Gwen Teirbron(French:Blanche;Latin:Alba TrimammisorCandida;possibly English:Wite) was aBretonholy woman and wife ofFraganwho supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet isWelshfor '(of the) three breasts'.
Saint Gwen Teirbron | |
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| Born | Brittany |
| Died | 5th or 6th century |
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Veneration
editPopular 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 fromSaint Candidus of Rome), and on 18 July (NS) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.[1]
Children
edit- Winwaloe,son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron[2][3]
- Jacut(or James), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2][3]
- Wethenoc(or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2][3]
- Creirwy(or Creirvy or Klervi), daughter of Prince Fragan and Teirbron[2]
- Cadfan,son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron[4]
References
edit- ^Canberra Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad).Brief Lives of Saints,2007.
- ^abcdButler, Alban.The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints,volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).
- ^abcBaring-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).
- ^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 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).