The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy ... : from all which is evidently demonstrated that the present Roman Catholick religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this our island, &c. / by R.F., S. Cressy of the Holy Order of S. Benedict.
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The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy ... : from all which is evidently demonstrated that the present Roman Catholick religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this our island, &c. / by R.F., S. Cressy of the Holy Order of S. Benedict.
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Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.
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[Rouen :: For the author],
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Great Britain -- Church history -- 449-1066.
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"The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy ... : from all which is evidently demonstrated that the present Roman Catholick religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this our island, &c. / by R.F., S. Cressy of the Holy Order of S. Benedict." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34964.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.
1.2. &c. S. Sophias a Brittish Martyr, and Bishop of Beneventum.
1. IN our English Martyrologe on the four and twentieth of Ianuary there is a commemoration of a Brittish Saint and Martyr call'd S. Sophias:* 1.2 whose death is assi∣gned to the four hundred and ninetieth year of our Lord.
2. This S. Sophias was the Son of Guil∣leicus
Prince of the Ordovices, or Northwales.
He undertook a Monasticall Profession in a Monastery built by himself in the same Province. It is written of him that he had such devotion to our Lords Passion, that he made three pilgrimages to Ierusalem to visit the marks and footsteps of it. He had like∣wise a great Veneration to Rome, and those
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places which had been consecrated by the blood and Martyrdom of the two Princes of the Apostles.
3. At his being there S. Felix, or his Pre∣decessour S. Simplicius sate in the Apostles Chair: By whom he was consecrated Bishop of Beneventum. Which See he governed with prudence and Sanctity, till at last he was slain by an impious Pagan whilst he was at the holy Altar celebrating the Mystery of our Redemption.
4. This Saint Sophias, was by another name call'd Cadocus,* 1.3 being the same who gave advice to Saint Iltutus to forsake a secular life, as hath been already declared. And he is to be distinguish'd from another Saint Cadocus, who was an Abbot: concer∣ning whom we shall treat in the year of Grace five hundred.