288 CORNISH DEDICATIONS. 



and converted it into a Council of Bishops. At that convocation 

 two of the seven present were not "bishops at all, Gildas was a 

 ]3riest and abbot, and Huai've was a bard and exorcist.* 



The biographer goes on to relate that Paternus abandoned 

 his see of Vannes and departed to the country of the Franks, 

 where he died. " Letaviam (Lh-daw) deserens Francos adivit, 

 ibique in Domino obdormivit." 



This was an insertion by the Breton redactor, who knew of 

 a Paternus of Avranches, and that this Paternus died and was 

 buried at Avranches. He knew that the body of Paternus, first 

 bishop of Vannes, reposed at Yannes, and he sujiposed that the 

 body of the second Paternus, son of Petran and Gwen, must be 

 that l.ying at Avranches, and then he invents a story of a 

 translation of the relics of this second Paternus to Vannes. 

 Le Mene in his " Histoire du diocese de Vannes," says "en 

 resume, pour nous saint Patern I est fabuleux," i.e., a supposed 

 Paternus of the period of Conan Meriadoc ; "Saint Patern II 

 (mais qui en realite est bien Saint Patern I puisque I'autre n'a 

 pas existe) est le premier eveque de Yannes"; i.e., Paternus 

 appointed by the Council of Vannes, circ. 465 ; "Saint Patern III 

 est etranger au diocese," i.e., Padarn of Llanbadarn fawr. 



We come, finally, to the Welsh accounts of S. Padarn, apart 

 from the "Life." Padarn accompanied S. Cadfan to ^Vales, 

 along with his uncle Tydecho, and their migration is supposed 

 to have taken place at the beginning of the 6tli century.f We 

 can hardly put it later than 520. On his arrival, according to 

 Achau y Saint, he became a disciple of S. Illtyd, no doubt in 

 Inis Pyr or Caldej'. After that he established a community of 

 a hundred and twenty members in Cardiganshire at Llanbadarn 

 fawr. From the Latin hexameters of John ap Sulgen, who 

 wrote at the close of the 11th century, we learn that it was 

 traditionally believed that he remained at the head of Llanbadarn 

 fawr for twenty-one years, and this is confirmed by the Latin 



* De la Borderie, Saint Herve, Reniies, 1892, p. 269. The FzYrt was composed or 

 re-composed in the 13th century. In it seven saints are not specified. The 

 gathering was, " Conventus prsesulum et populorum, ut excommunicarent 

 prEefectum regis Conomerum " The Life of S. Padarn is the authority for making 

 the number seven. 



t Rees : Essay on the Welsh Saints, p. 213, 



