Cornwall is liberally endowed with villages recording the euphonious names of early Celtic saints – St Endellion, St Enodoc (“Blessed be St Enodoc, Blessed be the wave, Blessed be the springy turf, we pray, pray to you,” as Betjeman hymned him (or possibly her) in “Trebetherick”), St Ia, St Madron, St Morwenna, St Piran, St Tudy and St Veep, to name but a very few.
The most prominent of them all was the 5th/6th-century St Petroc, who became one of the patron saints of Cornwall. In the 9th century his remains were translated to Bodmin Priory which became the major shrine of Cornwall; from 1124 until its dissolution in 1539 it was under Augustinian rule.
