Gwen Teirbron
Saint Gwen Teirbron | |
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| Born | Brittany |
| Died | 5th or 6th century |
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Gwen Teirbron (French: Blanche; Latin: Alba Trimammis or Candida; possibly English: Wite) was a Breton holy woman and wife of Fragan who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is Welsh for '(of the) three breasts'.
Veneration
Popular devotion interpreted Gwen's unusual physical and spiritual fecundity by God's gift to her of a third breast. Her iconography followed suit. Gwen is invoked for women's fertility. She is commemorated on 3 October in the Catholic Church (although this has been transferred from Saint Candidus of Rome), and on 18 July (NS) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.[1]
Children
- Winwaloe, son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron[2][3]
- Jacut (or James), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2][3]
- Wethenoc (or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2][3]
- Creirwy (or Creirvy), daughter of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2]
- Cadfan, son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron[4]
References
- ^ Canberra Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad). Brief Lives of Saints, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).
- ^ a b c Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain, Volume 3, p. 38 (1911).
- ^ Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain, Volume 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).