Stained glass window at Hentland depicting St Dubricius in memory of William Poole, vicar from 1854 to 1901.
Stained
glass window at Hentland depicting St Dubricius in memory of William Poole, vicar from
1854 to 1901.
Saint Dubrice
Évêque et abbé (6ème
s.)
ou Dybrig, premier évêque de Llandaff, au pays de Galles.
Il sacra Saint Samson évêque.
Dans l’île de Bardsey au sud du pays de Galles, au VIe siècle, saint Dubrice,
évêque et abbé, considéré comme un des fondateurs du monachisme au pays de
Galles.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10579/Saint-Dubrice.html
Saint Dubrice
Saint Dubrice, est aussi
nommé Dubritius, Dubric, Dyfig, Dyfrig, Devereux.
Il était né à Moccas
(Moch Rhos = Lande du Porc), près de Hereford, et mourut vers 545. Certaines
généalogies anciennes montrent Dubrice comme arrière-arrière-petit-fils de
Macsen Wledig et d'Elen of the Ways.
Saint Dubrice était un
chef religieux important, moine, dans le sud du Pays de Galles et l'ouest du
Herefordshire. Sa première fondation a été Ariconium (Archenfield, Hereford),
mais ses centres les plus importants étaient à Hentland (Henllan) et Moccas dans
la vallée de Wye. Dubrice a attiré de nombreux disciples aux deux monastères,
et à partir d'eux, il fonda de nombreux monastères et églises.
Il a été associé à Saint
Illtud (Fêté au 6 Novembre) et, selon la "vita" du 7e siècle de
Saint-Samson, avec l'île de Caldey où il nomma Saint Samson (Fêté le Juillet)
higoumène du monastère. Plus tard, il consacra Samson évêque. Une inscription
ancienne, mais incomplète, à Caldey dit "Magl Dubr" ("le
serviteur tonsuré de Dubrice").
Dubrice et saint Deinol
(ou Daniel fêté le 11 Septembre) furent les deux prélats qui convainquirent
Saint David (Fêté le 1er Mars) d'assister au synode de Brefi. Dubrice passa les
dernières années de sa vie à Ynys Enlli (Bardsey) et y mourut.
[Dans les légendes
médiévales tardives, il devient l'archevêque de Caerleon (Caerlon-on-Usk) et,
selon Geoffroy de Monmouth, il couronne le "Roi" Arthur à Colchester
(il est le grand saint des "Idylles d'un roi"), et la politique
ecclésiastique du 12ème siècle le revendique comme fondateur du siège normand
de Llandaff, où il a été l'un des quatre saints titulaires de la cathédrale. La
"vita" tardive écrite par Benoît de Gloucester fait valoir que
Dubrice était un disciple de saint Germain d'Auxerre (Fêté le 31 Juillet), mais
c'est peu probable. La légende dit également que Saint-David a démissionné en
sa faveur comme métropolite du pays de Galles. ]
Les reliques de Saint
Dyfrig ont été transférées de Bardsey à Llandaff en 1120. Il est le
"Dubrice le grand saint, Chef de l'Eglise en Grande-Bretagne" de
"L'avènement d'Arthur" de Tennyson, et le toponyme Saint Devereux
dans le Herefordshire est une corruption du nom du saint.
La dédicace de l'Eglise
qui lui est consacrée à Gwenddwr (Powys) et Porlock (Somerset) donnent à penser
que ses disciples ont été actifs dans l'expansion du christianisme à l'ouest et
au sud-ouest, éventuellement en association avec la multitude des enfants de
Saint Brychan Brecknock (Fêté le 6 avril).
Dans l'art Saint Dubrice
est représenté tenant deux crosses et une croix archiépiscopale. Il est vénéré
dans le Herefordshire, le Monmouthshire, et dans l'île de Caldey Island
(appelée Ynys Byr en Gallois, d'après le nom d'un higoumène de son monastère).
Version française Claude
Lopez-Ginisty d'après
http://www.oodegr.com/english/biographies/arxaioi/Dyfrig_Wales.htm
SOURCE : http://orthodoxologie.blogspot.ca/2010/04/saint-dubrice-archeveque-de-caerlon.html
Stained
glass depiction of Dubricius, designed by William
Burges (2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881), at Castell
Coch, Cardiff
Also
known as
Dubricius of Caerleon
Dubricius of Llandaff
Devereux…
Dubric…
Dubrice…
Dubricio…
Dubricus…
Dubritius…
Dybrig…
Dyffryg…
Dyfrig…
9
February on some calendars
29 May (translation
of relics)
Profile
Related to Saint Brychan
of Brycheiniog. One of the founders of monastic life
in Wales.
