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* 1.1VII. CHAP.
1.2. &c. Of Saints in Wales: of S Daniel Bishop of Bangor.
1. WHilst most of the Provinces of that part of Brittany afterward call'd En∣gland, were thus miserably disquietted, the Western parts, since call'd Wales, enjoyd great repose, and were illustrated by far more glo∣rious Exploits of great numbers of Saints who flourish'd there: Such were S. Dubri∣cius, S. Sampson, S. David, S. Thelian, S. Kined, S. Paternus, S. Daniel, S. Iustinian. &c. Some of these have been already mention'd, and more of their Gests will follow.
2. As touching S. Daniel he is reported by Bishop Vsher from Bale to have instituted a Colledge or Monastery of the Apostolick order for the sacred Exercices of learned and pious men.* 1.2 The place where this Colledge was founded was in Arvonia the countrey of the Venedati, not far from the streit where men passe into the Isle of Anglesey out of Wales: which Colledge he call'd the Port or Haven. And the time of this new Erection was the year of our Lord five hundred and Sixteen. In the same place not long after Malgo Conan built a Citty, which for the beauty of its situation he called Bancor, or Bangor, where likewise was the seat of a Bishop, in which this S. Daniel was the first who sate. So that it is a mistake in B. Godwin affirming that before the times of the Normans there had been no Bishop there.
3. This Citty of Bangor was a place distinct from the famous Monastery of that name, though Malmsburiensis confounds them to∣gether. True it is that in both places there was a Monastery: But this was seated in the Province call'd Arvonia, now Caernarvon upon the River Menai dividing it from An∣glesey: Wheras the other was in Flintshire. Again this Monastery was first erected by S. Daniel; wheras the other was extant even in the infancy of Christianity under King Lu∣cius, as hath been shewn. In both of them there lived Monks, called by Bale (Apostolici ordinis viri) men of the Order Apostolicall, be∣cause in imitation of the Apostles they pra∣ctis'd self-abnegation and a renouncing of temporall possessions.
4. This Holy man Daniel, saith Pits from Leland, was joynd with S. Dubricius and Da∣vid in confuting and condemning the Pela∣gian Heresy, for which purpose he was present at the Synod of Brevi. He dyed in the same year of Grace five hundred forty four in which the holy Bishop S. David dyed. And he was buried in the Isle of Berdesey, calld the Rome of Brittany, for the multitude of Saints there liuing and buried▪ in which regard, saith B. Vsher, it is still in the Welsh language calld Yr ugain mil Saint.* 1.3 He is commemorated in our ancient Martyrologe on the tenth of De∣cember. Who succeeded him in that Bishop∣rick it does not appeare.