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Cadoc

Welsh saint

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Also known as Cadog · Cattwg the Wise · Catwg · Catwg Ddoeth · Saint Cadoc

Born: 497
Died: 580
Birthplace: Glamorgan
Place of death: Benevento
Citizenship: Kingdom of Gwynedd
Occupation: monk
Positions held: bishop
, abbot
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Saint Cadoc, also spelled Cadog, 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.

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DDetholion allan o lyfrau Catwg Ddoeth a'r Bardd Glas o'r Gader1840 · edition; published in 1840

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