Cathen


Unidentified Saint, late fifteenth century, Church of St Mary, Beaumaris
Saint associated with the church at Llangathan in Carmarthenshire.

Feast Day: 17 May

None of the Welsh calendars give a date for the feast of Cathen, although Rice Rees gives his feast as 17 May, which is the feast of another sixth or seventh century bishop in Bute, listed in the Scottish calendars.

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Places

Only a single church is known to have been dedicated to Cathen, at Llangathen, and even here the dedication seems to have given way to Michael in the eighteenth century according to Browne Willis.

  Church
Dedication
  Well   Placename Landscape
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 Modern Text

1. Church of St Cathen, Llangathen , Carmarthenshire (Dedication) Details
2. Llangathen, Llangathen , Carmarthenshire (Placename) Details


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Further reading

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 91–2    View online

Images

There are no known images of Cathen, either ancient or modern.