NEOT, Saint, hermit. — N. in Cornwall from a noble family, related by kinship to the English king ALFRED, he became a monk at Glastonbury. After being ordained a priest, he embraced the eremitic life in a solitary place in Huntingdonshire, where later arose the monastery (cell) of Eynesbury, which is said to have been founded by him upon his return from a journey to Rome, undertaken before 877, the approximate year of his death. Feast day: July 31.
BIBL.: A Life written by a contemporary has been lost; Acta SS. Iulii, VII, Paris 1868, pp. 330-40; G. H. Doble, S. N., Patron of St. Neot, Cornwall, and St. Neot, Huntingdonshire, Exeter n.d. [1929]; G. McN. Rushforth, The Windows of the church of St. Neot, Cornwall, ibid. 1937.