him returning in fury, ran to saint Padarn and said, "The tyrant, who went out from here before, is returning. Reviling, stamping, he levels the ground with his feet". Padarn answers "Nay rather, may the earth swallow him." With the word straightway the earth opens the hollow of its depth, and swallows Arthur up to his chin. He immediately acknowledging his guilt begins to praise both God and Padarn, until, while he begs forgiveness, the earth delivered him up. From that place on bent knees he begged the saint for indulgence, whom the saint forgave. And he took Padarn as his continual patron, and so departed. Paternus of Avranches The British Padarn appears to be the same person as Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy. By tradition, it is said that he was born in Poitiers, became a monk at the in France, and retreated with his fellow monk, Saint Scubilion, to the in the diocese of Coutances before the Bishop of Coutances made him a priest in 512. Veneration Feast day: April 16 Three days were kept to honour Padern in Armorica; the Armoricans celebrate three solemnities of his, namely, that day of the Kalends of November, when he formed perpetual unity with the six chief saints of Letia, the day of his obit, and the day he received the order of the episcopate, the twelfth before the Kalends of the month of July. As well as the church at Llanbadarn Fawr, there is a second church dedicated to him, in Llanberis in Gwynedd. St Padarn’s Institute, located at St Michael’s Conference Centre, Llandaff, handles training for ministry in the Church in Wales. Notes Bibliography Vita Sancti Paterno: The Life of Saint Padarn, written in Cemis, Pembrokeshire, in the twelfth century. Found in the British Library Cotton Manuscript Vespasian A xiv. "Vita Sancti Paterni: The Life of Saint Padarn and the Original Miniu", Trivium 33 (2003)(Charles Thomas and David Howlett). External links Vita Sancti Paterni. From ancienttexts.org. Retrieved June 19, 2009. LLanbadarn Fawr and Padarn Redcoat 6th-century Welsh bishops Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 6th-century Breton bishops Medieval Breton saints Medieval Welsh saints 6th-century Frankish saints Romano-British saints