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Grandmother of Saints David and Cybi: Seiriol: 6th century: Penmon Puffin Island: 1 February (trad. [13]) Descended from Cunedda, king of Gwynedd: Brother of Saints Einion Frenin and Meirion Abbot at Penmon: Sidwell or Sativola 6th century: Exeter, Devon 31 July: Sister of Saints Juthwara and Wulvela: Silin or Giles 1 September or 1 Oct or 27 ...
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.
Brioc (Breton: Brieg; Welsh: Briog; Cornish: Breock; French: Brieuc; died c. 502) was a 5th-century Welsh holy man who became the first abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. [1] He is one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. [2]
Fagan (Latin: Faganus; Welsh: Ffagan), also known by other names including Fugatius, was a legendary 2nd-century Welsh bishop and saint, said to have been sent by the pope to answer King Lucius's request for baptism and conversion to Christianity. Together with his companion St Deruvian, he was sometimes reckoned as the apostle of Britain ...
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]
Cenydd's feast day is celebrated at Llangennith on 5 July. Up to the early twentieth century the festival was traditionally marked by the displaying of an effigy of a bird from a pole on the church tower, symbolising the legendary birds who cared for the infant Cenydd, and the consumption of whitepot or 'milked meat' a dish made of flour, milk, sugar and dried fruits, not unlike a rice pudding ...
St Teilo may have been known as Eliau or Eilliau in Old Welsh. [2] He was born at Penalun (Penally) around the year 500. [4] Teilo's father is usually identified as Ensich ap Hydwn, [5] and he was thought to be the brother of Anowed, and the uncle of Saints Ismael and Euddogwy. [6]