In Cornwall almost every parish is named after some saintly apostle, and many of these saints are alleged to have travelled far and wide in the world founding towns and villages. It is almost a physical impossibility that this was literally true, and it becomes manifestly incredible on consideration of the miracles recorded in the lives of the travellers. As already suggested the greater probability is that the lives of the saints enshrine almost intact the traditions of pre-Christian divinities. Of the popular and most familiar St. Patrick, Borlase (W. C.), writes: "Of the reality of the existence of this Patrick, son of Calporn, we feel not the shadow of a doubt. But he was not _the only_ Patrick, and as time went on traditions of one other Patrick at least came to be commingled with his own. We have before us the names of ten other contemporary Patricks, all ecclesiastics, and spread over Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, and Italy. The name appears to be that of a grade or order in the Church rather than a proper name in the usual sense. Thus Palladius is called also Patrick in the 'Book of Armagh' and _the_ Patrick (whichever he may have been) is represented as styling Declan 'the Patrick of the Desii,' and Ailbhe 'the Patrick of Munster'. When Patrick sojourned in a cave in an island in the Tyrrhene Sea he found three other Patricks there." Precisely: and there is little doubt that our London Battersea or Patrixeye was originally an _ea_ or island where the patricks or padres of St. Peter's at Westminster once congregated. The arguments applied to St. Patrick apply equally to, say, St. Columba, or the Holy Dove, and similarly to St. Colman, a name also meaning _Dove_. In Ireland alone there are 200 dedications to St. Colman, and evidence will be brought forward that the archetype of all the St. Colmans and all the St. Columbas and all the Patricks was Peter the _Pater_, who was symbolised by _petra_, the stone or rock.