Gwenafwy Explained

Saint Gwenafwy (Wenappa) (fl. 6th c.) was a pre-congregational saint of medieval South Wales.[1] She was a daughter of Caw of Strathclyde,[2] [3] and sister of Peillan, Eigron and Peithein among others.[4] She went to Cornwall with her brother Eigron where she is the patroness of Gwennap.[5]

Her feast day is 1 July.[6]

References

Notes and References

  1. Rev. Rice Rees, Welsh Saints or Primitive Christians usually considered to be Founders of Churches in Wales (Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1836) page 230 .
  2. Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians ... founders of churches in Wales (Google eBook)(Longman,1836) page 230.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=7OU5AQAAMAAJ&dq=Saint+Gwenafwy&pg=PA827 A Dictionary of Christian Biography, (William Smith, Henry Wace, eds.) Little, Brown, 1880, p. 827
  4. D. D. Jones, The early Cymry and their church (Google eBook) (W. Spurrell & Son, 1910) page 88.
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=7AdKAAAAYAAJ&dq=Saint+Gwenafwy&pg=PA368 Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association
  6. https://archive.org/stream/livesofsaintswi16bariuoft/livesofsaintswi16bariuoft_djvu.txt The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work

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