Baring-Gould’s sources: Aberdeen Breviary. The Life of this saint, the mother of S. Kentigem in the Aberdeen Breviary, is an abridgment of the fragment of the life of S. Kentigern, written at the desire of Herbert, bishop of Glasgow (d. 1164), which is now preserved in the British Museum. ( It is worthless historically.] Thenew, or, as she is called in Welsh, Duynwen or Denyw, was a daughter of Llewddyn Lueddog of Dinas [July x8.

Eiddyn, that is, of Edinburgh; she was brought up in the Christian faith, but was unbaptized. According to the legend in the Breviary she vowed herself to chastity, a vow she certainly did not keep, andi which it is very probable she never made. Her father urged her to marry Ewen, son of Urien Rheged, king of Cumberland, and when she refused, he drove her ignominiously from his doors, to live with a swineherd. The swineherd, a secret Christian, preserved her honour, and treated her with profound respect; but forgetful of her vow, she gave promise of becoming the mother of a child by a beardless youth. Her father, highly incensed, ordered her to be stoned and cast in a chariot from the top of a hill. Miraculously saved, she was put in a coracle of platted twigs, tarred and covered with leather, and carried to the Isle of Man, whence she was sent adrift. Accompanied by a shoal of fishes, she was wafted to Culross, where she brought forth S. Kentigern, and where both she and her son were regenerated in the sacred font by S. Servan. She afterwards came to Glasgow, and there died and was buried. The popular name of her church at Glasgow was S. Theneukes Kirk, which has been gradually corrupted into S. Enoch's church. According to another story, S. Kentigern's father was Eugenius III., king of the Scots. Nothing really trustworthy is known of the early part of Thenew's life. She closed her days as a devout and self-denying woman, revered by all for her charities and piety. 51 Arnulf