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The family of Vortigern, which continued to hold Powys in the early medieval period, produced numerous saints. Although they largely refrained from missionizing among the Germans, Welsh refugees and missionaries were responsible for the Christianization of Ireland [3] and Brittany. [4] The title of "saint" was used quite broadly in the Celtic ...
Medieval Welsh saints (6 C, 127 P) R. Welsh Roman Catholic saints (1 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Welsh saints" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Samson of Dol (also Samsun; born c. late 5th century) was a Welsh saint, who is also counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany with Pol Aurelian, Tugdual or Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern (Paternus) and Corentin. Born in southern Wales, he died in Dol-de-Bretagne, a small town in north Brittany, and was the nephew of Athrwys ap Meurig.
Dydd Santes Dwynwen (IPA: [ˈdɨːð ˈsantɛs ˈdʊɨnwɛn]; Welsh for St Dwynwen's Day) is considered the Welsh equivalent of Valentine's Day and is celebrated on 25 January, in honour of Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers. [15] Calendars from the fifteenth century and later assign her feast day to 25 January.
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 Cadoc or Cadog (Medieval Latin: Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; born c. 497 [2] or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.
640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, [1] making that date his traditional feastday. In the current Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for Wales, [2] he is commemorated on 20 April, the 21st being designated for Saint Anselm. [3]
1 All Saints; 2 The Commemoration of All Souls; 3 The Martyrs and Confessors of our Time; 3 Winifred (7th century), Abbess; 4 The Saints and Martyrs of the Anglican Communion; 5 Cybi (6th century), Abbot; 6 Illtud (5th century), Abbot; 7 Richard Davies (1581), Bishop and Translator; 8 The Saints of Wales; 10 Leo (461), Bishop and Doctor; 11 ...