalendar in Vesp. A. xiv on 20
November. Perhaps one of these Elwins is the one you are looking for.
Best regards,
Martin Howley
Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514
QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153
St John's, NFLD, Canada A1B 3Y1 E-mail:[log in to unmask]
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Sherry Reames wrote:
> The mysterious second name of St. Bavo (in the feast listings for 1
> October) reminded me of an unsolved mystery I've encountered in the
> calendar of a Sarum breviary manuscript that ended up in Scotland. Other
> than Kentigern, who got added later, the only non-Sarum saint in this
> calendar is one Alwinus, on November 20. I've tried looking for this
> saint under every form that seems even remotely possible (Athelwin,
> Ethelwin, Aldwin, Olwin, etc., etc.) in all the standard reference books,
> and have run out of ideas. Does anybody on the list know of a saint whose
> name and feastday [or alternate feastday, in some English or Scottish
> locale] might fit this calendar entry?
>
> Sherry Reames (English Dept, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
>
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