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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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Also known as St Padarn · St. Padarn · Saint Paternus · Saint Padarn · Paternus

Born: 5th century
Died: April 15, 510
Birthplace: Wales
Place of death: Vannes
Citizenship: Wales
Occupation: Catholic priest
, Catholic bishop(since 0465)
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1.Stated in Catholic-Hierarchy.orgRetrieved 2022-12-02
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Positions held: diocesan bishop(since 0465)
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Padarn 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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Feast day: April 15(since 1964)
May 21
Sex or gender: male
Canonization status: saint
Catholic saint
Given name: Patern
Floruit: 560
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1.Stated in Dictionary of Welsh Biography
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Child: Eurfyl ach Padarn
Religion or worldview: Catholic Church
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1.Stated in Catholic-Hierarchy.orgRetrieved 2020-10-12
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Consecrator: Saint Perpetuus
Time period: Early Middle Ages

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