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Pages in category "Female saints of medieval Wales" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Female saint Einion Frenin: 5th century 6th century: Llanengan: 9 or 10 February (trad. [13]) Descendant of Cunedda, king of Gwynedd "Einion the King": King of Llyn (& possibly Anglesey) Brother of Saints Meirion and Seiriol: Elaeth or Eleth 6th century: Amlwch: 10 or 11 November (trad. [16]) King of a realm in northern Britain who fled to ...
Melangell and Winefride are the only two Welsh female saints to have Latin hagiographies. [1] Melangell's cult likely flourished locally for centuries before the Historia was written; the Romanesque shrine and church built over her grave indicate that her cult had become established in Pennant Melangell by the 12th century, with her grave being ...
Saint Winifred (or Winefride; Welsh: Gwenffrewi; Latin: Wenefreda, Winifreda) was a Welsh virgin martyr of the 7th century. Her story was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her hagiography was first written down.
Female saints of medieval Wales (1 C, 30 P) P. ... Pages in category "Medieval Welsh saints" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
This was also the name of a 6th-century Breton saint from Wales, daughter of Saint Gwen the Triple-Breasted and sister of the great regional saint Winwaloe.According to hagiographies of Winwaloe, Saint Creirwy (Latin: Creirvia; Breton: Klervi) as a young girl had one or both eyes gouged out by a wild goose, but Winwaloe retrieved the eyeball(s) from the gander's belly and returned it/them to ...
St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo (built in 1856 to replace a medieval church also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo). Gwenllwyfo was a Christian woman recognised as a saint. She is commemorated in the dedication of two churches near Dulas, Anglesey, in Wales: St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo (built 1856) and its medieval predecessor, the Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo, which is ...
Saint Elen (Welsh: Elen Luyddog, lit. "Helen of the Hosts"), often anglicized as Helen, was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales.Although never formally canonized by Rome, Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; in English she is sometimes known as Saint Helen of Caernarfon to distinguish her from Saint Helena ("Helen of Constantinople").