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St Marnarck also known as Manaccus was a bishop who became the
patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholic Church, Catholicism, Anglicanism, or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocacy, advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, ...
of
Lanreath Lanreath ( kw, Lannreydhow) is a civil parish and a village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated five miles (8 km) west-northwest of Looe. The name Lanreath (pronounced Lanreth) means 'church (Lann) of Rayd ...
. According to
William Worcester William Worcester, also called William of Worcester, William Worcestre or William Botoner (1415) was an English topographer, antiquary and chronicler. Life He was a son of another William of Worcester, a Bristol whittawer (worker in white leat ...
his body lay in the church of Lanreath. He is commemorated in one of the stained glass windows of St Neot parish church. His feast day is 3 August.David Hugh Farmer, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Saints''; 5th rev. ed. (
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, 2011)
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Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed., rev. by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 92.


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Mannacus Mybbard and Mancus were two Cornish saints of the 6th century. Meubred Mybbard (Mewbred or Mebbred),also known as Calrogus was a 6th century hermit and is a local Cornish saint said to be the son of a King of Ireland. Very little is known ...


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Year of birth unknown Medieval Cornish saints British monks 6th-century Christian saints 6th-century English people 6th-century Christian monks 6th-century English clergy {{cornwall-stub