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Fragan was a 5th-century pre-Congregational saint and Prince of Scotland. He is celebrated on 3 October in the Calendar of the Breton Saints, and shares with Gwen a feast day on 5 July in the Roman Calendar. Fragan came from Great Britain, and was a Prince of Albany in Scotland. In the 5th century he left Scotland to evangelize Armorica. Family He was the husband of Gwenn and father of the twins Jacut and Guethenoc, of Guénolé, and of Creirwy, Winwaloe, son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron.Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).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). He is also a cousin of Riwall and stepfather to Cadfan, son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron. Biography He left Britain and moved to Ploufragan ( Côtes- ...
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Gwen Teirbron
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.Canberra Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad).Brief Lives of Saints 2007. Possible identification She is interpreted by Dyfed Lloyd Evans as having been a euhemerized mother goddess. Children *Winwaloe, son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and TeirbronButler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1 ...
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Winwaloe
Saint Winwaloe ( br, Gwenole; french: Guénolé; la, Winwallus or ; – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally " Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France. Life Winwaloe was the son of Fragan (or Fracan), a prince of Dumnonia, and his wife Gwen the Three-Breasted, who had fled to Brittany to avoid the plague.Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857). Winwaloe was born about 460, apparently at Plouguin, near Saint-Pabu, where his supposed place of birth, a feudal hillock, can still be seen. Winwaloe grew up in Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc with his brother Wethenoc, and his brother Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy, and still later by half-brother Cadfan. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on Lavret island in the Bréhat archipelago near Paimpol. As a young man Winwaloe con ...
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Guénolé
Saint Winwaloe ( br, Gwenole; french: Guénolé; la, Winwallus or ; – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally " Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France. Life Winwaloe was the son of Fragan (or Fracan), a prince of Dumnonia, and his wife Gwen the Three-Breasted, who had fled to Brittany to avoid the plague.Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857). Winwaloe was born about 460, apparently at Plouguin, near Saint-Pabu, where his supposed place of birth, a feudal hillock, can still be seen. Winwaloe grew up in Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc with his brother Wethenoc, and his brother Jacut. They were later joined by a sister, Creirwy, and still later by half-brother Cadfan. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on Lavret island in the Bréhat archipelago near Paimpol. As a young man Winwaloe c ...
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Jacut
Jacut was a 5th-century Cornish Saint who worked in Brittany. He is commemorated liturgically on 6 February. His father was Fragan, a prince of Dumnonia, and his mother Gwen Teirbron. The young family had fled to Brittany to avoid the plague raging in Cornwall at that time, and so grew up in Ploufragan near Saint-Brieuc with his brothers, Winwaloe and Wethenoc and a sister, Creirwy. He was educated by Budoc of Dol on ''the Île Lavret'' near Paimpol,Brian Daniel Starr, Ascent of the Saints: Whose Lineage Is Known (Brian Daniel Starr, 2009page 76 and as an adult he founded churches in Brittany. Today he is memorialised in the towns of Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, Saint-Jacut-du-Mené, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer and the Abbey of Saint-Jacut in that town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" sha ...
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Saint Wethenoc
Wethenoc or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc was a 5th-century Breton saint.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).Butler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857). 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.Bowen, E. G. ''Saints, Seaways and Settlements'', p. 189 (University of Wales The University of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Prifysgol Cymru'') is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff †... ...
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ...
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5th-century Scottish People
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5th-century Christian Saints
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Battle Of Lochrist
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Plouguin
Plouguin (; oc, Plougin) is a Communes of France, commune in the Finistère Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in north-western France. It lies northwest of Brest, France, Brest, about from the English Channel in the far west of the Leon peninsula. Population Inhabitants of Plouguin are called in French language, French ''Plouguinois''. Saint Winwaloe Plouguin is considered to have been (about 460) the birthplace of Saint Winwaloe, and his supposed place of birth, a feudal hillock, is still pointed out. International relations Plouguin is town twinning, twinned with the town of Newport, Pembrokeshire, Newport in Pembrokeshire, Wales. See also *Communes of the Finistère department References External links Official website *Mayors of Finistère Association
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Sang River
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