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Padarn

6th‑century Welsh bishop and Christian saint active during the Age of the Saints in Wales

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Feast: 15 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

500

Died

510

Beatified

—

not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Padarn (Latin: Paternus, Padarnus; Welsh: Padarn; Breton: Padern; 4th century AD – c. 550 AD) was an early 6th century British Christian abbot-bishop who founded Saint Padarn's Church in Ceredigion, Wales. He appears to be the same individual as the first bishop of Braga and Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy. Padarn built a monastery in Vannes and is considered one of the seven founding saints of Brittany. His early vita is one of five insular and two Breton saints' lives that mention King Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Connected on this site

Eurfyl ach Padarn Saint Child
Paternus of Avranches Saint
“He appears to be the same individual as the first bishop of Braga and Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy.” — Wikipedia

Sources

Wikidata Q770633 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Padarn (CC BY-SA)

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