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Endelienta: a saint who according to tradition, had a cow that was killed by the lord of Trenteny. King Arthur was her godfather and either killed the wrongdoer himself or had him killed. Endelienta revived the dead man. She gave her name to the parish of St. Endellion.
'St Endellion! St Endellion! The name is like a ring of bells…' [John Betjemen First and Last Loves, 1952] , Sir John's daughter Candida named her third daughter Endellion in 1969.
Endellionite was the original name of the mineral bournonite renamed since the antimonial lead ore was first identified by Count Bournon near Endellion, Cornwall.