Saint Veep
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For the Cornish village, see St Veep.
Saint Veep (also known as Veepe, Veeps, Veepu, Veepus, Veepy, Vepa, Vepe, Vepus, Weep, Wenep, Wepe, Wimp or Wymp; died 6th century) is the Cornish saint to whom the village of St Veep is dedicated. In records the saint appears inconsistently as male or female; the "unusual degree of confusion about the saint's gender suggests that, by the later middle ages, the name was largely that of a place-name rather than a saint with an active cult."[1] Veep may be the daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog who is called Wennap (also Wennapa, Gwennap) or Weneu in Welsh records.
His or her feast day is celebrated on July 1.
References
- ↑ Orme, Nicholas (1996). English Church Dedications: With a Survey of Cornwall and Devon, page 122. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
External links
- Catholic Online: St. Veep
- "Latin Saints". Archived from the original on 6 September 2012.
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