{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix= Saint |name= Fragan |birth_date= |death_date=5th century |feast_day=3 October (in Brittany)<br />5 July (Catholic Church) |venerated_in=Catholic Church<br />Western Orthodoxy |image= |imagesize= |caption= |birth_place=Scotland |death_place= |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }}
'''Fragan''' was a 5th-century pre-Congregational saint and Prince of Scotland. He is celebrated on 3 October in the Calendar of the Breton Saints,<ref name="grandterrier">{{cite web|url=http://www.grandterrier.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:Almanak_Octobre|title=Modèle:Almanak octobre|website=GrandTerrier|accessdate=2017-10-11|archive-date=13 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013095045/http://grandterrier.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:Almanak_Octobre|url-status=dead}}</ref> and shares with Gwen a feast day on 5 July in the Roman Calendar.
Fragan came from Great Britain, and was a Prince of Albany in Scotland. In the 5th century, he left Scotland to evangelize Armorica.
==Biography==
=== Family background === He was the husband of Gwenn and father of the twins Jacut<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 /> and Guethenoc,<ref name=Butler /><ref name=Baring3 /> of Guénolé, and of Creirwy, Winwaloe,<ref>William Hone, The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular amusements (William Hone, 1837) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yxH3Vm9FcsYC&dq=st+Fragan&pg=PA281 p281].</ref> son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and Teirbron.<ref name=Butler>Butler, Alban. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=F4oEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275 The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints]'', volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).</ref><ref name=Baring3>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. ''[https://archive.org/details/livesofbritishsa03bariuoft The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 3, p. 38 (1911).</ref> He is also a cousin of Riwall and stepfather to Cadfan, son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and Teirbron.<ref>Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=-G4AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain]'', Volume 2, p. 9 (C. J. Clark, 1908).</ref>
=== Later life === He left Britain and moved to Ploufragan (Côtes-d'Armor) towards the end of the 4th century or perhaps as late as 418 AD.<ref>Ancien nom parfois attribué au vent, en particulier au mistral, mais ici au vent de noroît</ref><ref>Moine Clément, ''Vie de saint Gwennolé confesseur'', dite ''Vie brève'', vers 860</ref> There, he settled in the Sang River valley. He was the founder of the castle of Lesguen, in the present commune of Plouguin.<ref name="infobretagne">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobretagne.com/saint-fregant.htm|website=infobretagne.com|title=Saint-Frégant : Histoire, Patrimoine, Noblesse (commune du canton de Lesneven)|accessdate=2017-10-11}}</ref><ref name="infobretagne2">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobretagne.com/plounevez-prieure-lochrist.htm|title=Prieuré de Lochrist-an-Izelvet (ou Izelvez) en Plounévez-Lochrist (Finistère - Bretagne)|website=infobretagne.com|accessdate=2017-10-11}}</ref>
Fragan is also known for having amassed a small army in haste to repel a larger force of pagan pirates at the battle of Lochrist.<ref>Albert Le Grand, La vie, gestes, mort et miracles des Saints de la Bretagne Armorique, ensemble un catalogue des évêques des neuf eveschés d'icelle, 1659,</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
Category:5th-century Christian saints Category:5th-century Scottish people Category:Scottish saints Category:Armorica