Several biographies of Celtic priests and monks, upon whom the Welsh and Britons rely, describe him as a monarch, although they also somewhat freely bestowed the title of saint. In more than one of the biographies, however, Arthur is called a tyrant king and presented as a ruler with little respect for the church, or as a rex rebellus, who remains committed to evil until converted by some miracle worked by a saint whose holy career is presented for the reader’s admiration. Although few of these tales about Arthur are credible, they show that the monks who wrote them realized any connection
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