Ludgvan

Saint Ludgvan is a Cornish saint of the undivided Church, an abbot. The parish of Ludgvan, near Penzance, bears his name; in the episcopal registers of the fourteenth century the church is dedicated to "Sanctus Ludvanus", which shows that the saint was a man.

Baring-⁠Gould takes him to be the same as Lithgean of Clonmore in Ireland, whose commemoration in the Martyrology of Tallaght falls on 16 January, while the Ludgvan feast is kept in the week of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Lithgean was the son of Laignech, of the line of Cucorb, king of Leinster, and of the clan Hy Cormaic in the west of the Wicklow mountains. He had six brothers, all saints, of whom the most important was Abban of Killabban, and his mother was a sister of Saint Ibar. He had a foundation at Clonmore, in the territory of the Hy Failghe. Baring-⁠Gould supposes that he moved to Cornwall at about the same time as other saints from Ossory and Wexford.