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 Paternus of Avranches in Normandy. Padarn built a monastery in Vannes and is considered one of the seven founding saints of Brittany. His early vita is one of five insular and two Breton saints' lives that mention King Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
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.
Vannes
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Vannes is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago.
City walls of Vannes
"Vannes and his wife"
In the old town centre
Old washing-places