Padarn
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Padarn was an early 6th century British Christian abbot-bishop who founded Saint Padarn's Church in Ceredigion, Wales. He appears to be the same individual as the first bishop of Braga and Saint Pater
Eastern Orthodox-style icon of Saint Padarn.
1878 stained glass window of St. Paternus at the Cathedral of Vannes in Morbihan.
1878 sketch from Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, by Benzinger Brothers.
Maelgwn Gwynedd
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Maelgwn Gwynedd was King of Gwynedd during the early 6th century. Surviving records suggest he held a pre-eminent position among the Brythonic kings in Wales and their allies in the "Old North" along
Padarn
…to Ireland. Padarn's spiritual countenance was sufficient to calm the armies of kings of two provinces. After Padarn returned to Llanbadarn Fawr, Maelgwn Gwynedd tried to cheat him out of property belonging to the monastery. Two of Maelgwn's evil heralds were undone by the trial by ordeal of boiling water; scalded…
History of the Kings, Maelgwn Gwynedd
Britain.circa.540