Wyllow

{{Short description|Cornish hermit saint and martyr}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

File:St Wyllow (St Olaf's church, Poughill) 1914.png, Poughill (1914)]]Wyllow was a Cornish hermit saint and martyrFarmer, David Hugh. (1978). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press. whose existence was reported by William Worcester.

He was said to have been born in Ireland but worked in Cornwall.

He was reputedly beheaded by Melyn ys Kynrede ("Melyn's kinfolk"{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Thomas |title=The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall |date=1916 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Company |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiU1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA126 |accessdate=Oct 26, 2020}}) 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.lanteglos.org.uk/places-to-see/churches/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719172304/http://www.lanteglos.org.uk/places-to-see/churches/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=19 July 2014 |title=Lanteglos |accessdate=25 September 2016}} Nicholas Roscarrock gives his feast day as 3 June.

He is still commemorated in Cornwall, with the 15th century St. Wyllow's Church.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090608090448/http://www.oliverscornwall.co.uk/holy.html Churches, Holy Wells & Saints]. built by Thomas Mohun at Lanteglos-by-Fowey.David Ross, [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/cornwall/churches/lanteglos-by-fowey.htm Lanteglos-by-Fowey, St Wyllow Church].Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000 [https://books.google.com/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&dq=Wethenoc&pg=PA255 pp225].)

He is also known as Vylloc and his dates of birth and death are unknown, though it is likely that he lived in the 6th century. St. Willow is regarded as the patron of Lanteglos.[https://www.archive.org/stream/celticchristiani00taylrich/celticchristiani00taylrich_djvu.txt The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies; by Thomas Taylor] (Longmans, Green and Co.. 1916)