Identifier: benedictinesofca00shep (find matches)
Title: The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Shepherd, William Richard, 1860-
Subjects: Caldey Island (Abbey : Caldey Island, Wales) Benedictines Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: Isle of Caldey : The Abbey
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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d by the name of Pyrus, whereas at the timeof writing it was called Llan Illtud. The latter is the namefound, too, in the Breton Life of S. Gildas. S. Illtud is saidto have been the great-nephew of S. Germanus, who cameto Wales to combat the Pelagian heresy. On Caldey Islandhe numbered among his pupils S. Gildas, who founded aMonastery on the peninsula of Ruys in Brittany, where inlater years the Benedictines established their more genial rulein place of the severe Celtic discipline. The companions ofS. Gildas at Caldey were S. Paul Aurelian, Bishop of Leon;S. Samson, Bishop of D61; S. David (Dewi Sant), PatronSaint of Wales; S. Malo, and S. Brieuc. Gildas was bornabout 500 a.d. Albert le Grand, of Morlaix, the great seventeenth centuryeditor of The Lives of the Saints of Brittany, substitutes Daniel(or Deiniol) for Dewi (or David), among S. Illtuds pupils atCaldey. There can be no doubt that the tradition which as-sociates the Monastery and School of S. Illtud with Caldey Jk 42 &
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^Uhe Priory Church, Caldey (West View) To face page 42 XZbe 3sle of Caloeg is the original one. How to account for the better knowntradition connecting him and his distinguished pupils with thegreat Monastery of Llantwit Major is a difficult problem.Professor Williams, of Bala, suggests that the original LlanIlltud on Caldey Island, being unknown to the Welsh writersof the eleventh and twelfth centuries—because the memory ofS. Illtud had practically perished in Pembrokeshire—theirminds turned to a surviving Lanna Iltuti (Monastery ofIlltud) in Glamorganshire. A little over three hundred years ago a Life of Gildaswas first published. This had been written by a Monk ofGildass Monastery of Ruys, probably towards the close ofthe ninth century, and the original MS. was preserved atthe Benedictine Monastery of Fleury—that treasure-house ofecclesiastical documents. Closely related to it are the Bretonlives of S. Samson of D61, and S. Paul of Leon. All threedescribe the Island, the Mona

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