Bodfan

Saint Bodfan was a Welsh saint of the seventh century, the son of Helig ap Glanawg. He is the patron of Aber (Llanaber) in Gwynedd, in north-⁠west Wales.

According to tradition, he saw the sea overwhelm his family's lands and became a monk, first on the island of Bardsey. Later he built the first church at Llanaber. His brothers Brothen, Celynin and Rhychwyn are also counted as saints, and churches in Gwynedd and Conwy bear their names.

Bodfan is the patron of several churches in Gwynedd, among them those at Llanaber and Abergwyngregyn. Near Llanaber stand two large stones with Latin inscriptions of the fifth and sixth centuries, which local people call Saint Bodfan's Stones. He is commemorated on 2 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.