Kadog : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

where a certain prior is warned of the coming of a "western Briton" who is to be renamed Sophias; as ''Sophias'' Cadoc becomes abbot, bishop and martyr. A ''[[Basilica|magna basilica]]'' was erected over his shrine, which visiting Britons were not allowed to enter. And a fictitious "Pope Alexander" is made to figure in the narrative. Tatlock points out that Alexander was an obscure second-century papal name until the accession of [[Pope Alexander II]] (1061) and that Beneventum in southern Italy became more prominent after it was traded to the papacy in 1051 and popes began to visit it regularly and councils were held there in 1087 and 1091; but ''Beneventum'' has been associated with the Roman town of [[Bannaventa]] (five kilometers east of [[Daventry]] in [[Northamptonshire]])<ref>"Certain innocent moderns, anxious to extract the uttermost farthing of historical truth from this yarn, have tried to identify 'Beneventana civitas' with some place in Britain," Tatlock observed and pointed out that the circular Lombard church in Beneventum was dedicated to Saint Sophias, "a scarce name among saints. The inference is obvious that some Welsh visitor to Benevento had found there some name or anecdote to excuse the attractive invention that Cadoc had been there and was Sofia." (Tatlock 1939:346).</ref> on the edge of [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] territory in Britain. This latter hypothesis proposes that it was overrun by Saxons at this time, thus explaining both the killing of Cadoc and the prohibition on Britons entering the town to recover his body.▼