Cadoc

For other uses, see Cadoc (disambiguation).

Saint Cadoc
Saint Cadog as represented at Belz in Brittany
Abbot
Bornc. 497
traditionally Kingdom of Gwynllwg,[citation needed], Wales
Died580, traditionally 21 September
Beneventum (see text)
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church;
Eastern Orthodox Church[1]
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)

Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Medieval Latin: Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; born c. 497[2] 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,[3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ Hutchinson-Hall, John. Orthodox Saints of the British Isles. Vol I (St. Eadfrith Press, 2013) p. 75
  2. ^ Strayner, Joseph R., ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983) p. 6
  3. ^ Martyrologium Romanum, 2004, Vatican Press (Typis Vaticanis), page 529.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Tatlock was invoked but never defined (see the help page).