Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Dictionary of Saintly Women, Vol. 2 of 2
St. Madron or maderne, perhaps madrun. A very ancient Cornish saint, whose well in Cornwall, though very cold, was, according to tradition, boiling hot to the hand of a traitor. Sick chil dren are taken to this well on the first Sunday in May and rags are tied to the surrounding bushes as offerings. C. F. Gordon Cumming. Blight, Cornish Crosses.
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