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Saint Gwen Teirbron (French: Blanche; Latin: Alba Trimammis or Candida; possibly English: Wite) was a Breton holy woman, daughter of Emyr Llaydaw and wife of Saint Fragan who supposedly lived in the 5th or 6th century. Her epithet is Welsh for '(of the) three breasts'.)

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 and in particular became recognized as the patron saint of nursing mothers, sharing characteristics with an earlier Celtic deity. Ritual offerings of flax and a distaff were believed to ensure a new mother's adequate milk production. She is commemorated on 1 June in the Catholic Church as St. Candida (not to be confused with other Catholic saints of the same name ), and on 18 July (NS) by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in Australia.