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Saint

Wethenoc

A Welsh saint, of the 6th century.

Feast
November 5old style November 18
Era
6th century
Place
Wales

Life

Saint Wethenoc (Gwethenoc, Guethenoc) is held to be a Breton saint of the fifth or sixth century, and the Welsh lists give him as a great-⁠grandson of Brychan, king of Brycheiniog. The Bodmin calendar commemorates him on 7 November. According to Bishop Stafford's register of 1415 a chapel was dedicated to him at Padstow in Cornwall. In Breton the name becomes Goueznou. Nothing certain survives about his life.

Commemorated the same day November 5