Samson


Unidentified Saint, late fifteenth century, Church of St Mary, Beaumaris
bishop of Dol

Feast Day: Anhysbys/unknown

28 July

Texts

Vita S. Samsonis

Life of Samson written at Dol. The Life has been variously dated to the end of the seventh century or at some stage during the eighth century.

Places


  Church
Dedication
  Well   Placename Landscape
feature
 Modern Text



Further reading

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1913), 130–70    View online

David Farmer The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 389

Elissa Henken Traditions of the Welsh Saints (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987), 115–20, 361–3

Nicholas Orme The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford: 2000), 228–30

K.M. Evans A Book of Welsh Saints (Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1967), 27–33

Julia M.H. Smith 'Samson [St Samson] (fl. 561/2)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)    View online