Mybbard and Mancus were two Cornish

saint In Christianity, Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of sanctification in Christianity, holiness, imitation of God, likeness, or closeness to God in Christianity, God. However, the use of the ...

s 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 Chr ...

and is a local Cornish

said to be the son of a

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. Very little is known of his life though he is recorded as having been

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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 (, meaning ''church valley'') is a coastal civil parishes in England, 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 pa ...

, near

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. He was later re-invented as an Irish prince. William Worcester 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

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Cardinham Cardinham () (the spelling 'Cardynham' is almost obsolete) is a civil parishes in England, 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 hamlet ...

. 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,

, in the

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Manaccus

Manaccus (Manaccan or Mancus) was a 6th-century

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and

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of Wales. He was

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at Caer Gybi,

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and worked with Saint

Cybi Saint Cybi ( Welsh), or Cuby ( Cornish), was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint, and, briefly, king, who worked largely in Cornwall and North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval 'lives'. Life in Cornwall The ''vi ...

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, two miles from

. 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 Wyllow was a Cornish people, Cornish hermit saint and martyr whose existence was reported by William Worcester. He was said to have been born in Ireland but worked in Cornwall. He was reputedly beheaded by Melyn ys Kynrede ("Melyn's kinfolk") in ...

, who was beheaded at the same time.

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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

the parish of

Manaccan Manaccan (; ) is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village on the The Lizard, Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth. ...

in the

is named for him.Saint Manacca
at Saints SQPN.com. His feast day is 14 October.

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Meubred

Manaccus

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