Also written Briocus, Brioc, or Bru. Confessor and bishop (410 -502 ), born probably Cardiganshire; died Saint-Brieuc-des-Vaux, France . Of pagan parents, he was converted in 430 . He preached in Cardigan and on the coast of Alba, and founded a monastery at Landebaeron in Armorica, and another at Saint Brieuc in upper Brittany, of which he became first bishop . Many churches in England and Scotland are dedicated to him. Patron of pursemakers. Emblems : a purse , alms-box . Relics in the Abbey of Saint Sergius, Angers, and in the Cathedral of Saint Brieuc. Feast , 1 May . <\/p>\n
as is not uncommon with the early Celtic saints who led a wandering life, is claimed by several of the Celtic tribes. According to Acta Sanctorum, May 1, Briocus was born of idolatrous parents in Corriticia, and educated from the age of ten years by Germanus, bishop of Paris. He settled in Brittany, where he died at the age of ninety. His monastery at St. Brieuc was made the centre of a bishopric about 844, but his body was soon after translated to the monastery of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, near Angers, the monks flying before the Dalies. His bell was still existing in 1210. The parish of St. Breock, in Cornwall, is on the river Camel, and the parish fair is held May 1, the day of the saint’s translation, but his feast day at St. Poi de Leon was April 28 (or 29). He is known in Scotland as Brayoch, Broc, Brock, and Bryak, and had dedications at Montrose, Rothesay, and Dunrod, in Kirkcudbrightshire, but does not appear in Scotch calendars (see Forbes; Kal. Scott. Saints, page 291; Orig. Par. Scot. 2:223).<\/p>\n
Briocus, Saint Also written Briocus, Brioc, or Bru. Confessor and bishop (410 -502 ), born probably Cardiganshire; died Saint-Brieuc-des-Vaux, France . Of pagan parents, he was converted in 430 . He preached in Cardigan and on the coast of Alba, and founded a monastery at Landebaeron in Armorica, and another at Saint Brieuc in upper … Continue reading “Briocus, Saint”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}