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  • fl. 6th century
  • Saint-Méen abbey
Cornish saint whose cult spread across both Cornwall and Brittany. In Cornwall, he is primarily associated with the foundation at Padstow (Lanwethenek), which relocated to Bodmin; in Brittany, with the community of Saint-Méen.

Petrovskaia (Natalia I.) See: Natalia I. Petrovskaia

  • s. xx–xxi
  • d. 1706
Abbé Paul Yves Pezron, Breton Cistercian cleric and scholar; author of Antiquité de la nation, et de langue des celtes (1703).

Philagrius See: Philargyrius

Late-antique author of Virgilian commentaries, on the Eclogues and probably the Georgics, that are now preserved in medieval recensions.
Welsh author, linguist and private tutor to the children of George II.
  • 1856–1937
  • Oxford, Christ Church
British scholar.
  • 1792–1872
Sir Thomas Phillipps, English antiquary and collector of manuscripts