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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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August 19 · King, Martyr

St. Cledog

St. Cledog

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

August 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

King
Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on August 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Wilson, Capgrave, and Whitford on Nov. 3. Cressy says that he is venerated on Aug. 19. Whitford perhaps mistook him for Clydwyn, venerated on Nov. 1.] Cledog, or Clydog, was a grandson of the famous Brychan of Brecknock, a member, therefore, of a family of saints. The Cognacio Brychani and Llewelyn say that he was the son of S. Clydwyn, a grandson of Brychan. He appears to have had a brother, whom different MSS. call Dedyn or Neubedd, and a sister, S. Pedita. His beauty caused a young girl to fall passionately in love with him. A chief who was struck with her beauty was met with the cold reply that she would belong to none but Clydog. Filled with jealousy, he took an opportunity, whilst the prince was out hunting, to run his sword through his body. The place of the murder was Clodock in Herefordshire. When the body was found, it was placed on a cart drawn by oxen, but as the obstinate beasts refused to proceed, it was supposed that the martyr desired to lie where he had been slain, and a chapel was erected over his remains. In the Latin Martyrologies he is called S. Clintanc.

Feast days

Feast: August 19

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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.