pre-Congregational saint
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and
Prince
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of
Scotland
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.
He is celebrated on 3 October in the Calendar of the Breton Saints, and shares with Gwen a
feast day
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on 5 July in the Roman Calendar.
Fragan came from Great Britain, and was a Prince of Albany in Scotland. In the 5th century he left Scotland to evangelize
Armorica
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Name
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.
Family
He was the
husband
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of
Gwenn Gwenn is a surname and unisex (though more often feminine) given name of Breton origin, a variant of the name Gwen, which means 'white, holy'. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), English actor
Given name
* ...
and father of the
twin
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s
Jacut Jacut was a 5th-century Cornish Saint who worked in Brittany. He is commemorated liturgically on 6 February.
His father was Fragan, a prince of Dumnonia, and his mother Gwen Teirbron. The young family had fled to Brittany to avoid the plague rag ...
Creirwy
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,
Winwaloe
Winwaloe (; ; or ; – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally " Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France.
Life
Winwaloe was th ...
Britain
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and moved to
Ploufragan
Ploufragan (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Ploufragan lies adjacent to the southwest of Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Brieuc (, Breton language, Breton: ''Sant-Brieg'' , Gallo language, Gallo: ' ...
(
Côtes-d'Armor
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Sang River
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It rises from the hills behind a small village named Sinugra near Anjar. It flows by villages like Nagalpur, Kumbharia, Anjar, Galpadar and K ...
valley. He was the founder of the castle of Lesguen, in the present commune of
Plouguin
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It lies northwest of Brest, about from the English Channel in the far west of the Leon peninsula.
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Inhabitants of Plouguin are called in ...
.
Fragan is also known for having amassed a small army in haste to repel a larger force of pagan pirates at the
battle of Lochrist
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.Albert Le Grand, La vie, gestes, mort et miracles des Saints de la Bretagne Armorique, ensemble un catalogue des évêques des neuf eveschés d'icelle, 1659,