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Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

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October 24 · Confessor

St. Cadfarch

St. Cadfarch

Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

Traditional feast

October 24
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Confessor

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Anciently in Montgomery on this day.] S. Cadfarch, brother of S. Thangwn and of S. Maehtlu, was the son of Caradoc Vreichvras, and grandson of Uyr Merini. He is said to have founded a church at Penegos, after having studied and received the monastic habit under S. Iltyt. He founded another church at Abererch.

Feast days

Feast: October 24

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Cadfarch's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.