Petroc, Abbot of Padstow
23 May -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Religious, page 494
Often known as 'the captain of Cornish saints', Petroc seems
to have been the son of a Welsh chieftain who, on arrival in
Cornwall, founded a monastery at Lanwethinoc, now called
Padstow (from Petroc's Stow), and later on another at
Bodmin. Most of his life, however, seems to have been lived
as a hermit, though he travelled regularly to visit
monasteries. He died at Treravel and was buried at Padstow.
Many churches in Devon and Cornwall are dedicated to his
memory.