Gildas
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title:
Gildas
text:
Gildas — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw and Gildas Sapiens — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany,
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description:
British monk, writer and saint (c. 500 – c. 570)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas
date created:
2002-09-11T18:14:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T14:57:57Z
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