Saint Caedwalla
- Also known as
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Caedwalla of Wales;
Cadwallader;
Cadwallador;
Peter
- Memorial
- 20 April
- Profile
- Descendent of King Ceawlin of Wessex.
Exiled, but later returned to reclaim the throne by right, and by warfare.
King of Wessex, which he expanded by conquest, annihilating the pagan residents of the Isle of Wight in the process in order to colonize it with his own people.
Converted in 688 by Saint Wilfrid after being wounded in combat on the Isle of Wight.
He abdicated, and went to Rome for baptism on 10 April 689 by Pope Saint Sergius I, taking the name Peter.
He died ten days later, still wearing his white baptism robe.
- Died
- 20 April 689 at Rome, Italy;
body in a crypt at Saint Peter's Basilica
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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converts,
murderers
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