Cadoc

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The name Cadoc means “battle.” It comes from the Celtic language tradition.

A Welsh and Breton name meaning battle, Saint Cadoc was one of the most important early Welsh saints, founder of the great monastery at Llancarfan. The name connects to the Age of Saints in Celtic Christianity, when monks and warriors were often one and the same.

No source retrieved here gives a linguistic derivation for Cadoc, so the battle gloss given elsewhere is not confirmed by anything found in these sources; what is documented instead is the historical Saint Cadoc.

Wikipedia describes Saint Cadoc, also spelled Cadog, as a 5th-6th-century abbot of Llancarfan in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery renowned as a centre of learning where Illtud studied under his tutelage. He is credited with founding churches in Cornwall, Brittany, Dyfed and Scotland, was known as Cattwg Ddoeth ('the Wise') for a collection of his maxims, and is listed in the Roman Martyrology under 21 September; his Norman-era hagiography is also cited as one of the few sources mentioning Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

• Saint Cadoc (6th-century Welsh abbot and saint)
• Cadoc of Llancarfan (in Welsh hagiography)

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