Baring-Gould’s sources: Anglican Martyrologies. Authority A life by Andrew Whitman, abbot of Dorchester, written A. d. ioao, which was re-composed in better style by Goscelin, monk of Ramsey, in A.d. 1088. S. Yvo is mentioned also by Florence of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Matthew of Westminster, and John of Brompton. But it is at most needless to say that S. Yvo must be relegated to the domains of mythology.] In the seventh century an Oriental bishop, as was commonly supposed, from Persia, wandered through Europe, and finally settled near Huntingdon, where the natives contracted his barbarously sounding eastern name into Yvo. He spent some years at a place called Sleepey,1 with two companions, whom he had brougkt with him, and dying there was there buried. The body was dis1 ** Quod est, si interpreter, Dormitio," says Harpsfield; really Sleepey means “the smooth island.'* 3". Ithamar.

…covered in the year 1001, and was translated to Ramsey Abbey. Probaby the whole story was invented on the discovery of a body which was supposed to belong to a saint