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The church of Barmby on the Marsh in East Yorkshire is dedicated to St Helen of the True Cross, the powerful Greek mother of the first Christian Roman emperor who - in her eighties - travelled the Holy Land in search of Christian relics. 
The remote church at Llanelieu in Powys, on the edge of the Black Mountains, is dedicated to the more obscure and mysterious St Ellyw, a Welsh virgin martyr and legendary princess.
And in Llandawke, Carmarthenshire, the church of St Oudoceus (a male bishop) is closely connected with medieval holy woman St Margaret Marloes, who founded a religious community of women there free from the confines of a convent.
