Arwystl

Venerable Arwystl appears in late Welsh genealogies under three or four figures. Arwystl Hen (the Aged) is said to have come from Italy as confessor to Bran ab Llyr, to teach the faith of Christ in Britain; the old identification with Aristobulus, named by the Apostle Paul, has no basis. Arwystl, a son of Cunedda Wledig, gave his name to the district of Arwystli, but there is no evidence that he was a saint. Arwystl Gloff (the Lame), one of the ten sons of Seithenin, is said to have been a monk at Bangor on Dee and then at Bardsey, and to have had seven children by Tywanwedd, daughter of Amlawdd Wledig. In the older genealogies he is only the father of saints. The veneration belongs to the undivided Church.