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THE CHURCHES OF MOUNT AND VERWIG1 TODAY the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society is visiting two churches of great interest Mount and Verwig. The interest is by no means confined to the buildings themselves, old and venerable as that at Mount is. It reaches out to their site and dedication. Both churches are unmistakably related to the sea, Verwig on the plateau overlooking the Channel and Mount wonderfully placed just above its own little landing place on the coast. One can imagine how in the days of their foundation holy men travelling by sea would land in such a cove as that below Mount, drag their boat ashore, and then climb up the cliffs and build a little cell or oratory above, wherein prayer might be offered for a safe landing, and where thereafter the little church might act as a beacon-light for mariners. One cannot help feeling that the origins of both churches are closely related to the sea. Both, in common with so many churches in Wales, were originally established by the Celtic Saints, and in the case of Verwig the name of the founder, or, at least, the founder's patron, has remained associated with the church. It is dedicated to St. Pedrog. At the present time, Mount church is dedicated to the Holy Cross-Eglwys-y-Grog, but we can be fairly certain that this was not its original dedication, as dedications of this nature were introduced by the Norman clergy in the Middle Ages, and it probably replaced a dedication to some earlier Celtic Saint. If, on the other hand, we were to plot the position of all the ancient churches dedicated to St. Pedrog, we would find Llanbedrog in the Lleyn peninsula and St. Petrox's in S. Pembrokeshire. Across the Bristol Channel we find that St. Petroc gave his name to Padstow and that the parish church there is dedicated to him together with twenty-seven other parish churches in Devon and Cornwall. In Brittany he is honoured at several places-Lepérec and Lopaerec in Cornouaille, St. Petreuc in Cotes du Nord, together with St. Perech, St. Perreux, Tregon, and Trebedan, all in Northern Brittany. This distribution at once reveals that either St. Pedrog himself or some of his immediate followers must have travelled along the western sea-routes between Lleyn, south-west Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany. On these journeys little cells were established which, thereafter, bore his name and in the process of time became the churches of today. By studying church dedications in this way we can see that the western facing peninsulas of Europe in the Dark Ages were united under the cultural stimulus of the Celtic Church, and it was the sea that made lA paper read, in the unavoidable absence of the author, by Mr. J. E. R. Carson at the Society's meeting on 2 July 1955.