Cadoc
Saint Cadoc | |
|---|---|
| Abbot | |
| Born | c. 497 traditionally Kingdom of Gwynllwg,, Wales |
| Died | 580, traditionally 21 September Beneventum (see text) |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church Anglicanism |
| Major shrine | Llancarfan Abbey (now destroyed) |
| Feast | 25 September, formerly 24 January |
| Attributes | Bishop throwing a spear, crown at feet, sometimes accompanied by a stag, a pig or a mouse |
| Patronage | Glamorgan; Llancarfan; famine victims; deafness; glandular disorders |
| Controversy | Place of death (see text) |
Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Medieval Latin: Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; 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 Celtic 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.