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Saint Forbadil, also known as Morbadil or Mórbuidéal, was a seventh-century saint of the Celtic Church. He was reported to have been of an enormous size and his name means "large vessel or bottle" in Ancient Irish. Forbadil founded a hermitage deep in the then marshlands known as The Moggs, near present day Lichfield, Staffordshire. His life and death were suppressed by the later Roman Catholic Church, whose scribes like the Venerable Bede championed the cult of St. Chad. This was to disassociate with the Celtic Church, which had looked to the Irish monastery of Iona, in modern day Scotland, as its source. St. Forbadil is sometimes represented with the head of a dog. ==Early life and the Celtic Church== It is attested that Forbadil, born in 620, was the son of a King of Brega, a petty kingdom north of Dublin, in medieval Ireland. He was educated at Bangor Abbey, in County Down, established by St. Comgall in 588 and famous for its learning and austere rule. The Celtic (or Insular) Church refers to those commonly held features across the Celtic speaking world during the Middle Ages. The Celtic Church was less autonomous than the Roman Catholic Church. It was more comfortable in dealing with the ancient Celtic religion, being more connected to nature, friendlier to women and more spiritual. The Celtic tonsure differed from that of the Roman Catholic Church, being shaved from ear to ear at the front of the head, but grown long at the back. There was also a unique system of penance known as ''peregrinato pro Cristo'' (going into exile for Christ). Forbadil chose the remote marshlands near present day Lichfield for his hermitage in 653, within the Kingdom of Mercia, where the Celtic Church remained strong. The barking of wolves in this lonely area perhaps gave rise to the myth of Forbadil being cynocephalic (dog-headed). 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「St Forbadil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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