Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales author probably knew very little at such a late date of the true facts of Cadog's life, but he is likely to have inherited much local tradition. Cadog is said to have travelled into Cornwall and Brittany and visited Ireland and Scotland and finally to have been carried away in a miraculous manner to Beneventum in southern Italy. His 'Vita' makes it clear that his great achievement was the establishment
TATHAN (fl. 5th century), saint Tathalius ruled, not in Ireland, but among the Goidels of North Wales. The 'Life' is mostly legendary, but it is clear that Tathan settled in Gwent, and that Caradog, king of all Gwent, made him a grant of land at Caerwent, where he established a school and monastery. S. Cadog, son of king Gwynllyw, was his disciple. His festival is on 26 December (in the English Martyrology, 23 November). He is patron of
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales of Inisfallen. He was one of the influential monks of the 6th century, and his cognomen, 'the Waterman' (W. 'Dyfrwr,' Lat. 'Aquaticus'), suggests that he was a member of that monastic sect who rejoiced in the rigour of their ascetic life and who were called 'aquatici,' 'the watermen.' He is mentioned together with Cadog and Gildas in the 'Catalogue of the Saints of Ireland' (c. 730); and in ' The
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters lay in a quite different direction. At the end of a life of Gildas in a 12th century Cambridge manuscript, Caratoc of Nancarban (the correct form, which became Llan carfan under foreign influence) declares himself in Latin verse to be the author and the same couplet occurs in a recently discovered life of Cadog. The latter, concerned with the patron saint of Llancarfan, would come naturally from a

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