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Died 716; feast day in Norwich and Roscarrock is August 30. A 15th-century "vita" tells us that Saint Decuman was a Welsh monk from Rhoscrowther (Llandegyman), Pembrokeshire (Dyfed), who settled as a hermit near Dunster in Somersetshire, where he was beheaded by an assassin while in prayer. The legend continues that he carried his own head to a nearby well. He appears to have had a well-established cultus in Cornwall, Wales, and Somerset, where there are dedications in his honour. He is the patron of Watchet and Saint Decumans in Somerset, England (Benedictines, Farmer).

In art, Saint Decuman is portrayed as hermit holding a processional cross (Roeder).


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