Editing Gwen Teirbron

{{Short description|Sixth-century Breton saint}}
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'''Gwen Teirbron''' (French: '''Blanche'''; Latin: '''Alba Trimammis''' or '''Candida'''; possibly English: '''Wite''') was a [[Breton people|Breton]] holy woman and wife of [[Fragan]] who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is [[Welsh language|Welsh]] for '(of the) three breasts'.

==Veneration==
Popular devotion interpreted Gwen's unusual physical and spiritual fecundity by God's gift to her of a third breast. Her iconography followed suit. Gwen is invoked for women's fertility. She is commemorated on 3 October in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] (although this has been transferred from [[Saint Candidus|Saint Candidus of Rome]]), and on 18 July ([[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe|NS]]) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.<ref name="Russian">Canberra Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad).  [http://www.stjohnthebaptist.org.au/saints/day.php?month=11&day=5&mode=xhtml Brief Lives of Saints], 2007.</ref>

==Children==
*[[Winwaloe]], son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron<ref name=Butler>Butler, Alban.  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=F4oEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275 The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints]'', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).</ref><ref name=Baring3>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John.  ''[https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 3, p. 38 (1911).</ref>
*[[Jacut]] (or James), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 />
*[[Wethenoc]] (or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 />
*[[Klervi|Creirwy]] (or Creirvy or Klervi), daughter of Prince Fragan and Teirbron<ref name=Butler />
*[[Saint Cadfan|Cadfan]], son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron<ref>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John.  ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=-G4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).</ref>

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[[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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[[Category:Female saints of medieval Brittany]]
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