He founded monasteries in
Gwent and England with
his main centers in Henllan and Moccas. Worked with Saint Teilo
of Llandaff and Saint Samson
of York who he appointed as abbot on
Caldey Island. Bishop of Llandaff, Wales,
consecrated in by Saint Germanus
of Auxerre. Archbishop of Caerleon, Wales,
a seat he turned over to Saint David
of Wales. In his later years he retired to the Isle
of Bardsey to live as a prayerful hermit.
Born
c.545 on
the Isle
of Bardsey, Wales of
natural causes
in England
in Wales
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Dubricius of
Wales“. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 January 2024. Web. 22 June 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-dubricius-of-wales/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-dubricius-of-wales/
St
Dubricius Church in Porlock, Somerset
St
Dubricius Church in Porlock, Somerset
Article
DUBRITIUS (DYFFRYG,
DEVEREUX) (Saint) Bishop (November 14) (6th century) A famous Welsh Saint, of
the race of Brychan and the founder of monachism in Wales. He was Bishop of
Llandaff and Archbishop of Caerleon, which latter See he resigned to the yet
more celebrated Saint David. Saint Dubritius is said to have been consecrated
Bishop of Saint Germanus of Auxerre. He died probably about the middle of the
sixth century, and, as it would appear, in the Isle of Bardsey, to which he had
retired in his old age. His relics were solemnly translated A.D. 1120.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Dubritius”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 18
November 2012.
Web. 22 June 2026. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-dubritius/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-dubritius/
St.
Dyfrig's Church, Treforest
St. Dubricus
Feastday: November 14
Death: 550
One of the founders of
monastic life in
Wales, also called Dubric, Dyfrig, or Devereux. He was born in Madley, Wales,
and he founded monasteries at Henllan and Moccas. These served as motherhouses
for other abbeys in Herefordshire, Gwent, and the Wye Valley.Dubricus also
ruled Caldrey Island. He appointed St. Samson abbot and
ordained him as a bishop. Dubricus spent the last years of his life at
Ynys Enlli. He is believed to have been the arch-bishop of Caerleon. He died
and was buried on the island of Bardsey.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2993
Church of St
Dyfrig and St Samson, Grangetown, Cardiff. "Crucifixion"
sculpture by Frank Roper in the foreground.
Dubricius B (AC)
(also known as Dubritius,
Dubric, Dyfig, Dyfrig, Devereux)
Born at Madley (?), near
Hereford; died c. 545. Saint Dyfrig was an important church leader, probably a
monk, in southeast Wales and western Herefordshire. His earliest foundation was
Ariconium (Archenfield, Hereford), but his most important centers were at
Hentland (Henllan) and Moccas in the Wye valley. Dyfrig attracted numerous
disciples to the two monasteries, and from them founded many other monasteries
and churches. He was associated with Saint Illtyd and, according to the
7th-century vita of Saint Samson, with the island of Caldey for whose monastery
he appointed Saint Samson (July 28) abbot. Later he consecrated Samson bishop.
An ancient, but incomplete, inscription at Caldey reads Magl Dubr ("the
tonsured servant of Dubricius").
Dyfrig and Saint Deinol
(Daniel) were the two prelates who convinced Saint David to attend the synod of
Brefi. Dyfrig spent the last years of his life at Ynys Enlli (Bardsey) and died
there.
In later medieval legends
he becomes the 'archbishop of Caerleon' (Caerlon-on-Usk) and, according to the
unreliable Geoffrey of Monmouth, crowns 'King' Arthur at Colchester (he is the
high saint of Idylls of a King), and the ecclesiastical politics of the 12th
century claimed him as founder of the Normans' see of Llandaff, where he was
one of the four titular saints of the cathedral.
The later vita written by
Benedict of Gloucester claims that Dyfrig was a disciple of Saint Germanus of
Auxerre, but this is unlikely. Legend also inaccurately states that Saint David
resigned in his favor as metropolitan of Wales.
The reputed relics of
Saint Dyfrig were translated from Bardsey to Llandaff in 1120. He is the
'Dubric the high saint, Chief of the church in Britain' of Tennyson's Coming of
Arthur, and the place-name Saint Devereux in Herefordshire is a corruption of
the saint's name.
