Sites devoted to St. Gildas, a sixth-century monk regarded as the earliest British historian.
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Biographical entry for St. Gildas the Wise, also called "Badonicus," born to a British family in Scotland, educated in Wales, monk, priest, died in 570.
Profile of the saint. With links.
Biography by David Nash Ford of the 6th-century author of "De Excidio Britanniae," drawing on the dubious 11th-century life by a monk of Rhuys.
From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Profile of the saint. With links.
Biographical entry for St. Gildas the Wise, also called "Badonicus," born to a British family in Scotland, educated in Wales, monk, priest, died in 570.
Biography by David Nash Ford of the 6th-century author of "De Excidio Britanniae," drawing on the dubious 11th-century life by a monk of Rhuys.
From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
