The parish church of St Colan was rebuilt in the time of Bishop Branscombe of Exeter, about 1250, and given by him to the Canons of Glasney College which he had founded at Peryn. It is the only dedication to St.Colan (Colanus) in England but there is a church at Langolen near Briec in Brittany and he is the patron of Llangollen in Clwyd, where he is buried. His father was a Welshman but his mother, Ethni, was of Irish extraction.
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Martin Nicholson - Shropshire, United Kingdom.
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