Church dedications to him
at Gwenddwr (Powys) and Porlock (Somerset) suggest that his disciples were
active in the expansion of Christianity to the west and southwest, possibly in
association with the multitudinous children Saint Brychan of Brecknock
(Attwater, Benedictines, Doble, Delaney, Farmer).
In art Saint Dubricius is
depicted holding two croziers and an archiepiscopal cross. He is venerated in
Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Caldey Island (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1114.shtml
St.
Dubricius and All Saints church (Hamnish Clifford)
St. Dubric
(DYFRIG, DUBRICIUS)
Bishop and confessor,
one of the greatest of Welsh saints; d. 612. He is
usually represented holding two crosiers, which signify his jurisdiction over
the Sees of Caerleon and Llandaff. St. Dubric is
first mentioned in a tenth-century manuscript of the
"Annales Cambriae", where his death is assigned to the year 612. This
date appears also in the earliest life of the saint that has come
down to us. It was written about 1133, to record the translation of his relics, and is to be
found (in the form of "Lectiones") in the "Liber
Landavensis". It may contain some genuine traditions, but as it appeared
at least five hundred years after St. Dubric's death, it cannot claim to be
historical. According to this account he was the son (by an unnamed father) of
Eurddil, a daughter of Pebia Claforwg, prince of the region of Ergyng
(Erchenfield in Herefordshire), and was born at Madley on the River Wye. As a
child he was noted for his precocious intellect, and by the
time he attained manhood was already known as a scholar throughout Britain. He
founded a college at
Henllan (Hentland in Herefordshire), where he maintained two thousand clerks
for seven years. Thence he moved to Mochros (perhaps Moccas), on an island farther
up the Wye, where he founded an abbey. Later on he
became Bishop of Llandaff, but resigned
his see and
retired to the Isle of Bardsey, off the coast of Carnarvonshire. Here with his
disciples he lived as a hermit for many
years, and here he was buried. His body was translated by Urban, Bishop of Llandaff, to a tomb before the
Lady-altar in "the old monastery" of
the cathedral city,
which afterwards became the cathedral church of
St. Peter.
A few years after the
"Liber Landavensis" was written, there appeared the "Historia
Regum Britanniae" of Geoffrey of Monmouth,
and this romantic chronicle is the source of the later and more elaborate
legend of St. Dubric, which describes him as "Archbishop of Caerleon"
and one of the great figures of King Arthur's court. Benedict of Gloucester and
John de Tinmouth (as adapted by Capgrave) developed the fictions of Geoffrey,
but their accounts are of no historical value. There is no record of St.
Dubric's canonization.
The "Liber Landavensis" assigns his death to 14 November, but he was
also commemorated on 4 November. The translation of his body, which the same
authority assigns to 23 May, is more usually kept on 29 May.
Toke,
Leslie. "St. Dubric." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
5. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1909. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05179a.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John
M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2026 by New Advent LLC.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05179a.htm
St.
Dubricius' church, Hentland.
St.
Dubricius' church, Hentland.
HOW great soever the corruption of vice was which had sunk deep into the hearts of many in the degenerate ages of the ancient Britons before the invasion of the English Saxons, God raised amongst them many eminent saints, who, by their zealous exhortations and example, invited their countrymen by penance to avert the divine wrath which was kindled over their heads. One of the most illustrious fathers and instructors of these saints was St. Dubricius, who flourished chiefly in that part which is now called South-Wales. 1 He erected two great schools of sacred literature at Hentlan and Mochrhes, both places, situate upon the river Wye or Vaga, which waters Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Monmouthshire. In this place St. Samson, St. Theliau, and many other eminent saints and pastors of God’s church, were formed to virtue and the sacred ministry under the discipline of St. Dubricius; and persons of all ranks and conditions resorting to him from every part of Britain, he had a thousand scholars with him for years together. It was this great master’s first study, to cultivate well his own soul, and to learn the interior sentiments of all virtues by listening much to the Holy Ghost in close solitude and holy meditation on divine things. He was consecrated the first archbishop of Llandaff, by St. Germanus, in a synod about the year 444, and was afterwards constituted archbishop of Cærleon, which dignity he resigned to St. David in the synod of Brevi in 522. After this, St. Dubricius retired into the solitary island of Bardsey or Euly, on the coast of Cærnarvonshire, where he died and was buried: twenty thousand saints (that is, holy hermits and religious persons) are said in Camden and others to have been interred in that island. The bones of St. Dubricius were afterwards removed to Llandaff. See Alford’s Annals, Leland’s Itinerary, and St. Dubricius’s life, written, as some maintain, by St. Theliau’s own hand, in the Llandaff register. Also his life compiled by Benedict, a monk of Gloucester, in 1120, in Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, t. 2. p. 654.
