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Non (also Nonna or Nonnita) was, according to Christian tradition, the mother of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales. ==Legend== The ''Life of St David'', a ''vita'' written around 1095 by Rhigyfarch, is our main source of knowledge for both St David (died c. 589) and his mother. Rhigyfarch was a Norman cleric whose father had been Bishop of St David's for 10 years.〔''An Essential Guide to Celtic Sites and their Saints'', Rees, Elizabeth, Burns & Oates, 2003, pp. 208-209.〕 Tradition holds that Nonita was raped, and that the product of that rape was David--she was "unhappily seized and exposed to the sacrilegious violence of one of the princes of the country". Rhigyfarch recounts the tradition that the rapist was Sanctus, King of Ceredigion, who came upon Non while travelling through Dyfed (in South Wales). After conceiving, Nonita, who kept celibacy both before and afterwards, lived on bread and water alone. When a preacher found himself unable to preach in the presence of her unborn child, this was taken as a sign that the child would himself be a great preacher. A local ruler learned of this pregnancy and feared the power of the child to be born. He plotted to kill it upon birth, but on the day of her labour a great storm made it impossible for anyone to travel outdoors. Only the place where Nonita groaned with birth-pangs was bathed in light. The pain was said to have been so intense that her fingers left marks as she grasped a rock and the stone itself split asunder in sympathy with her. On the place of David's birth, a church was built, and this stone is now concealed in the foundations of the altar. Variations on her story state that: * Non may have been the daughter of the nobleman Cynyr of Caer Goch (in Pembrokeshire).〔Nash Ford, David, (St. Non ) in ''Early British Kingdoms'', 2001, accessed 17 October 2012.〕 * The chieftain who fathered David may have been named Xantus,〔''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', Cassell 2001, p. 321.〕 Sandde〔(The early life of David ), BBC Local History Page, archived version from 10 January 2008 accessed 17 October 2012.〕 or Sant.〔''An Essential Guide to Celtic Sites and their Saints'', Rees, Elizabeth, Burns & Oates, 2003, pp. 224-225.〕 (Rees points out that names meaning 'Holy' and 'Nun' might be seen as fitting for the parents of a great saint.)〔 * Non may have become married to Sant before David's birth or after the birth of the saint.〔Rabenstein, Katherine I., ''Saint of the Day'' Summaries prepared in 1989, (), accessed 17 October 2012.〕 * She brought the boy up at Henfeynyw near Aberaeron and founded a convent nearby at what is now called Llanon (the village being named after her).〔 * Subsequently, Non may have travelled to Cornwall and ultimately ended her days in a Breton convent.〔 * In some sources, Non is commemorated as a male companion of David.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saint Non」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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