This saint, dedicated to God from his infancy by his parents, was
reared in Christian principles under the inspection of his uncle
Saint Theliau, bishop of Landaff; and succeeded him in this see
about the year 580.[17] Mauric, king of Glamorgan, held him in the
highest veneration, and assisted him in all his endeavors to promote
the glory of God; being however excommunicated by the saint for
assassinating a prince called Cynedu, he, by his humble submission
and penance, was at length restored to the communion of the Church.
St. Oudoceus dying about the end of the sixth century, is mentioned
in the English Calendars on the 2d of July. See Usher, Antiquit.
Britan. p. 291; Wharton, Anglia Sacra, t. 2, p. 669; Alford, in
Annal. and Lobineau, Vies des SS. de Bretagne, p. 89.