Mawes

Saint Mawes (Maudez) is venerated in Cornwall and in Brittany. The calendar places him in the fifth or sixth century and calls him a bishop.

The sources say that he came from Ireland, from Wales or from Brittany. He first settled on the south coast of Cornwall, near Falmouth, where the village of St Mawes bears his name; his holy well is preserved there. He then crossed to Brittany, where, according to tradition, he landed at Pleubian. He visited many monasteries in the region of Tréguier, Dol and Léon and made his first hermitage at Lanmodez. Later he settled on the small deserted island of Gueldénez (now Île Maudez) in the Bréhat archipelago, with two disciples, Budoc and Tudy of Landévennec.

In Brittany he is one of the most revered saints and is invoked especially against fevers and snakes. In the ninth century his relics were taken to Bourges and to Saint-⁠Mandé near Paris to escape the Normans, and after their return they were divided among nine churches. More than sixty churches and chapels are dedicated to him. He is a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 18 November (New Calendar).