Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Bernachus (or Brynach) Saint

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Bern-Hart Saint
Next Entry
Bernal Augustin
Resource Toolbox

Bernachus (Or Brynach) Saint

of Wales, in the 5th century, Was said to have been the instructor of Brychan, king of Brecknock. His life is given in the Cotton MS. Vesp. A. 14 of the 12th century, and is printed in W. T. Rees's Lives of the Cambro- Briton Saints (1853). The details are fabulous: the saint comes from Brittany to South Wales, and his disciple, St. Clether, retires to Cornwall, to lead there the life of a devotee. The Life dates his death April 7; but other authorities give his festival as March 9 or July 7. R. Rees (Welsh Saints, p. 156) enumerates several churches named after Brynach in or near Pembroke or Brecknock. Another account makes Brynach contemporary with Maelgwn, and if so he must be placed in the first half of the 6th century. See Haddan and Stubbs, i, 158; Hardy, Cat. of Materials, i, 91.

Bibliography Information
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bernachus (or Brynach) Saint'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/bernachus-or-brynach-saint.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile