Celtic and Old English Saints 9 May =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * St. Gofor of Llanover * St. Sanctan of Kill-da-Les * St. Tudy of Landevennec =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
St. Gofor of Llanover ----------------------------------------------------------- Date unknown. The Welsh patron of Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales (Benedictines). St. Sanctan, Bishop of Kill-da-Les ----------------------------------------------------------- 6th century. Saint Sanctan was bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan (now Dublin), ancient sees in Ireland. He is likely to have been born in Britain (Benedictines). St. Tudy of Landevennec, Abbot (Tudec, Tudinus, Tegwin, Thetgo) ----------------------------------------------------------- 5th or 6th century. Saint Tudy was a hermit who founded monasteries and evangelized in Brittany, where place-names and dedications memorialise his activity or that of his disciples in areas such as Ile-Tudy on the mouth of the Odet (Finistere), near Quimper. He appears to have been a disciple of Saint Mawes (f.d. November 18) and fellow-worker with Saint Corentinus (f.d. December 12). There is also a parish in Cornwall named after him, which may indicate his presence there, too. He may also have been a companion of Saint Brioc (f.d. May 1) (Benedictines, Farmer). Sources: ======== Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine Abbey, Ramsgate. (1947). The Book of Saints. NY: Macmillan. Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine Abbey, Ramsgate. (1966). The Book of Saints. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell. Farmer, D. H. (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford: Oxford University Press. For All the Saints: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm An Alphabetical Index of the Saints of the West http://www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk/saintsa.htm These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
