Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in Brittany. Saussaye gives him under the name of Maine, on the 15th, and under the name of Maven on the 21st. But in the Dol and S. Malo {Calendars on the 21st. Men&rdus in his Benedictine Martyrology on the 15th. Authority: — A life by Albert Le Grand, founded on popular traditions, and the Lections in the Breviaries.] S. Maen, a Welshman, is said to have been a nephew of S. Samson of Dol, who was also a bishop of York. S. Maen, or Meven.

June ax.} Samson, son of Caw, was a saint of the college of S Illtud, and had a church at Caerfrog, or York, in the beginning of the 6th cent., and he has been magnified by legend writers into an archbishop of York. He is said on the invasion of the Saxons to have fled to Brittany, and become bishop of Dol. But this is a mistake, arisen from the confounding together of two separate persons of the same name.

Samson of Dol belongs to the next generation. He was son of Amwn Dhu ab Emvr Llydaw by Anna, daughter of Meury ab Teudrig. He was a member of the college of S. Illtud, and on the death of Peirio, he succeeded to the position of abbot of the community. Subsequently he migrated to Brittany, where he was appointed bishop of Dol. He was accompanied by his nephew Maen. Samson was present in a council held at Paris in 557, and subscribed its decrees. Maen became abbot of a monastery in Brittany, near Dol, and received into it the Armorican prince, Juthael, who had been deprived of his dominions by an usurper named Commor, and sent a prisoner to Childebert, king of the Franks [the Germanic people who ruled Gaul and gave France its name], but at the intercession of S. Samson, he was released and restored to his possessions. The Welsh accounts say that S. Samson returned before he died to Wales, and died there; and in the churchyard of Lantwit Major, two large crosses still remain, one of which bears an inscription stating that it was erected by Samson for his soul, and for the souls of Juthael the king, and Arthmael.