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Gildas
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Gildas (English pronunciation: , Breton: Gweltaz; ) – also known as , (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and (Gildas the Wise) – was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic , which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany, where he founded a monastery known as Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys.
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Gildas was a male historian, writer, missionary, and monk who served as an abbot. Born in the Kingdom of Strathclyde and Cheshire, he was a citizen of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. He was a student of Illtud and wrote in Latin. Gildas is recognized as a Catholic saint with a feast day on January 29. He died on January 29, 570, on the Rhuys Peninsula.
His notable works include *Gildae, cui cognomentum est sapientis*, *Opus novum*, *Opera omnia*, *The story of the loss of Britain*, and *Rervm britannicarvm, id est Angliæ, Scotiæ, vicinarvmqve insvlarvm ac regionvm*. He is described in sources such as *The Nuttall Encyclopædia* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 516?
- Died
- 570?
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Gildae, cui cognomentum est sapientis
- Opus novum
- Opera omnia
- The story of the loss of Britain
- Rervm britannicarvm, id est Angliæ, Scotiæ, vicinarvmqve insvlarvm ac regionvm
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Wales
Discography
- Nos Da2010
- Sgwennu Stori2013
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7,050
- Total plays
- 21,141
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gildas">Read more on Last.fm</a>
via Last.fm · Gildas
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 177
- Cited by
- 5,758
Research areas
Most cited works
- A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa2002 · 1,063 cit
- mv<scp>morph</scp>: an <scp>r</scp> package for fitting multivariate evolutionary models to morphometric data2015 · 536 cit
- Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers2023 · 259 cit
- Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa2007 · 172 cit
- The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls2004 · 166 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers
· 2022 · cited 1,405x
- The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2022 update
· 2022 · cited 1,008x
- The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update
· 2024 · cited 937x
- A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa
· 2002 · cited 802x
- Polyethylenimine but Not Cationic Lipids Promotes Transgene Delivery to the Nucleus in Mammalian Cells
· 1998 · cited 591x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Et tacens vetustos immanium tyrannorum annos, qui in aliis longe positis regionibus vulgati sunt, it ut Porphyrius rabidus orientalis adversus ecclesiam canis dementiae suae ac vanitatis stilo hoc etiam adnecteret: "Britannia", inquiens, "fertilis provincia tyrannorum".”
- “Interea glaciali figore rigenti insulae et velut longiore terrarum secessu soli visibili non proximae verus ille non de firmamento solum temporali sed de summa etiam caelorum arce tempora cuncta excedente universo orbi praefulgidum sui coruscum ostendens, tempore, ut scimus, summo Tiberii Caesaris, quo absque ullo impedimento delatoribus militum eiusdem, radios suos primum indulget, id est sua praecepta, Christus.”
- “Interea non cessant uncinata nudorum tela, quibus miserrimi cives de muris tracti solo allidebantur.”
- “Igitur rursum miserae mittentes epistolas reliquiae ad Agitium Romanae potestatis virum, hoc modo loquentes: "Agitio ter consuli gemitus Britannorum"; et post pauca querentes: "repellunt barbari ad mare, repellit mare ad barbaros; inter haec duo genera funerum aut iugulamur aut mergimur".”
- “Tum erumpens grex catulorum de cubili laeanae barbarae, tribus, ut lingua eius exprimitur, cyulis, nostra longis navibus.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Saint.honorific prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Gildas
- Saint.death_date
- 570 (traditional)
- Saint.feast_day
- 29 January
- Saint.venerated_in
- Eastern Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic ChurchAnglican Communion
- Saint.image
- Statue St-Gildas 07082.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Statue of Saint Gildas near the village of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (France).
- Saint.birth_place
- Kingdom of Strathclyde
- Saint.death_place
- Rhuys, Brittany
- Saint.titles
- Abbot
- Saint.attributes
- Monk holding a Celtic bell or writing in a book
- Saint.patronage
- Welsh historians; bell founders
- Saint.major_shrine
- Glastonbury Abbey (destroyed)Rhuys Church
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Hagiography
- Birthplace
- Life
- Biographies
- ''De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae''
- Veneration
- Further traditions
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Gildas (English pronunciation: , Breton: Gweltaz; ) – also known as , (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and (Gildas the Wise) – was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic , which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany, where he founded a monastery known as Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys.
==Hagiography==
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