Gwyddfarch

Gwyddfarch

Gwyddfarch

English Roman Catholic saint

Gwyddfarch was a hermit and founder of a Celtic abbey at Meifod in Wales.[1] He was a son of Amalarius and disciple of St. Llywelyn at Welshpool. About 550 AD he founded a monastery[2] at Meifod. This establishment became the mother church of several other monasteries and was a centre of the order for over one thousand years, and within a generation the monastery had become a centre of pilgrimage.

Gwyddfarch taught Tysilio,[3] who replaced him as abbot.[4][5]

Legend holds that near the end of his life Tysilio talked the aging abbot out of a pilgrimage to Rome.[6] He is commemorated on 3 November.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    St. Gwyddfarch, Hermit of Moel yr Ancr, Wales.
  2. [2]
    Saint Tysilio and St marys Church.
  3. [3]
    Elizabeth Rees, Celtic Sites and Their Saints: A Guidebook (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003), p. 121.
  4. [4]
    Llandysilio - St. Tysilio's Church, Anglesey History
  5. [5]
    "Parish Church of St Tysilio and St Mary, Meifod". British Listed Buildings.
  6. [6]
    Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of North Wales(Library of Alexandria, 2016).
  7. [7]
    St. Gwyddfarch, Hermit of Moel yr Ancr, Wales.
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