The Man, the Myth, the Saint: Gildas the Wise

The Man, the Myth, the Saint: Gildas the Wise

January 29 marks the feast of St. Gildas, who was a 6th century monk from Brittany. He is venerated in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. What is fiction and what is fact sometimes becomes blurred in the telling of many saints’ stories from the...