Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authorities: — A MS. Life written before 878, used by Lobineau and Le Grand. The Lections in the Breviaries of Leon; and the MS. Legendaries of Treguer, used by Albert Le Grand.] S. Maudez, Modez, or Mondez, was an Irishman. In Ireland he bears the name of Moditeus, but little or nothing is related of him. The reason is^ that he left his native 1 See Hon. E. Twisleton: “The Tongue not essential to Speech.” Nov. iS.l 61 Maudez.

Fland at an early age. He was born in Ulster, and his father’s name is said to have been Ardseus. This is probably the title Ard-righ, or chief king, taken as a name. The mother is called variously Getusa and Vernosa. He was the tenth son of his parents, and was given by them to God as a tithe of their offspring.

He came to Brittany, and placed himself in the monastery of Dol for a short time. He then went to Treguier, and visited S. Tugduval in the town of Cozgueaudet, or Lexobie, who gave him the abbey of Trecor, as a place of retreat under the holy abbot Ruelin. After some years he sought a solitary place on the shore of the sea near Plou Bihan, now called Ues-Modez, or the church ofS. Maudez, but was pursued by such crowds that he fled to an island near EnezGlaz, in the diocese of Treguier. It is said that the island abounded with serpents, and that S. Maudez drove them all into the sea. He died, and was buried in the island, but his relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] were removed to Bourges in 878. A portion of the right arm is preserved in the church of Lesneven, a portion of the left arm in the church of Saint Jean-du-Doigt; some bones in the cathedral of Treguier. The earth of the island of S. Maudez is diligently collected and mixed with water, and given by Breton mothers to their children, hoping that as S. Maudez expelled snakes from the island, so the earth blessed by him will act as a vermifuge. S. Maudez is S. Mawes in Cornwall.