Lide

Saint Lide, Bishop (Elide or Elidius) is a saint associated with the early Christian settlement on St Helen's in the Isles of Scilly, south-⁠west of Cornwall. The island is first attested in writing in the twelfth century as "the island of St Elidius", when it was granted to Tavistock Abbey. It was a place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages, and Pope Pius II granted indulgences to those who visited "the chapel of St Elidius".

In 1478 William Worcester describes him as a bishop and a king's son and says that his feast was kept at Tavistock on 8 August. In Cornwall the parish church of St Issey was recorded in 1287 as dedicated to "Issey and Lid", and in 1448 a chapel of "St Eledius" is recorded at St Mellion. From the sixteenth century his identity became confused: in 1540 John Leland spoke of the saint as female, and in 1564 the island is recorded under the name St Helen, which in time replaced the memory of Lide. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.