Cadoc is credited with the establishment of many churches in Cornwall, Brittany, Dyfed and Scotland.
19 Facts About Cadoc
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Cadoc is known as Cattwg Ddoeth, "the Wise", and a large collection of his maxims and moral sayings were included in Volume III of the Myvyrian Archaiology.
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Cadoc is listed in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology under 21 September.
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Cadoc's Norman-era "Life" is a hagiography of importance to the case for the historicity of Arthur as one of seven saints' lives that mention Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
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Cadoc wanted to propose to Princess Gwladys, daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, a neighboring chieftain, but Brychan turned away the envoys asking for Gwladys' hand.
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Cadoc picked up a basic knowledge of Latin and received a rudimentary education that prepared him for further studies in Ireland and Wales.
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One day while in the Cardiff district of Glamorgan, Cadoc was being chased by an armed swineherd from an enemy tribe.
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Disturbed by his presence, the boar made three fierce bounds in his direction, but Cadoc's life was spared when the boar miraculously disappeared.
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Cadoc took this as a heavenly sign, and marked the spot with three tree branches.
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Maches, the sister of Cadoc according to tradition, was killed by robbers who were stealing her finest ram.
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Cadoc founded his first monastery at Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan, and from there he went to Ireland to study for three years.
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Cadoc then travelled to Scotland where he founded a monastery at Cambuslang.
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Cadoc settled there on an island in the Etel river, now called L'Ile de Cado, where he built an oratory, founded a monastery and devoted himself to spreading the Gospel.
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Cadoc's name is the basis of some thirty Breton place-names.
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About 528, after his father's death, Cadoc is said to have built a stone monastery in Scotland probably at Kilmadock, which was named for the saint, north-west of Stirling, where the Annant Burn enters the River Teith about 2 miles upstream from Doune.
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Cadoc came into conflict with Arthur: the Vita depicts Arthur as great and bold, but willful.
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Lifris writes that Cadoc gave protection to a man who had killed three of Arthur's soldiers and Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as compensation.
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Cadoc delivered them, but when Arthur took possession of them they were transformed into bundles of ferns.
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Cadoc is mentioned as follows: 'In the monastery at Llancarfan in South Wales, Saint Cadoc the Abbot, under whose name many monasteries in Cornwall and Brittany were established.