Santez Morwenna
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Sainte MORWENNA, sainte éponyme de Morwenstow en Cornouailles (Vème siècle?).
Site Early British Kingdoms :
St. Morwenna
(Born c.AD 480)
(Welsh: Morwyn; Latin: Morvenna; English: Morwen)
According to the Cornish lists, Morwenna was one of the many holy daughters of King Brychan Brycheiniog. She was trained in Ireland before becoming one of the Welsh saints who crossed over to Cornwall. Morwenna made her home in a little hermitage at Hennacliff (the Raven's Crag), afterwards called Morwenstow. It stands near the top of a high cliff looking over the Atlantic, where the sea is almost constantly stormy, and from where, in certain atmospheric conditions, the coast of Wales can be seen. She built a church there, for the local people, with her own hands. She carried the stone, on her head, from beneath the cliff and where she once stopped for a rest, a spring gushed forth. It can still be seen to the west of the church.
When she was dying, her brother, St. Nectan, came to see her from Hartland and she bade him raise her up that she might look once more on her native shore. This occurred some time in the early 6th century, possibly on 24th July.
An interesting, but much defaced, polychrome wall-painting was found on the north wall of the chancel of Morwenstow church, thought to represent this lady. It shows a gaunt female clasping to her breast, with her left hand, a scroll or volume; the right arm is raised in blessing over a kneeling monk. She is sometimes identified with St. Merryn, whose feast day is 7th July, but Doble believes that this was originally a male saint. She should also not be confused with her sister, St. Marwenna.
Site en.wikipedia :
Morwenna
Saint Morwenna was an early 6th century saint from Morwenstow in Cornwall.
Morwenna is said to have been one of the many children of King Brychan of Brycheiniog. Like many of her siblings, she apparently travelled across the Bristol Channel to Cornwall where she settled at Morwenstow in the very north of the modern county. Images of her in stained glass may be seen in the parish church there and her holy well survives in a now inaccessible position down below the cliff.