Gwen Teirbron (French: Blanche; Latin: Alba Trimammis or Candida; possibly English: Wite) was a Breton holy woman and wife of Fragan who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is Welsh for '(of the) three breasts'.
Veneration Popular devotion interpreted Gwen's unusual physical and spiritual fecundity by God's gift to her of a third breast. Her iconography followed suit. Gwen is invoked for women's fertility. She is commemorated on 3 October in the Roman Catholic Church (although this has been transferred from Saint Candidus of Rome), and on 18 July (NS) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.Canberra Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad). Brief Lives of Saints, 2007.
Children Winwaloe, son of Prince Fragan (or Fracan) and TeirbronButler, Alban. The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 1, p. 275 (Henry & Co. 1857).Baring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. 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). Jacut (or James), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron Wethenoc (or Gwethenoc or Guethenoc), son of Prince Fragan and Teirbron Creirwy (or Creirvy or Klervi), daughter of Prince Fragan and Teirbron Cadfan, son of Eneas Ledewig (or Aeneas of Brittany) and TeirbronBaring-Gould, Sabine and Fisher, John. 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).
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