Baring-Gould’s sources: Wilson’s Anglican Martyrology. Authority: — Giraldus Canibrensis, in his Itinerary; and the Cognitio Bryohani.] Brychan, son of Awlach Mac-Gormuc, an Irish prince, was brought, at an early age, to Britain by his parents, who took up their residence at Benne (Gaer, upon the banks of on a sudden falling on the ground in a fit, then jumping up as in a frenzy, and representing with their hands and feet, before the people, whatever work they have unlawfully done on feast days; you may see one man put his hand to the plough, and another, as it were, goad on the oxen, mitigating their sense of labour by the usual rude song; one man imitating the profession of a shoemaker; another, that of a tanner. You may see a girl with a distaff, drawing out the thread, and winding it again on the spindle; another walking, and arranging the threads for the web; another, as it were, throwing the shuttle, and seeming to weave. On being brought into the church, and led up to the altar with their oblations, you will be astonished to see them suddenly awakened, and coming to themselves. Thus, by the divine mercy, which rejoices in the conversion — not in the death — of sinners, many persons, from the conviction of their senses, are at these feast days corrected and amended.”