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Blisland is another picture postcard village that
lies on the western edge of Bodmin Moor. The village green is surrounded by
Victorian and Georgian houses as well as delightful cottages, the village
shop, the public house "The Blisland Inn", and another 15th
Century church,. this time that of St Protus and St Hyacinth. St Protus and St Hyacinth
where brothers who were murdered for there beliefs in the 3rd century. St Protus was beheaded
and St Hyacinth was burned alive. The brothers origins are in Italy,
where St Proteus' head can be found in the church of the four crowned
saints and his body lies in the church of St John of the Florentines, a
church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist. The tomb of St Hyacinth
can be found in a crypt in the catacombs of St. Hermes. The crypt was a
small square niche in which lay the ashes and pieces of burned bone
wrapped in the remains of costly stuffs. The niche was closed by a marble
slab similar to that used to close a loculus, and bears the
original inscription that confirmed the date in the old Martyrology:
D P III IDUS SEPTEBR (Buried on 11 September Hyacinthus Martyr). In 1752 the annual commemoration was moved to 22nd of September Pope Damasus wrote an epitaph in honour of the two martyrs, part of which still exists today. In the epitaph Damasus calls Protus and Hyacinth brothers. When Leo IV (847-55) translated the bones of a large number of Roman martyrs to the churches of Rome, the relics of these two saints were to be translated but, because of the devastation of the burial chamber, only the grave of St. Protus was found. His bones were transferred to San Salvatore on the Palatine. In 1849 the remains of St. Hyacinth were placed in the chapel of the Propaganda. Later the tombs of the two saints and a stairway that was built at the end of the fourth century were discovered and restored. The brothers were first mentioned in English literature in the patent rolls of Henry VI in 1436. How the saintly brothers came to be associated with Blisland is still a mystery. The parish church of Blisland was dedicated to St Protus (or Protatius,
Prothus, St Proto) but is known locally as St Pratt and St Hyacinth. The church is of
Norman and medieval origin and contains an excellent example of a Rood Screen. The parish
itself is named
after an unknown individual and the word 'tun' which means land. Blisland is mentioned
in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Glustone. It is a very undulating and hilly area with many isolated farms and small
unfenced moorland roads. It is primarily farmland, and cattle, sheep and
ponies are
grazed on the moorland. In 1934, the parish of Temple was incorporated
into Blisland parish. |
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