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nother story says that the daughter of a ruling nobleman tried to seduce Brynach with a love potion made from wolfs-bane, but he fled from her advances. She then sent men to capture and kill him. He was wounded and cured at a sacred fountain called the Red Spring… His ‘Life’ says that he travelled to Rome to see the shrines of Peter and Paul. In Pembroke he was met by ‘propositioning’ women and by assassins engaged in a purge of Irish settlers… St Brynach was said to talk to angels on the prehistoric hill fort that tops nearby Carn Ingli (‘rock of

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