Wyllow
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Wyllow was a Cornish hermit saint and martyr whose existence was reported by William Worcester.
He was said to have been born in Ireland and was reputedly beheaded by Melyn ys Kynrede in the parish of Lanteglos, near Fowey. Supposedly, he then carried his head for half a mile to St Willow's Bridge, where a church was later built in his honour. Nicholas Roscarrock gives his feast day as 3 June. His dates of birth and death are unknown, though it is likely that he lived in the 6th century.
References
- Farmer, David Hugh. (1978). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- 6th-century Christian saints
- Christian martyrs of the Middle Ages
- 6th-century Christian martyrs
- 6th-century executions
- Irish people executed by decapitation
- Medieval Irish saints of Cornwall
- Cephalophores
- 6th-century Irish people
- Medieval Cornish saints
- Irish expatriates in England
- Irish people executed abroad
- Cornish people executed by decapitation
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