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Gildas
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Vertreter des keltischen Christentums in Britannien; Autor; Heiliger
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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Strathclyde
- Place of birth
- Cheshire
- Place of death
- Rhuys Peninsula
- Occupation
- monk
- Position held
- abbot
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Student of
- Illtud
- Image
- Statue St-Gildas 07082.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saint Gildas
- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- date of death
- 0570-01-29
- date of birth
- 0500-01-01
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- feast day
- January 29
- writing language
- Latin
- P12749
- Gerhard Stöck
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Article · Deutsch
Gildas (* wohl ca. 500; † 570), auch Gildas der Weise, war ein herausragender Vertreter des keltischen Christentums im spätantik-nachrömischen Britannien, berühmt für seine Bildung und seinen literarischen Stil.
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