Well, it's a discrepancy. For now.
Somebody's wrong. But I'm not sure who.
If you are smart or diligent enough to figure it out and tell me (and I trust you) I will go with what you tell me.
Today is supposed to be 4 Pluviôse CCXVIII, according to the site I link to at right, which gives today's date on the deliciously freaky Jacobin or French Republican calendar.
But but but...according to Wikipedia, today (Sunday) is actually the 5th of the month of Pluviose.
So I've been getting the date from the Jacobin site, then checking Wiki's list of sacred and celebrated substances (which replaced the Saints) and going with that.
Now I realize the two sites are out of synch/agreement!
So who is right?
I'll go with Wiki for now and say it is 5 Pluviôse CCXVIII.
I'm going with Wiki because they actually have a day by day correlation of the dates, giving the date and what day of the week it falls on.
If that is the case, today we get an animal to celebrate! It's Le Taureau, The Bull.
The fourth was to be for celebrating the Snowdrop.
So if it's really the fourth, celebrate the Snowdrop.
Or the Bull.
Are you as confused as I am now?
Dead French revolutionaries are probably spinning in their graves.
Somebody has so disrespected the Revolution.
Today's saints include...
January 24
St. Francis de Sales
St. Artemius
St. Babylas
St. Bertrand
St. Zama
Bl. William Ireland
St. Thyrsus & Projectus
St. Cadoc
St. Exuperantius
St. Guasacht
Bl. John Grove
St. Macedonius
St. Mardonius
Of course, my eye was drawn to the two linked saints with the odd names.
Thyrsus is the pine cone-topped staff that was carried by, I believe, Dionysus.
I had originally typoed and put Dionysius. That's an emperor not a god.
But never ask an emperor if he is a god. They're all barking mad.
Projectus is such a funny name for a saint.
So I looked this dynamic duo up and they're VERY obscure.
Even on the same site where I got this list all they say is...
St. Thyrsus & Projectus
Feastday: January 24
unknown
Martyrs of an unknown year and location. Their Acts are no longer extant.
I smell a cover up.
Somebody was probably gaying something up. Either Thyrsus. Or Projectus. Or both.
I'm putting my mental money on Projectus.
Thyrsus was probably "not that way." Except maybe when he drank?
Or maybe it was an Ace and Gary dealio. Take my hand, Friend of Friends..
St. Cadoc's history is more easily discernible (if Wikipedia counts as discernment).
Meet St. Cadoc (rap name: Cadog)...
He was Welsh. Pity the poor Welsh people. They have no vowels. They go about other countries begging for them.
Be sure to read his very funny genealogy at the end.
Why, for heaven's sake, would you want to claim descent from the crazy, godforsaken Julio-Claudian line.
They drank too much lead. They had bad genes. They were bipolar and then some. They ate their children. They were mass murderers with no mass appeal.
And did we notice a theme lately? That saints are always yoking things. Yoking the wrong animals to carts.
I guess that was one of the supernatural deviations most favored to figure out if someone were a saint.
Well, Santa Claus outdid you, St. Cadoc.
His deer flew.
Although, if you read the whole article, you'll see Cadoc flew as well.
And do you have thirty places in Brittany named for you?
Saint Cadoc or Cadog (born about 497)[1] , Abbot of Llancarfan, was one of the 6th century Welsh saints, whose vita twice mentions King Arthur. The Abbey of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, which he founded circa 518, became famous as a centre of learning. The prefix of his name means 'battle'.
Cadoc's story appears in a Vita Cadoci written shortly before 1086 by Lifris of Llancarfan;[2] "it was clearly written at Llancarfan with the purpose of honoring the house and confirming its endowments,"[3] Consequently, it is of limited historical merit, but some details are of interest. He was a son of Gwynllyw (Latinized Gundleus), King of Gwynllwg in South Wales, who was a brother of Saint Petroc, but a robber chieftain who led a band of three hundred. His mother, Gwladys (Gladys) was the daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog who had been abducted in a raid, during which King Arthur acted as peacemaker. Cadoc's father later stole the cow of the Irish monk, St. Tathyw, and, when the monk came courageously to demand its return, the King decided in return to surrender his son to his care. Cadoc was raised at Caerwent in Monmouthshire by Tathyw, who later became a hermit.
Cadoc's monastic houses
In adulthood, Cadoc refused to take charge of his father's army, preferring to fight for Christ instead. He proselytized over a large area of Wales and Brittany. He built himself a hermitage at Llancarfan (now in the south of Glamorgan): according to legend two stags came forward and Cadoc was able to yoke them to a cart to help with the building works. As a result, Cadoc is often pictured with a stag, and the current church at Llancarfan boasts a weathervane in the shape of one. Llancarfan soon grew into a monastery, one of the most important in Wales where many holy men were trained, until with the intruision of Norman power into South Wales, it was dissolved about 1086.[4]. There was another foundation credited to Cadoc at Llanspyddid, three km west of Brecon, and he is credited with the establishment of churches in Dyfed, Cornwall and Brittany. About 528, after his father's death, he is said to have built a stone monastery in Scotland below 'Mount Bannauc' (generally taken to be the hill southwest of Stirling down which the Bannockburn flows). It has been suggested that the monastery was where the town of St Ninians now stands, two kilometers south of Stirling. Cadoc went on pilgrimages to both Jerusalem and Rome and was distressed that the Synod of Llanddewi Brefi was held during one of these absences.
