Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Saint Petroc

Index Saint Petroc

Saint Petroc or Petrock (Petrocus; Pedrog; Perreux; died) was a British prince and Christian saint. [1]

51 relations: Abbey of St Meen, Anglican Communion, Æthelstan, Bishop of Cornwall, Bodmin, Bretons, Brittany, Cadoc, Calendar of saints, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Catholic Church, Celtic Britons, Celtic Christianity, Constantine (Briton), Cornwall, Deer, Devon, Dictionary of National Biography, East Devon College, English Reformation, Exeter, Flag of Devon, Gilbert Hunter Doble, Glywys, Glywysing, Gray wolf, Gwynllyw, Henry II of England, Iconography, India, Kevin of Glendalough, Little Petherick, Llanbedrog, Llŷn Peninsula, Martyrology of Tallaght, Michael (archangel), Newton St Petrock, North Devon College, Oxford University Press, Padstow, Patron saint, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Petroc (college), Petrockstowe, Pilgrimage, Saint Piran, Shrine, St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, Thomas Fuller, Timberscombe, ..., Wales. Expand index (1 more) »

Abbey of St Meen

The Abbey of Saint Meen (Abbaye Saint-Jean de Gaël and later Abbaye de Saint-Méen) is an abbey in Saint-Méen-le-Grand in Brittany.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Abbey of St Meen · See more »

Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Anglican Communion · See more »

Æthelstan

Æthelstan or Athelstan (Old English: Æþelstan, or Æðelstān, meaning "noble stone"; 89427 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to 939.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Æthelstan · See more »

Bishop of Cornwall

The Bishop of Cornwall was an episcopal title which was used by Anglo Saxons between the 9th and 11th centuries.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Bishop of Cornwall · See more »

Bodmin

Bodmin (Bosvena) is a civil parish and historic town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Bodmin · See more »

Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned) are a Celtic ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Bretons · See more »

Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Brittany · See more »

Cadoc

Saint Cadoc or Cadog (Cadocus; also Cattwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Cadoc · See more »

Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Calendar of saints · See more »

Cardigan, Ceredigion

Cardigan (Aberteifi) is a town in the county of Ceredigionformerly Cardiganshirein Wales.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Cardigan, Ceredigion · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Catholic Church · See more »

Celtic Britons

The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages, at which point their culture and language diverged into the modern Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others).

New!!: Saint Petroc and Celtic Britons · See more »

Celtic Christianity

Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Celtic Christianity · See more »

Constantine (Briton)

Constantine (fl. 520–523) was a 6th-century king of Dumnonia in sub-Roman Britain, who was remembered in later British tradition as a legendary King of Britain.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Constantine (Briton) · See more »

Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Cornwall · See more »

Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Deer · See more »

Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Devon · See more »

Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Dictionary of National Biography · See more »

East Devon College

East Devon College (sometimes shortened to EDC) was a further education college situated in Tiverton, Devon, England.

New!!: Saint Petroc and East Devon College · See more »

English Reformation

The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

New!!: Saint Petroc and English Reformation · See more »

Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

New!!: Saint Petroc and Exeter · See more »

Flag of Devon

The Flag of Devon is the flag of the English county of Devon.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Flag of Devon · See more »

Gilbert Hunter Doble

Gilbert Hunter Doble (26 November 1880 – 15 April 1945) was an Anglican priest and Cornish historian and hagiographer.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Gilbert Hunter Doble · See more »

Glywys

Glywys is a legendary early 5th century Welsh king, an important character in early Welsh genealogies as the eponymous founder king of Glywysing, a south-east Welsh kingdom whose heartland lay between the Tawe and the Usk.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Glywys · See more »

Glywysing

Glywysing was, from the sub-Roman period to the Early Middle Ages, a petty kingdom in south-east Wales.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Glywysing · See more »

Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

New!!: Saint Petroc and Gray wolf · See more »

Gwynllyw

Saint Gwynllyw Milwr or Gwynllyw Farfog, known in English in a corrupted form as Woolos the Warrior or Woolos the Bearded (Gundleus, Gundleius or Gwenleue; 450 – 500 AD) was a Welsh king and religious figure.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Gwynllyw · See more »

Henry II of England

Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Henry II of England · See more »

Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Iconography · See more »

India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Saint Petroc and India · See more »

Kevin of Glendalough

Saint Kevin (modern Irish Caoimhín; Old Irish Cóemgen, Caemgen; latinized Coemgenus; 498 – 3 June 618) is an Irish saint, known as the founder and first abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Kevin of Glendalough · See more »

Little Petherick

Little Petherick (Nansfenten) is a village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Little Petherick · See more »

Llanbedrog

Llanbedrog is a village and community on the Llŷn peninsula of Gwynedd in Wales.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Llanbedrog · See more »

Llŷn Peninsula

The Llŷn Peninsula (Penrhyn Llŷn or italic) extends into the Irish Sea from north west Wales, south west of the Isle of Anglesey.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Llŷn Peninsula · See more »

Martyrology of Tallaght

The Martyrology of Tallaght, which is closely related to the Félire Oengusso or Martyrology of Óengus the Culdee, is an eighth- or ninth-century martyrology, a list of saints and their feast days assembled by Máel Ruain and/or Óengus the Culdee at Tallaght Monastery, near Dublin.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Martyrology of Tallaght · See more »

Michael (archangel)

Michael (translit; translit; Michahel;ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ, translit) is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Michael (archangel) · See more »

Newton St Petrock

Newton St Petrock is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in the Torridge District of Devon in England, occupying approximately.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Newton St Petrock · See more »

North Devon College

North Devon College was a further education college in Barnstaple, North Devon.

New!!: Saint Petroc and North Devon College · See more »

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Oxford University Press · See more »

Padstow

Padstow (Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Padstow · See more »

Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Patron saint · See more »

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Pembroke (Penfro) is an historic settlement and was the county town of Pembrokeshire in West Wales.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Pembroke, Pembrokeshire · See more »

Petroc (college)

Petroc is a further education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) college in Devon, England, with a catchment area covering more than.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Petroc (college) · See more »

Petrockstowe

Petrockstowe (or Petrockstow) is a small village and civil parish in the district of Torridge in Northern Devon, England.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Petrockstowe · See more »

Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Pilgrimage · See more »

Saint Piran

Saint Piran or Pyran (Peran, Piranus), died c. 480,. Oecumenical Patriarchate, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Saint Piran · See more »

Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Shrine · See more »

St Petroc's Church, Bodmin

St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, also known as Bodmin Parish Church, is an Anglican parish church in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

New!!: Saint Petroc and St Petroc's Church, Bodmin · See more »

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Thomas Fuller · See more »

Timberscombe

Timberscombe is a village and civil parish on the River Avill south-west of Dunster, and south of Minehead within the Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Timberscombe · See more »

Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

New!!: Saint Petroc and Wales · See more »

Redirects here:

Pedrog, Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, Petrock of Cornwall, Saint Pedrog, Saint Perreux, Saint Petrock of Cornwall, St Pedrog, St Petroc, St Petrock, St. Petroc, Vitae Petroci.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petroc

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »