Fagan

Who is Fagan?

Fagan was a possibly legendary 2nd-century saint, recorded as proselytizing Roman Britain.

According to the 12th-century William of Malmesbury, Fagan was sent to Britain with his companions in the second half of the second century by Pope Eleutherius. One of the companions was named Damian. The pair were traditionally associated with the probably legendary King Lucius. Mullins suggests that, given the absence of surviving evidence for the founders of Christianity in Roman Britain, legends were attached to those names which had survived, and this is what has happened in the case of St. Fagan.

St. Fagan's name is preserved by a village near Cardiff and a parish church in Aberdare.

In Britain's medieval liturgies, St. Fagan was celebrated with Dyfan at Glastonbury on 3 January and by himself in Llandaff on 10 February. The Eastern Orthodox diocese of Thyateira and Great Britain keeps the memory of Saints Fagan and Dyfan, together with Pope Eleutherius, on 26 May.