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'''Veep''' (also known as ''Veepe'', among other spellings; died 6th century) is the Cornish saint for whom the village and parish of St Veep were named.[[File:St Veep Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 218004.jpg|thumb|St Veep Parish Church, originally dedicated to Saint Veep]]
In records Veep appears inconsistently as male or female; the "unusual degree of confusion about the saint's gender suggests that, by the later middle ages, the name was largely that of a place-name rather than a saint with an active cult."<ref>Orme, Nicholas (1996). [https://books.google.com/books?id=yON3x64MR34C&pg=PA122 ''English Church Dedications: with a Survey of Cornwall and Devon'', pg. 122]; <!-- publisher; ISSN/ISBN needed, if any -->retrieved 16 April 2012.</ref> as may be the reason for the change in dedication to the parish church of St Veep.
Veep may have been a daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog who is called '''Wennap''' (also Wennapa, Gwennap) or '''Weneu''' in Welsh records. Veep's feast day is 1 July.
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==External links== {{Portal|Cornwall}} *[http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1934 Catholic Online: St. Veep] *{{cite web|url=http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/saintsv.htm|title=Latin Saints|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717032135/http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/saintsv.htm|archivedate=17 July 2012}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Veep}} Category:Children of Brychan Category:Welsh Roman Catholic saints Category:Medieval Cornish saints
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