by Percy E. Corbett - friendsofsabbath.org

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"Our researches have thus led us to an important discovery, which promises to throw new light
on the history of the Celtic peoples in the fifth and sixth centuries. South Wales during this
period was covered with flourishing monasteries, founded in many cases by members of
the princely houses of Brycheiniog, Ceredigion and Dyfed who had become monks. A great
expansion of monasticism followed, and monasteries were founded all over the north of
Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, and in Brittany. Padstow, as being a key position on the
ancient trade route from Wales and Ireland across the Cornish peninsula to the continent,
played a very important part in this development of missionary enterprise."