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Gildas

Gildas
Statue of Saint Gildas near the village of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (France).
Abbot
Bornc. 450-500
Kingdom of Strathclyde
Died570 (traditional)
Rhuys, Brittany
Venerated inEastern Orthodox Church; Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion
Major shrineGlastonbury Abbey (destroyed)
Rhuys Church
Feast29 January
AttributesMonk holding a Celtic bell or writing in a book
PatronageWelsh historians; bell founders

Gildas (English pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldəs/, Breton: Gweltaz; c. 450/500 – c. 570)[a][b] — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany where he founded a monastery known as Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys.

  1. ^ Higham. English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the fifth century. p. i and p. 141
  2. ^ Sullivan. De excidio of Gildas: its authenticity and date. p. 171
  3. ^ a b Kerlouégan. Gildas in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  4. ^ Dumville. The chronology of De Excidio Britanniae pp. 61–84


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