Note 1. Sir William Dugdale, in his Antiquities of Warwickshire, tells us that St. Dubricius fixed his episcopal chair some time at Warwick; and that, during his residence there, the most agreeable solitude, since called Guy’s Cliff, on the side of a rock upon the banks of the Avon, about a mile from Warwick, was the place of his frequent retreats from the world, and that he there built the oratory which was dedicated, not in honour of St. Margaret, as Camden mistakes, but of St. Mary Magdalen. For this, our antiquarian quotes the rolls and a manuscript history of John Rous, or Ross, a nobleman, and famous chantry priest of this place in the days of Edward IV. in whose history, now published by Hearne, are found some curious anedcotes, but blended with many traditionary fables and groundless conjectures. Guy’s Cliff is so called from Guy, the famous English champion against the Danes, in the reign of King Athelstan, commonly called earl of Warwick, though the chief governor or magistrate was then usually called earldorman, the title of earl being introduced a little later by the Danes. His warlike exploits are obscured by having been made the subject of ballads and romances; which also happened to our great King Arthur, and to the famous outlaw and captain of robbers, Robin Hood, who ranged in Sherwood forest in the time of Richard I. Guy, after many gallant achievements, renounced his honours and riches, and led an austere poor life in this place, under the direction of an old virtuous hermit, who lived in a cell or cave which he had hewn in the side of this rock. Guy died in a neighbouring cell in the year 929, of his age the seventieth. Guy’s tower, at Warwick, was so called from Guy Beauchamp, earl of Warwick; and the curious monuments of other powerful earls who resided in that strong castle (which was very advantageous in the old civil wars, by its situation near the centre of England) are, by the vulgar, very falsely ascribed to this Guy, the champion, afterwards the palmer or pilgrim, and the hermit. Many hermits in succeeding times served God in this delightful solitude, and a great number of cells with innumerable crosses cut in the sides, in the hard rock, are still seen there. Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, founded at Guy’s Cliff, a chantry, which establishment was confirmed by Henry VI. The church is still standing; but serves for an open stable to shelter the cattle, which cover with ordure the very place where the high altar stood. In the nave two great stone statues are still standing, the one representing Guy, the other, Colborn, the Danish champion, whom he slew in a single combat near Winchester. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume XI: November. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/11/142.html
St
Dubricius in Holy Trinity Church, Abergavenny
Festa: 14 novembre
465 - 545
Vissuto verso la fine del
secolo V e l'inizio del VI, fu vescovo nel sud del paese del Galles. E' stato
considerato vescovo di Llandaff. E' il san Dyfrig degli abitanti del Galles,
festeggiato il 14 novembre.
Martirologio
Romano: Nell’isola di Bardsey sulla costa del Galles settentrionale, san
Dubricio, vescovo e abate.
San Dubricio è uno di quei santi gallesi la cui storia si perde tra elementi leggendari più che storici. Su di lui non abbiamo nemmeno l’esatta grafia del suo nome: Dubricio o Dybrig o Dyfrig o Dubric o Dubricius o Devereux.
San Dubricio è stato un vescovo gallese che Evangelizzò l’antico regno di Rrgyn, che si estendeva nella regione sud-orientale del Galles.
Si ritiene che Dubricio fosse il figlio illegittimo di Efrddyl, figlia di re Peibio Clafrog, nato nel 465. La tradizione vuole che il nonno, quando scoprì che la madre di Dubricio era incinta, per affogarla la gettò nel fiume Wye. Ma, re Peibio, non riuscì nell’impresa, tanto che Efrddyl diene alla luce il figlio a Madley nell’Herefordshire.
La tradizione ci racconta che il re e la figlia si riconciliarono, dopo che Dubricio, toccando il nonno, lo guarì dalla lebbra.
San Dubricio è considerato uno dei fondatori del monachesimo del Galles. Infatti, a lui sono ricondotte le fondazioni dei monasteri di Hentiland e Moccas.
Fu il maestro di vari santi, tra cui Telio, suo successore e Samson.
Si tramanda che avesse il dono dei miracoli, e che curò con la sola imposizione delle sue mani, molte persone ammalate.
