Cadoc

Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Medieval Latin: Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Cattwg; born c.497 or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage. Cadoc is credited with the establishment of many churches in Cornwall, Brittany, Dyfed and Scotland. He is known as Cattwg Ddoeth, "the Wise", and a large collection of his maxims and moral sayings were included in Volume III of the Myvyrian Archaiology. He is listed in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology under 21 September. His Norman-era "Life" is a hagiography of importance to the case for the historicity of Arthur as one of seven saints' lives that mention Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

Saint Cadoc
Saint Cadog as represented at Belz in Brittany
Abbot
Bornc. 497
traditionally Kingdom of Gwynllwg,, Wales
Died580, traditionally 21 September
Beneventum (see text)
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church;
Eastern Orthodox Church
Anglican Communion
Major shrineLlancarfan Abbey
(now destroyed)
Feast25 September,
formerly 24 January
AttributesBishop throwing a spear, crown at feet, sometimes accompanied by a stag, a pig or a mouse
PatronageGlamorgan; Llancarfan; famine victims; deafness; glandular disorders
ControversyPlace of death (see text)
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