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Collen
6th-century Welsh saint
SaintDate unknown
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Collen was a 7th-century monk who gave his name to Llangollen (from the Welsh llan meaning 'enclosure' and gollen being a mutation of "Collen").
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- A Menology of England and Wales (Richard Stanton, 1887), 21 May — "At Llangollen, in Denbighshire, the festival of St. Gollen, or Collen, the patron of that place, whose name is found in an ancient Calendar on this day."
- Wikidata Q3398167 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Collen (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.