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Wethenoc or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc was a 5th-century Breton saint.[1][2][3] [4]

Life

A son of Prince Fragan of Dumnonia and Saint Gwen the Three-Breasted, he grew up at Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc (in northwestern France) with his brothers, Winwaloe and Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on the Île Lavret near Paimpol.[5]

References

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).
  3. ^ Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (OUP Oxford, 2000pp225.)
  4. ^ Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Routledge, 2003) p86.
  5. ^ Bowen, E. G. Saints, Seaways and Settlements, p. 189 (University of Wales Press 1969). ISBN 0-7083-0650-0 (2nd ed. 1977).


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