Correction on location of monastery in Scotland
The location of St. Cadoc's church in Scotland is north-west of Stirling at Kilmadock Parish, which was named for the saint.[5] It is about 2 miles up the River Teith from Doune, where the Annant burn enters the river. Near the ruins of the old Kilmadock church and the graveyard is Hermit's Croft, thought to be the location where he lived for 7 years. There were 7 local churches that were built in the saint's honor, which came under the authority of the Inchmahome Priory.
The local Scottish followers were known as Gille Dog, or servants of St. Cadog. These appear as surnames, first as Dog, and later as Doig, Dock, and Doak. Sir Thomas Dog was Prior of Inchamhome from 1469 to 1477.
Cadoc and the kings
The parish church of St Cadoc
St Catwg window in CaerphillyHe came into conflicts with king Arthur, who is mentioned twice in the vita, as great and bold but willful. The reference is of importance to those concerned with the historicity of Arthur as one of five insular and two Breton saints with claims to mention Arthur independently of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. [6] The vita mentions a certain miraculous spot that had a healing effect until the time of king Hiuguel,[7] after due to a malevolent influence the spot has been lost; Hiuguel is the Hywel vab weyn who died in his old age, ca 1041-44. The date of Lifris' Vita Cadoci, shortly before 1086, makes it a testimony of Arthur that is independent of Geoffrey of Monmouth's myth-making.
The kings Maelgwn of Gwynedd and Rhain Dremrudd of Brycheiniog also feature in his vita. In later Arthurian developments, Cadoc, with Illtud, is one of the three knights said[citation needed] to have become keepers of the Holy Grail.
Cadoc and Brittany
At one time, he apparently lived as a hermit with Saint Gildas on an island in the Bay of Morbihan, off Vannes in Brittany. There are chapels dedicated to him at Belz and Locoal-Mendon in Morbihan and at Gouesnac'h in Finistère, where he is called upon to cure the deaf. His name is also the basis of some thirty Breton place-names.
Cadoc and Caerleon
At Caerleon, a Roman centre of Monmouthshire, the much-rebuilt church dedicated to St Cadoc, though of Norman origin, stands on the foundations of the Roman legion headquarters, a sign of the Christianization of Roman sites after the legions departed Britannia. It may memorialize an early cell of Cadoc's, although an old tradition suggests that, in this case, Cadoc is a corruption of Cadfrod.
Cadoc and Beneventum
In an episode towards the end of his vita, Cadoc is carried off in a cloud from Britannia (de terra Britannie) to Beneventum, where a certain prior is warned of the coming of a "western Briton" who is to be renamed Sophias; as Sophias Cadoc becomes abbot, bishop and martyr. A magna basilica was erected over his shrine, which visiting Britons were not allowed to enter. And a fictitious "Pope Alexander" is made to figure in the narrative. Tatlock points out that Alexander was an obscure second-century papal name until the accession of Pope Alexander II (1061) and that Beneventum in southern Italy became more prominent after it was traded to the papacy in 1051 and popes began to visit it regularly and councils were held there in 1087 and 1091; but Beneventum has been associated with the Roman town of Bannaventa (five kilometres east of Daventry in Northamptonshire)[8] on the edge of Saxon territory in Britain. This latter hypothesis proposes that it was overrun by Saxons at this time, thus explaining both the killing of Cadoc and the prohibition on Britons entering the town to recover his body.
The genealogy of Cadoc
The genealogy of the blessed Cadoc arises from the most noble emperors of Rome, from the time of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Augustus Cesar, in whose time Christ was born, begat Octavianus, Octavianus begat Tiberius, Tiberius begat Caius, Caius begat Claudius, Claudius begat Vespasian, Vespasian begat Titus, Titus begat Domitian, Domitian begat Nero, under whom the apostles Peter and Paul suffered, Nero begat Trajan, Trajan begat Adrian, Adrian begat Antonius, Antonius begat Commodus, Commodus begat Meobus, Meobus begat Severus, Severus begat Antonius, Antonius begat Aucanus, Aucanus begat Aurelian, Aurelian begat Alexander, Alexander begat Maximus, Maximus begat Gordian, Gordian begat Philip, Philip begat Decius, Decius begat Gallus, Callus begat Valerian, Valerian begat Cleopatra, Cleopatra begat Aurelian, Aurelian begat Titus, Titus begat Probus, Probus begat Carosius, Carosius begat Dioclesian, who perscuted the Christians throughout the whole world; for in his time the blessed martyrs Alban, that is Julian, Aaron, and many others suffered. Dioclesian begat Galerius, Galerius begat Constantine the Great the son of Helen, Constantine begat Con- stantius, Constantius begat Maximianus, with whom the British soldiers went from Britain, and he slew Gratian the Roman emperor, and held the government of all Europe; and he did not dismiss the soldiers, which he brought with him from Britain to return to their country on account of their bravery, but gave them many provinces and countries, that is from the pool which is on the top of the mountain of Jupiter to the city named Cantguic, and until the western mound that is Cruc Ochideint; and from those soldiers arose a nation which is called Lettau.1 Maximianus therefore begat Owain, Owain begat Nor, Nor begat Solor, Solor begat Glywys, Glywys begat Gwynlliw, Gwynlliw begat the most blessed Cadoc of whom we are speaking.[9]
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