Cornwall is more Celtic than English in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorate not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor Celtic ones, unique to single churches. This book considers them all. The study tells us a very great deal about the invention of tradition at the parochial level and the universal desire of communities of whatever size, and of whatever historical period, to attach meaning to the salient features of their spiritual and physical environment