Secondo la tradizione Dubricio fu nominato vescovo del territorio dell’Ergyng. Dai più è indicato come vescovo di Llandaff consacrato, si presume, da san Germano di Auxerre. Llandaff era La diocesi si estendeva nella regione sud-orientale del Galles, nell'antico regno di Ergyng, oggi un sobborgo di Cardiff, dove si trova la cattedrale dedicata ai Santi Pietro e Paolo, oltre che ai tre santi gallesi Dubricio, Telio e Odoceo.
San Dubricio è stato vescovo, forse più allo scopo di ordinare sacerdoti, che con funzione di capo amministrativo della chiesa su un'area geografica.
Infatti, si tramanda che fu lui a consacrare vescovo San Sansone di Dol. Ottant’enne presiedette il Sindodo di Llanddewi Brefi nel 545, nel quale si sarebbero discusse le regole per la penitenza. A quel sinodo San Dubricio avrebbe rassegnato le dimissioni da vescovo.
Nella cronologia della diocesi di Llandaff gli successe san Telio, che, di fatto viene ritenuto il primo vero vescovo della diocesi.
Dopo le sue dimissioni, si ritirò sull'isola di Bardsey, dove visse come monaco
e morì, poco dopo nel 545. Fu sepolto nell’isola, prima che il suo corpo fosse
trasferito nella cattedrale di Llandaff nel 1120.
La sua festa nel martirologio romano ricorre nel giorno 14 novembre.
Autore: Mauro Bonato
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/77570
St
Dubricius, Whitchurch
San Dubricio de
Bardsey, abad y obispo
En la isla de Bardsey, en
la costa de Cambria septentrional, san Dubricio, obispo y abad.
Fue uno de los más grandes santos de Gales. Usualmente se lo representa llevando dos báculos, que significan su jurisdicción sobre las sedes de Llandaff y de Carlión. San Dubric es mencionado por primera vez en un manuscrito del siglo décimo de los «Annales Cambriae», donde su muerte se asigna al año 612. Esta fecha también aparece en la primera «Vida» del santo que ha llegado hasta nosotros, escrita hacia el 1133, para registrar el traslado de sus reliquias, que se encuentra en el «Liber Landavensis». Aunque esta «Vida» puede contener algunas tradiciones auténticas, al ser al menos quinientos años posterior a la muerte del santo, no se puede pretender demasiada historicidad.
Según se cuenta allí, era hijo (de padre no identificado) de Eurddil, hija de Pebia Claforwg (príncipe de la región de Ergyng -Erchenfield en Herefordshire-), y nació en Madley, en el Río Wye. De niño destacó por su inteligencia precoz, y cuando alcanza la edad adulta ya es conocido como un erudito en toda Gran Bretaña. Fundó un colegio en Henllan (Hentland, en Herefordshire), donde mantuvo dos mil clérigos durante siete años. Desde allí se trasladó a Mochros (quizás Moccas), en una isla más al norte de Wye, donde fundó una abadía. Más tarde llegó a ser obispo de Llandaff, pero renunció a su sede y se retiró a la isla de Bardsey, frente a la costa de Carnarvonshire. Aquí, con sus discípulos, vivió como un ermitaño durante muchos años, y aquí fue enterrado. Su cuerpo fue trasladado por Urbano, Obispo de Llandaff, a una tumba antes el altar de la Virgen en «el antiguo monasterio» de la ciudad episcopal, que posteriormente se convirtió en la iglesia catedral de San Pedro.
Pocos años después del
«Liber Landavensis», apareció la «Historia Regum Britanniae» de Godofredo de
Monmouth, y esta crónica romántica es la fuente de la tardía y más elaborada
leyenda de san Dubric, que lo describe como «Arzobispo de Caerleon» y una de
las grandes figuras de la Corte del Rey Arturo. El «Liber Landavensis» asigna
su muerte al 14 de noviembre, pero también ha sido conmemorado el 4 del mismo
mes. El traslado de su cuerpo, que la misma fuente asigna al 23 de mayo, es más
usualmente fijado el 29 de mayo.
fuente: Catholic
Encyclopedia
SOURCE : https://evangeliodeldia.org/SP/display-saint/f3b6239a-e6db-46fc-ae1f-dcf840d578d3
St. Dyfrig, Bishop
of Ergyng (Died c. 550 or 612) (Latin: Dubricius; English: Devereux) : https://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/dyfrig.html
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