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>Today (1. August) is the feast day of:
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>Kenneth (6th cent.) An untrustworthy vita reports that Kenneth founded the
>monastery of Llangenydd in Wales. Later he is supposed to have gone to
>Brittany. After his death Ploumelin became the center of his cult.
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Towill's The saints of Scotland (rev ed, 1983) has a long entry on Kenneth
mostly lifted from Adamnan, describing a man, son of an Irish bard, who
seems to have been in Wales in his twenties (after 544) and then with
Columba, perhaps interpreting for C. when he visited the Picts, and ending
his days in Ireland about 600. This man's feast day is 11th October. So
were there two saints called Kenneth working in Wales (and the rest of
Britain) in the 6th century?
Adamnan's Kenneth is the subject of the miracle of the forgotten crozier.
He left it on the beach on Iona (the way you do) when he set out for Islay.
Columba, finding it, took it to the oratory and remained long in prayer.
When Kenneth landed on Islay he found his crozier lying onthe turf waiting
for him, apparently just washed up.
AND
>Agape of Rome (d. c. 125?) There is evidence of the cult of Agape in Rome
>from the sixth century on. Next to nothing is known of her historically;
>she seems to have been a martyr and to have died in the early second
>century.
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Is this a real person?
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