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Saint Neot

  • d. in or before 878
  • Feast-day: 17 December, 31 July, 20 October
  • Cornwall, Glastonbury, St Neot ... Cornwall
  • saints of Cornwall, monks
  • (agents)
Saint associated with St Neot, Cornwall. According to his first Life, he was an English monk of Glastonbury abbey who retreated to a life of isolation and private prayer in what became the location for the foundation of his monastery in Cornwall; his relics are said to have been translated to St Neots, Huntingdonshire.


See also: Cornwall
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury abbey
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St Neot [Cornwall]St Neot ... Cornwall
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Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>. 
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Lapidge (Michael) [id. 19893. ‘Neot [St Neot] (d. in or before 878)’] direct link
Mattingly, Joanna, “Pre-Reformation saints’ cults in Cornwall – with particular reference to the St Neot windows”, in: Jane Cartwright (ed.), Celtic hagiography and saints’ cults, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003. 249–270.
Orme, Nicholas, The saints of Cornwall, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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