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the Saxons, and the Picts were for some time in alliance. 

 The saints organised a combined attack. They conducted the 

 Britons and surrounded the camp, occupying the heights, and 

 they rolled down stones on the enemy or pelted them, so that they 

 succeeded in completely exterminating them. After this exploit, 

 Cadoc, Finian, and a comrade, Bitheus, proposed to make a 

 pilgrimage to Eome, but were prevented by an angel. Finian 

 then left Cadoc, taking with him Bitheus and Winnoc, and 

 returned to Ireland. 



The legend of S. Finian, of Clonard, in the Salamanca 

 Codex, speaks of Cadoc by his early name Oathmael, and is very 

 indefinite as to the situation of the monastery founded by him 

 and Finian together. It is possible that it may not have been 

 near S. David's, as implied. 



S. Cadoc having resolved on establishing a monastery in his 

 native territories, went in quest of a site, and found a pool on 

 which a white swan floated ; and, near it, an enormous old boar 

 coming out of his den, made three bounds, one after another, 

 and stopped each time to turn and stare at the stranger who had 

 disturbed him in his resting place. Cadoc marked, with three 

 branches, the three bounds of the wild boar, which afterwards 

 became the site of church, dormitories and refectory of his 

 Abbey of Llancarvan. The Abbey took its name, " The Church 

 of the Stags," from the legend that two deer from the 

 neighbouring forest came one day to replace two idle and 

 disobedient monks, who had refused to perform the necessary 

 labour for the construction of the monastery, saying : — " are we 

 oxen, that we should be yoked to carts, and compelled to draw 

 timber?" 



Llancarvan became a great workshop. Cadoc, as the eldest 

 son of his father, though he refused the Secular-Headship, 

 claimed and obtained as his right an enormous domain, over 

 which he ruled as a prince, feeding daily " a hundred clergy, a 

 hundred soldiers, a hundred workmen, a hundred poor men, and 

 a hundred widows. This was the number of his household, 

 besides servants in attendance, and esquires, and guests, whose 

 number was uncertain. Nor is it strange that he was a rich 

 man and supported many, for he was abbot and prince {ahbas 

 enim erat et princeps)y So says the author of his life. 



