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    There is St. Ives, St. Neots, St. Austell, etc. Does Cornwall have more places named after saints than any other English county and are they all properly ordained Christian saints?

    Question #40627. Asked by gmackematix. (Nov 01 03 8:45 AM)


    TabbyTom

    		A quick look at the index to a road atlas of Great Britain suggests that Cornwall probably does have more places named after saints than other counties.

    Canonization hasn’t always been the centralized procedure that it is today. In the early centuries saints were often proclaimed locally. Many of the Cornish saints are mentioned in early hagiographies, but it’s virtually impossible to know whether they really existed. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints will tell you what is known and written about most of them.


    Nov 01 03, 9:02 AM

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