ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 25th of September WELCOME! SAINT CADOC, ABBOT Cadoc [Cadocus] [born around 497] [feast day January 24, September 21, September 25] was son to Gundleus , a prince of South Wales, by his wife Gladusa , daughter of Braghan, whose name was given to the province now called Brecknockshire. His parents were not less ennobled by their virtues than by their blood, and his father, who some years before his death renouncing the world, led an eremitical life near a country church, which he had built, was honoured in Wales amongst the saints. HE EMBRACED RELIGIOUS LIFE Cadoc, who was his eldest son, succeeded in the government, but not long after followed his father’s example; and embracing a religious life, put himself under the direction of St Tathai, an Irish monk, who had opened a famous school at Gwent, the ancient Venta Silurum of the Romans, afterwards a bishop’s see. St Cadoc made such progress ...